If you read the first sentence of her quote carefully, it does indeed require one egg per dose.
I don’t know how we’d handle the tradeoff between a rampaging 50% fatal bird flu and injecting 8 billion people with vaccine from appropriated and rush converted factory farm eggs, but it seems like an extremely bad choice to have to make.
I’m not even sure the egg supply is the most important bottleneck here. You have to grow virus in the eggs, then harvest, purify, package and distribute. Working in a bio lab myself, I am going to make an educated guess and say that converting a factory farm into a vaccine production facility would be no easy task, especially if H2H bird flu was already widespread.
If you read the first sentence of her quote carefully, it does indeed require one egg per dose.
I don’t know how we’d handle the tradeoff between a rampaging 50% fatal bird flu and injecting 8 billion people with vaccine from appropriated and rush converted factory farm eggs, but it seems like an extremely bad choice to have to make.
I’m not even sure the egg supply is the most important bottleneck here. You have to grow virus in the eggs, then harvest, purify, package and distribute. Working in a bio lab myself, I am going to make an educated guess and say that converting a factory farm into a vaccine production facility would be no easy task, especially if H2H bird flu was already widespread.
CNN breaks down the production process:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/27/health/chicken-egg-flu-vaccine-intl-hnk-scli/index.html