Seth Berkley

We may learn new things.

But if we can't trust science, then what can we trust?

You know, it can't be the biggest influencers on social media because, you know, they're not going to have the knowledge and wisdom to move forward.

And long-term effects that, you know, I mean, you've written about this and, you know, the effects of getting COVID on your cardiovascular system, on your renal system, on your neurologic system, it's not just a cold.

And obviously, you know, we want to try to avoid that.

That's why we need better vaccines, by the way.

We need vaccines to prevent infection, not just, you know, mitigate disease.

And that's why the research should be screaming ahead right now rather than being pulled back.

I mean, you know, you open up exactly what the problem is.

And, you know, I'm here in Boston in flagship pioneering.

I'm executive vice chair of a company called Apriori Bio.

They actually, you know, one of the companies that actually made a solution for COVID.

They were able to.

produce vaccines that were looking using AI and machine learning to where the virus was going, predicting what mutations could occur, what would structurally work, and then producing antigens that would cover those in the future.

So you could make vaccines that were at least starting with a couple of years of coverage.

And, you know, you could make

extra vaccines for things that might come in the future, so you have them structurally made.

There's no interest in COVID.

So, you know, it's shifted over now to doing the same thing in flu and doing that on H5.

And even on H5, again, they pulled out despite the fact that it was, you know, in California, it was national, it was a state emergency.