Nearly 80 Percent of Americans Would Not Get COVID-19 Vaccine

There are already “worrying signs” that trust in potential COVID-19 vaccines is diminishing, according to a top advisor to the U.K. government.

Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the U.K.-based research-charity the Wellcome Trust, made the comments in the Observer newspaper on Sunday, the same day a CBS News poll revealed 79 percent of the U.S. public would not get a shot right away.

Teams of scientists around the world are working on almost 200 coronavirus vaccine candidates, with 34 in clinical evaluation, according to the World Health Organization. . .

In August, Russia became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine. However, it only published results from its Phase I and II trial data in a peer-reviewed journal on Friday. That day, President Donald Trump told reporters at a news conference that the country is on track to deliver a coronavirus vaccine “maybe even before November 1st,” days before the 2020 election. (Read more from “Nearly 80 Percent of Americans Would Not Get COVID-19 Vaccine” HERE)

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