COVID-19's disproportionate harm on communities of color demands more inclusive efforts as government attempts to develop a vaccine, the head of the National Institutes of Health said.
Collins predicted that the nation would have"a vaccine that might actually reach approval by the end of 2020." He said vaccine development is proceeding at an unprecedented pace by limiting delay time between different stages of research, and by making candidate vaccines before they have been fully vetted, so that the supply will be there if one or more prove successful.He's thrilled, he added, that there are multiple vaccine candidates.
"It looks like it's on the right track," he said, but the approach is new,"so, who knows" whether it will prove safe and effective. Collins said he's been impressed with the safety of convalescent plasma – a blood product from people who have recovered from COVID-19. But research has not yet shown whether convalescent plasma is truly effective for COVID-19 patients and at what stage of disease.
"If I had to put my hopes on one therapeutic that might be a real game-changer as soon as this fall, it would be monoclonals," Collins said."But we don’t know until we actually go there and try that."
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