Seth Berkley

We had 20 years of research on mRNA vaccines.

And we had research on two previous COVID vaccines.

We had, not COVID, sorry, coronavirus vaccines.

We had MERS and we had SARS.

And those vaccines, you know, vaccines were effective.

built, people solve the problem of how to get a spike protein, how to stabilize it, how to do all that.

So, you know, when the pandemic hit, people knew exactly what to do.

And that's why the yield wasn't 7%, as you said before, you know, on the success rate for new vaccines.

Most of the vaccines ended up working because we had all that science basis.

So when we kill basic science,

this is a real problem.

You know, you won't feel it today, but you will feel it in the future.

And if we don't have young people going into science, how are we going to create the next generation for this?

So I, you know, I don't see how that makes America healthy again or makes America great again.

It seems to me we ought to be doubling down on the great academic institutions, the great, you know, scientists we have in supporting that research as an engine because, you know,

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

We're all going to get older.

Lifespan is, as you describe in super ages, lifespan is going to increase.

We're going to need new innovations.

And so we ought to be investing in that.