Experts voice concerns over US government's program for COVID-19 vaccine

While US President Donald Trump has showcased optimism about COVID-19 vaccine being available by end of 2020, country’s medical experts have raised concerns over federal government’s “Operation Warp Speed”  vaccine program. According to reports, even though approach of Trump’s ministration is reasonable, manner in which information is being mitigated to people is creating a sense of panic and even fueling anti-vaccine movements. 

In a televised interview with CNN, Dr Peter Hotez, dean of National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of paediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine said on June 6 that re is a lot of “chaos and confusion” regarding federal government’s program. According to sources cited by international media outlet, Warp Speed program under Trump ministration has selected five companies that would most likely to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine.

Meanwhile, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases dr Anthony Fauci has said that he expects at least 100,000 doses of one vaccine me by Moderna to be available in US by 2020. 

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US-based firm begins human trial in Australia

Meanwhile, as some parts of world are currently facing peak of coronavirus pandemic, a US-based biotechlogy company has anunced its plans to start enrolling 130 people to test a new experimental vaccine. As per reports, declaring tenth human trial for a potential vaccine of COVID-19 disease that has infected over 6.7 million people across globe, vavax said that first batch volunteers were vaccinated last week in Australia. trial for coronavirus vaccine is planned to take place in two phases at two sites in island nation.  Maryland-based company has named potential COVID-19 vaccine as ‘NVX-CoV2373’ which is a perfusion protein me with proprietary naparticle techlogy. 

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