- Dr. Fauci and other health experts authored a paper that explains what the world has to do to ensure that a viable COVID-19 vaccine reaches the public as fast as possible.
- The scientists explained that a single vaccine candidate will not be enough in the fight against the novel coronavirus, and more drugs will be needed to satisfy the global need for a vaccine.
- The paper also details a public-private partnership called ACTIV “for harmonized clinical trials aims to accelerate licensure and distribution” for COVID-19 vaccines.
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The novel coronavirus still rages on and there’s no sign that the infection will go away anytime soon, even if several countries and communities were able to flatten the curve and reduce the number of new COVID-19 cases. The virus is just that contagious, and anyone can get it, even if not everybody will display signs of the infection. To beat this thing, we’ll need two types of treatments in the coming years. We need drugs that can act early against the disease and reduce the risk of complications and death. And then we need vaccines that can prevent the infection and hopefully eradicate it. That’s “vaccines,” plural. Just one drug won’t be enough to inoculate everyone around the world, and we’ll need more than 7 billion doses of vaccines ready in the next few years.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, co-authored a paper about the path forward for COVID-19 vaccine research and development. Fauci and other experts call for collaboration, unity, and transparency at the national and global level to expedite the arrival of safe and effective vaccines.
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