Tito’s Vodka gives local medical school $1M for Covid-19 vaccine research

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HOUSTON — Tito’s Handmade Vodka is giving Baylor College of Medicine a $1 million boost for its fight against Covid-19.

The grant from the brand’s philanthropic arm — Love, Tito’s — will help accelerate research on a vaccine for the virus.

Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor, and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi, associate dean of the National School of Tropical…