America is not in a Covid-19 vaccine race with Russia, US health chief says
US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday that coronavirus vaccine development is “not a race to be first,” responding to Russia's approval of what it claims to be the "world's first" Covid-19 vaccine.
Azar noted that two of the six Covid-19 vaccines that the US government has invested in entered Phase 3 clinical trials weeks ago, while the Russian vaccine is now only beginning that step of the process. The data from the initial trials in Russia has also not been disclosed, he said.
“We will require any vaccine in the United States be safe and effective and meet the FDA's gold standard,” Azar said at a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan during his three-day trip to the self-ruled island, the highest-level visit by a US cabinet official in four decades.
Comparing Operation Warp Speed, the US government’s Covid-19 vaccine effort, to the Apollo mission to land humans on the moon, Azar said this “once in a generation type initiative” should produce a safe Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
Under Operation Warp Speed, the US government has six vaccines under contract.
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Sweden's strategy was to try to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19. However, a recent study using antibody testing suggests that this policy failed. If long lasting immunity can not be generated after infection with the viral itself then there is little hope that the vaccine will be able to achieve this...
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Thanks for sharing and the question is actually about effective vaccine and its equitable distribution dear Rajkumar Rajendram . Another important issue is Sweden's soft strategy was not for herd immunity they just follow social distancing with using face mask and other healthy practices to avoid lockdown to save their economy. Ultimately, it did not work.
Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn has accused Moscow of failing to be transparent over its research and said the country's approved vaccine could be "dangerous."
12 August, CNN
13 August, CNN
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Dear Muhammed Ashraful Alam
You are right. We need an effective vaccine with its equitable distribution. There is no need for the race to bring out the vaccine with incomplete/insufficient duration of trials. The trials and results should be transparent and their data should be accessible to the World health Organization. If all the phases are duly complied with then there can be a race for the marketing of Covid-19 vaccine. The financial gains for countries and companies should come after all the above conditions are fulfilled. The vaccine should be marketed after it has been approved by the WHO or any similar accepted world body/organization.
Yes, I do strongly agree with the above-mentioned statement...!!!