Trump administration aims to have vaccine available by year-end (File)
Washington DC:
US President Donald Trump during a press briefing said the United States may provide a vaccine against the novel coronavirus to other countries when it is ready.
“When we have this vaccine, it will be unloaded and taken care of,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “It will be a very quick process across the country and maybe we’ll get a lot of the vaccine to other parts of the world, like we do with ventilators and other things that we suddenly have become.” very good to manufacture. . “
The Trump administration aims to have a vaccine available by the end of the year or early 2021.
On Monday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said U.S. scientists had started the phase three trial of the potential vaccine developed by biotech company Moderna.
The NIH plans to conduct the trial at several U.S. clinical research sites with the participation of approximately 30,000 adult volunteers who are not infected with the novel coronavirus.
The United States reported more than 4.3 million cases and more than 149,000 deaths linked to the virus as of Tuesday afternoon, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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