Creative grit: the Global South takes on COVID-19, Episode 3
Two billion people, a quarter of humanity, play a special role with COVID-19 infections. Dr. Thomas Egwang, director general of Med Biotech Laboratories, a research lab in Kampala, Uganda spoke with me about why they matter. (Art: J. Jackson)
This is a podcast series with some of the people I spoke with for a story about the creative grit scientists in The Global South apply in the fight against COVID-19. They collaborate, they network, they get creative to get what they need: supplies and strength for their research. In the haste to clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccines some people were missed who need special attention. Thomas Egwang talks about why he and his colleagues submitted a letter to Nature Immunology about this and how research on this "quarter of humanity" continues.