Anjalee Khemlani
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Anjalee Khemlani
@AnjKhem
Forbes Contributor | Podcast Host/Anchor | Global Speaker/Moderator | Strategist | Information is my oxygen | Also on sky | Sig anjkhem.01
- Moderna is out with a supply update: -short-term production delays at Catalent, not expected to impact delivery targets. -Monthly doses to double by April: 40-45M doses/month until end of July. -100M doses by end of May (previously June) -100M more by July (previously Sept) $MRNA
- Replying to @AnjKhemPence responding to Trump saying he has absolute power: All 50 states and territories have issued states of emergency. Unprecedented time. In the long history of this country, authority of President of the US during times of emergency is plenary.
- Replying to @karenkhoI would add that interviews like the one by Jon Stewart do happen, regularly, by journalists who don't have a platform that captures it (audio/video). If people supported local news more over the years, they would see the good journalism that happens.
- Social media companies "have no problem shutting down" global terrorism, nuclear proliferation or cyberattacks. "Anti-science is a far greater killer," says @PeterHotez. Featuring @ASlavitt interview w/ $FB's Nick Clegg.“The reason why 600,000 Americans lost their lives from COVID-19 is in part due to the SARS coronavirus type 2. But an equal measure, it was defiance,” Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development Co-Director Dr. @PeterHotez says, adding: “Death by anti-science.”
00:00 - FDA 'slow-walking' Novavax authorization. "Whatever it is, there's some dynamic other than science going on," @LawrenceGostin says. finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-slow-… $NVAX
- 👀NEW: HHS+DoD funding doses of $REGN antibody therapy. "By funding this manufacturing effort, the federal government will own the doses..." ~70,000 to 300,000 doses as early as end of summer and completed this fall. First of Operation Warp Speed treatment awards.
- Replying to @AnjKhemMORE: $450 million to Regeneron for the large-scale manufacturing demonstration If therapy is authorized by FDA, will be available "to the American people at no cost" **BUT** "healthcare professionals could charge insurers for the cost of administering the medicine."
- "Giving masks for all of the US population will cost billions, maybe, but that's nothing compared to the trillions that are constantly being given by Congress" to fund U.S. pandemic response efforts, says @jljcolorado.“We need to keep the mask mandates in locations and times when cases are high,” Univ. of Colorado-Boulder Prof. of Chemistry and CIRES Fellow Jose Luis Jimenez says. “But actually we need to improve the mask mandate. We need to stop wearing cloth masks and go to N95s for all.”
00:00 - Replying to @AnjKhemCuomo addressing federal powers/Trump absolute power comments yesterday: Federal-state relationship is important to reopening. Basic federalism. Balance b/w state+federal is the essence of our democracy. "We do not have a king in this country."
- $NVAX has said it asked FDA to consider its original formula as a booster rather than have to produce a new bivalent/BA.5-specific because it had early indications of this protection. New info:
