Corbevax Vaccine 101 with Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi and Dr. Peter Hotez

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CORBEVAX is a patent-free, low-cost coronavirus vaccine created in Houston, which is being used across the world to vaccinate low income countries. 

I’m joined by Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi who created the vaccine here in Texas and are working on getting it distributed. 

They’ve just been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and have come to talk to us about Corbevax vaccine, how it’s changing the world, and the lives they’re saving. 

“If we hadn’t come to Texas, I can promise you there’d be no Covid vaccine, and that’s a side of Texas that people don’t hear about.” - Dr. Peter Hotez


Time Stamps:

00:00 - Introducing our guests and their new vaccine Corbevax. 
08:49 - What Corbevax is and how it’s different from a mRNA vaccine. 
12:39 - Why it’s important to create a vaccine that can be developed anywhere in the world. 
14:26 - How the starter kit for the Corbevax vaccine is distributed so that countries can develop the vaccine themselves. 
20:15 - What it feels like to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. 
21:44 - Why making vaccines is different from making drugs and why the manufacturing of Corbevax is different from other Covid vaccines. 
24:36 - The role that academics and universities have in vaccine development. 
26:56 - Why Dr. Bottazzi and Dr. Hotez came to Texas to develop this vaccine. 
30:20 - How long mRNA vaccines have been around and the advantages and disadvantages they have. 
32:38 - The amount of fear some people have towards mRNA vaccines. 
33:39 - Why there will always be multiple different technologies behind vaccines. 
36:58 - The problem with Operation Warp Speed. 
38:14 - What misinformation means. 
39:33 - Why we need the booster shot of the Covid vaccine. 
41:20 - Why you can still get Covid even if you're vaccinated. 
43:16 - Why it’s important to get the vaccine even if you are young and healthy. 
44:40 - Why non-vaccinated people put vaccinated people at risk. 
46:17 - The myth of doctors overprescribing Covid as the cause of death. 
48:47 - The impact masks have and when we’ll be able to stop wearing them. 
52:13 - The issues with shaming non-vaccinated people. 
55:50 - Our favorite restaurants in Houston. 

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