Seth Berkley

And, you know, the truth is we may maybe someday we'll have something better.

But today, if we had another pandemic and maybe it wouldn't be one and a half percent mortality rate,

You know, we have pathogens that are 30, 40, 50% mortality rate.

Every minute counts in those moments to try to move towards something.

And nothing is as fast as mRNA.

So in this case, we had not used mRNA before.

It's not licensed, you know, so people were slower than it could be.

But if I remember the numbers correctly, we had it from the time the genome was published.

We had it in 42 days in a vial and 63 days the first injection.

you know, and that could now be compressed down.

There is nothing else can move at that speed.

So I don't know about, you know, what the policymakers are thinking, but I want that in my armamentarium and I want to, you know, optimize it as best as possible.

Meanwhile, China is shooting ahead now, you know, trying to optimize this and move this forward as are now some other countries.

I mean, and that's not my point is, you know, if you just had the worst pandemic in the last hundred years, which we did,

what should be the reaction?

Okay, I understand.

After the 1918 pandemic, people said, you know, I don't want to talk about flu anymore, et cetera.

We didn't have the same science then.

What should be the reaction?

Okay, people don't have to talk about it, but the science community should be funded to make, for example, universal coronavirus vaccines.