Contrary to conventional wisdom, one does not need a huge manufacturing plant / pharmaceutical research and development infrastructure to produce vaccines for H5N1.
Every major population center in the United States, as well as many minor population centers, have laboratories that have enough critical hardware that can be used in the production of a vaccine.
I am reccommending that all State and Local officials identify these labs, key personnel, and material and create a plan to develop a manufacturing protocol for local vaccine production and development.
This means that instead of waiting 6 months for a vaccine to be produced (by a foreign country who will have different priorities of distribution), in quantities that are inadequate, with a distribution system in taters, and about 5 months too late....
State and local officials will be able to give HOPE, realistic and concrete, to their citizens that something is being done protect and save their loved ones.
Without hope of a vaccine, it will be terribly difficult to maintain social order ( by threatening to withhold it to troublemakers), and to encourage others to risk their lives in order to be prioritized for vaccine distribution.
I estimate that with prepositioned plans and protocols, vaccines could theoretically be given to first responders within weeks of a viral outbreak, not months.
Every major population center in the United States, as well as many minor population centers, have laboratories that have enough critical hardware that can be used in the production of a vaccine.
I am reccommending that all State and Local officials identify these labs, key personnel, and material and create a plan to develop a manufacturing protocol for local vaccine production and development.
This means that instead of waiting 6 months for a vaccine to be produced (by a foreign country who will have different priorities of distribution), in quantities that are inadequate, with a distribution system in taters, and about 5 months too late....
State and local officials will be able to give HOPE, realistic and concrete, to their citizens that something is being done protect and save their loved ones.
Without hope of a vaccine, it will be terribly difficult to maintain social order ( by threatening to withhold it to troublemakers), and to encourage others to risk their lives in order to be prioritized for vaccine distribution.
I estimate that with prepositioned plans and protocols, vaccines could theoretically be given to first responders within weeks of a viral outbreak, not months.