Sean Rameswaram
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7,113 appearances
119 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
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There've been researchers like someone at the University of Cape Town, an infectious disease specialist I spoke with named Linda Gale Becker.
She's been at this for decades and she told me how she was so excited.
They had finally developed this vaccine
first in Africa designed vaccine trial with components discovered by African scientists.
And they were all set.
She had gone to the manufacturing plant and seen the vaccine getting made.
They were all meeting in Tanzania last year at the beginning of the year, just to kind of work out the last details.
And that's when President Trump, you know, got back into power and signed his executive order disbanding USAID.
And the thing is that this trial was reliant on a $45 million grant from USAID, and it all...
kind of disintegrated before their eyes.
Now, Ailey, we came to you for hope.
No, we can't just go back into this death spiral.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I mean, they have salvaged some of the trial.
They were able to get some funding from the South African Medical Research Council and some nonprofits stepped up, like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
But it's, you know, it's a lot less money.
Yeah.
And one of the kind of weird things about right now is that the scientists are more excited than ever.
They think they know what they need to do, but they need the funding to do it.
But you also mentioned that there are research challenges.
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