U.S. Vaccine Priority List Ready by Next Month
Russia’s declaration that it has a coronavirus vaccine pales in comparison to the strict bar set by the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed effort to produce a safe and effective vaccine by January 2021, administration officials said Thursday. Officials also disclosed that the list of who will be first in line for the vaccine will be announced by the end of September.
“Every vaccine expert in the world looking at this has been quite concerned about whether it was a wise decision,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told the Washington Examiner of the Russian effort. “Some have even called it Russian roulette.”
Speaking on a press call, Collins says the joint Department of Defense and Health and Human Services effort has, so far, invested billions of dollars into possible vaccines, manufacturing, therapeutics, and diagnostics.
Just in the past two weeks, OWS signed contracts for more than $4.5 billion to bankroll efforts by GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna.
That brings the total vaccines the U.S. government has invested in to six, including two that are in phase three trials with tens of thousands of participants. (Read more from “U.S. Vaccine Priority List Ready by Next Month” HERE)
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