World’s first coronavirus vaccine is coming next month, but questions remain unanswered

[Chris Smith]

• The world's first coronavirus vaccine program could start in Russia as soon as mid-August, even though the country did not reveal anything about its supposedly successful experimental drug that can prevent COVID-19 infections.
• Phase 2 trials of the drug created by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute will end on August 3rd, and Phase 3 will coincide with the actual deployment of the medicine. Healthcare workers may be among the first to receive the vaccine.
• The speed at which Russia developed the vaccine raises concerns that research has been fast-tracked at the request of the Kremlin, which could end up having dangerous consequences.

The coronavirus vaccine candidates that have reached the final stage of clinical trials in the US could seek Emergency Use Approval from regulators as soon as October or November, and the first immunization campaigns could start by the end of 2020. But there are no guarantees that the Phase 3 trials will yield the desired efficacy results needed to turn these experimental drugs into actual COVID-19 prophylactics. Vaccine candidates from Moderna, Oxford, and BioNTech will be among the first to complete Phase 3 trials, and China has at least a couple of vaccine candidates that should be on the same schedule when it comes to development. But strangely enough, the world's first coronavirus vaccine could be available as soon as mid-August, and it might come from the most unexpected place: Russia. The country certainly has the resources to come up with its COVID-19 vaccine program. But Russia hasn't shared any results with the world about this experimental drug that can supposedly prevent COVID-19 infections.

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