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    A Texas team comes up with a COVID vaccine that could be a global game changer

    Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi used an oldie-but- goodie technology to devise a vaccine that's easy to make — and relatively cheap. India has already ordered 300 million doses.
    by Joe Palca Jan 05, 2022 3 minutes
    Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi of Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new COVID vaccine that could prove beneficial to lower resource countries. They said their Texas location was key to the project: There were lots of local philanthropic groups that agreed to fund their research.

    A vaccine authorized in December for use in India may help solve one of the most vexing problems in global public health: How to supply lower income countries a COVID-19 vaccine that is safe, effective and affordable.

    The vaccine is called CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured far more easily than most if not all of the COVID vaccines in use today.

    "CORBEVAX is a game changer," says Dr. , executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global

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