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000,000/57 1,300 agreed that they would participate in a longer range plan to transfer technology 2 low and middle income countries to make their own vaccine. In addition, Frances and I spoke about the patent dispute between the NIAID Vaccine Research Center and Moderna. The story is that the lawyers of Moderna feel that the VRC people such as Barney Graham an others technically should not be inventors on the patent for the discovery of the vaccine. We strongly disagree with that an as a matter of fact so do Stephane and Stephen. they realize that it is unfair to exclude us from the patent; also it would be a public relations disaster for them if they excluded us. They promised that they would get this resolved soon. It is clear that Pfizer can do the same thing. In fact, Pfizer can likely produce 3 billion doses by the end of this year and even more next year . If this is possible which I believe that it is, then we could probably vaccinate the entire world that wants to be vaccinated within the next year and a half. PRESS: NBC "Today" with Savannah Guthrie; CNN with Jim Sciutto; Wall Street Journal - Robbie Whelan - Vaccines Appear to Be Slowing Spread of Covid-19 Infections With more than 37% of U.S. adults fully vaccinated, Anthony Fauci expects case numbers to drop significantly April 29, 2021 - Global -149,200,000/3,100,000; USA - 32,000,000/571,300 MMWR: Linked Clusters of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.351 -- Maryland, January-February 2021 Back up again to 53,000/day: