'Good news,' said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor and infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. 'I think it clearly boosts confidence that we will have one or more vaccines.'
The company also has started production in six other countries, including in Europe, India and other parts of Asia, producing 1-2 billion doses next year, according to company CEO and president Stanley Erck.
The company plans to publish the trial results in a peer reviewed journal, which is the standard for scientific publications. Schaffner said he thinks it was acceptable to release results via press release, because several of the other companies have done it, and"it has become the new normal." It would be"terrible for the company" if it came out later the information they released was shown to be inaccurate.
The side effects seen in the study were very encouraging, Schaffner said, and a"small price to pay for protection against COVID-19." Based on these results, he is confident that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will support the company's move to shortly begin a Phase 2 trial in the U.S. and Australia, including older patients, and a large, Phase 3 trial by the end of September.Health and patient safety coverage at USA TODAY is made possible in part by a grant from the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare. The Masimo Foundation does not provide editorial input.
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