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Josue Bacaltchuk, Vice President of Medical Affairs for Latin America at Janssen, Belgian Unit of J
“We expect the majority in Brazil because it is the largest country and also the maximum affected by the pandemic, so we expect many others to volunteer, but we also expect the best numbers in Colombia and Argentina.Bacaltchuk said.
“It is the company’s goal to prioritize countries that contribute to vaccine progression and will involve patients in trials, yes,” he added in an interview with Reuters on Thursday.
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The drugmaker is conducting trials in the United States and Belgium, adding Chile, Argentina and Peru to a list of Latin American countries where it plans to conduct phase III trials with Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
His trials around the world will come with 60,000 volunteers.
All Latin American countries have the highest number of infections, making them exciting verification sites for vaccine developers, as it is to download reliable verification effects in spaces with the highest rates of active transmission and infection.
Bacaltchuk said the resolution to publish the trials greatly led to the challenge of ensuring that a sufficient number of volunteers in a populated domain through other pharmaceutical corporations conduct tests of their own prototypes.
“I think this is a forward-looking threat and that’s why we’re moving to a number of centers higher than the other corporations to cover the geographic spaces that are covered by the other studios,” he said.
He the reaction of the volunteers of the region has been “quite positive” and hopes that it will continue.
“It has an effect on everyone and will continue to have an effect even after it’s over, the consequences will continue, so we need to review it to prevent it as soon as possible,” he said.
Reporting through Aislinn Laing in Santiago; Edited through Adam Jourdan and Matthew Lewis
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