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- Hello, my name is Colonel Deydre Teyhen,

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and I'm the Deputy Lead for Therapeutics

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at Operation Warp Speed.

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Very simply, a vaccine is
used to prevent the disease

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where a therapeutic is
used to treat people

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with the disease.

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Well, the status of therapeutics
in Operation Warp Speed

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right now is incredibly exciting.

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What we're finding is that
there's really two big types

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of therapeutics we need to look at;

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therapeutics that
actually attack the virus,

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and then therapeutics later on

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that help manage the complications

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that come with COVID-19.

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The only way we can push through

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all these therapeutics through the process

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safely and quickly,

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is that we have Americans
willing to volunteer

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to be participating in clinical trials.

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We cannot do anything that we're doing

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at Operation Warp Speed

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without the volunteers across our country.

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What we need in our clinical trials

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is for a diversity of
folks to agree to volunteer

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for the study.

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That is diversity in age,

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diversity in weight,

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diversity in race and ethnicity,

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diversity in underlying health risk.

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And what we want is to make
sure that these therapeutics

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that we put out,

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work for all of America.

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And for it to work for all of America,

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we need to have all of America represented

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in these clinical trials.

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And you can go to RisAboveCovid.org

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to find out more.

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Well, what we do is we proceed at risk

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in things like manufacturing.

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So why are clinical trials going on?

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We actually are manufacturing
that therapeutic or vaccine

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at the same time,

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hoping that the clinical
trial works out well.

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And if it does,

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then we've already had it manufactured.

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If not, then whatever we've manufactured,

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we manufactured at risk and it goes away.

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All the therapeutics go
through the same FDA process

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whether this was pre or post-pandemic.

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That safety process has not changed.

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What we're finding is that
there's really two big types

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of therapeutics we need to look at;

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therapeutics that
actually attack the virus,

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and then therapeutics later on

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that help manage the complications

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that come with COVID-19.

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Because there's a lot of
complications we're finding

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that happened later in the course

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for those that have
really severe symptoms.