Millions of coronavirus vaccines may be available on that date
The chief scientist of the World Health Organization revealed his hopes for possible chronology.
As potential VVID-19 vaccines are now being tried in humans around the world, the Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization today revealed a possible schedule for the deployment of A successful product.
"The World Health Organization hopes that hundreds of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses can be produced this year and 2 billion doses by the end of 2021, the chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan announced Thursday"Reuters Reports. "WHO is developing plans to help decide who should get the first doses once a vaccine is approved, has it declared."
"If we are very lucky, there will be one or two successful [vaccine] candidates before the end of this year," said Smosist Soumya Soumya Swaminathan.
Who gets them first
"Priority would be given to front-line workers such as doctors, those who are vulnerable because of age or other illness, as well as those who work or live in high-transmission contexts such as prisons and care homes "reports reportsNDTV. Swaminathan said the chronology was a prevention: "I hope I'm optimistic. But the development of vaccines is a complex company, it comes with a lot of uncertainty, "she said. "The good thing is that we have many vaccines and platforms, even if the first fails, or the second fail, we should not lose hope, we should not give up."
As for countries get the priority: "which will propose these solutions," she said. "Countries must agree and come to a consensus. This is the only way to work."
Hydroxychloroquine tests in progress
In the same press conference, Dr. Swaminathan said, "It was definitely proved that cheap antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine does not work in the stops between the hospitalized people with the new coronavirus," according to theAp. But she said, "There was still a role for drugs in the prevention of people to catch Covid-19 in the first place and noted that clinical trials testing the role of hydroxychloroquine in this respect are underway."
"And we need to complement these big trials and get the data," said Dr. Swaminathan.
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