Before we dive deeper into all we've been through and accomplished this year, I want to give a very exciting breaking news highlight for the community.

The big news has to be the recent announcements by Pfizer, Moderna and Astra Zeneca about their COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.

All of the recent news, including the hearings about our potential new Supreme Court Justice, highlight that people are worried, concerned, and fixated on the cost and access to health care and of course, since it’s an election year, people want to know who to blame. The short answer is all of us, but then it gets more complicated.

As of this writing, we are in something like day 190 of the hostage crisis.

Wow, after waiting 25 plus years for a gene therapy product for the hemophilia community, it never occurred to me that Biomarin’s product would be rejected by the FDA last week with a call for additional data on the durability of their product.

Our advocacy this week reminds me of a few things worth remembering.