Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates surprisingly said he didn't think vaccine makers should share their formulas with other countries, citing safety risks.
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00:00The recipe for these vaccines to be shared would be helpful and do you think that would
00:05be helpful?
00:06No.
00:07Why not?
00:30Well, there's only so many vaccine factories in the world, and people are very serious
00:59about the safety of vaccines.
01:02And so moving something that had never been done, moving a vaccine from, say, a J&J factory
01:10into a factory in India, it's novel.
01:13It's only because of our grants and our expertise that can happen at all.
01:18The thing that's holding things back in this case is not intellectual property.
01:22There's not like some idle vaccine factory with regulatory approval that makes magically
01:27safe vaccines.
01:29You've got to do the trials on these things and every manufacturing process has to be
01:34looked at in a very careful way.
01:39There's all sorts of issues around intellectual property having to do with medicines, but
01:42not in terms of how quickly we've been able to ramp up the volume here.
01:48You know, I remember how shocked people were when we said we were going to do second sources
01:52in these developing country factories.
01:56You know, that was a novel thing.
01:58We got all the rights from the vaccine companies.
02:00They didn't hold it back.
02:01They were participating.
02:03I do a regular phone call with the pharmaceutical CEOs to make sure that work is going at full
02:08speed.