Pe­ter Hotez and Maria Bot­tazz­i's 'for­got­ten' vac­cine ap­proved in Botswana

A Covid-19 vac­cine from a lab out of Bay­lor Uni­ver­si­ty’s Na­tion­al School of Trop­i­cal Med­i­cine arose from ef­forts that stemmed from the 2004 SARS out­break, which killed 774 peo­ple, many in Chi­na. It was large­ly ig­nored when gov­ern­ment agen­cies and phar­ma com­pa­nies alike re­fused to fi­nance hu­man tri­als, but when the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic ar­rived, Pe­ter Hotez and Maria Bot­tazzi brought it back to the draw­ing board and en­tered the vac­cine in Phase III tri­als in In­dia.

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