'They don’t realize that vaccines are not the same as ventilators or masks — the hurdle is not the manufacturing process but showing in clinical trials that you have a vaccine that’s safe and effective'
Not one to listen to the experts. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Over the past few months, Dr. Peter Hotez has positioned himself as a coronavirus vaccine realist. Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of Texas Children’s Hospital Center’s vaccine development, has thrown cold water on claims — made mostly by bullish biotech and pharma execs — that a vaccine could be available in a few months. Dr.
On the other hand, we still have to resolve the fact that New York’s got 100 kids with this Kawasaki-like illness. So that’s another troublesome aspect. I think one of the things we’re learning about COVID-19 is that it’s as much a vasculitis problem as it is a pulmonary problem. I think that may be related to the tight binding of the virus to the ACE-2 receptor, and somehow that’s triggering vascular and thrombotic events.
I think there are two possibilities. My friend Jon Reiner, a cardiologist at George Washington University who’s famous for taking care of Dick Cheney, thinks a lot of people are afraid of coming into the hospital because of COVID-19. They’re not getting treated for their heart disease and everything else. But I also think what’s happening is that the thrombotic events in COVID-19 are causing death.To me it sounds a bit apocalyptic, especially after what we’ve seen in New York.
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