The Russian coronavirus vaccine will gradually be applied to other high-risk people before mass Russian vaccination begins in October, the head of the study organization said Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday the approval of a coronavirus vaccine, and said it is a “global first,” amid persistent considerations and unanswered questions about its protection and effectiveness.
Speaking to Anderson Cooper and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Tuesday, Kirill Dmietriev, director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (DRIF), said that “safety is at the center of the vaccine. “
“We know that the generation is running and we will publish the knowledge in August and September to prove it,” Dmietriev said.
Developed through the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute, the vaccine has not yet undergone phase 3 trials in which thousands of people would be given.
Russia has published some clinical knowledge about its tests and CNN cannot determine the protection or efficacy of the vaccine.
“The deployment in Russia will be very gradual. We’re not going to give it to another 10 million people tomorrow,” Dmietriev said, adding that frontline medical staff and others with the greatest threat of coronavirus will be the first to voluntarily get the vaccine.
Following a planned mass deployment among Russians in October, Dmietriev said the vaccine would be available to other countries around November, and that they had already secured advance orders for a billion doses of vaccine.
The Brazilian state of Paraná is about to sign a cooperation agreement to check the vaccine, according to a report from the Russian embassy.
“Brazil is aware of all ongoing vaccine studies and promises that as soon as it has a vaccine that has been shown to be effective against Covid-19, Brazilians will have to do so,” Brazil’s Ministry of Health told CNN on Wednesday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte also supported Russia’s covid-19 studies at a press conference Monday that would volunteer to take the first dose of the vaccine in public, according to CNN associate CNN Philippines.
His comments came after Moscow showed up to get the vaccine in the Philippines. The Philippine Ministry of Health said its officials were in talks with the DRIF about the dosages and status quo of production laboratories in the Philippines, but any vaccine would have to pass through local processes and the approval of the Philippine Food and Drug Administration, the president said, according to CNN Philippines.
Putin’s claim of victory in the race to create an effective Covid-19 vaccine comes amid advice that Russia has taken critical shortcuts in its development.
Russia enacted a law in April that eliminated the requirement to conduct 3 trials prior to approval, which has allowed researchers to boost the vaccine progression process.
Dmietriev said that in the face of a pandemic, the law allowed them to conduct phase 3 trials at the same time “with the release of the vaccine to high-risk groups, what we do,” adding that “we believe this is precisely the right approach. “
Phase 3 testing is expected to begin Wednesday in Russia with 2,000 participants, while the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Mexico will begin testing on August 12, according to the new Sputnik V.
Experts expressed fear about the effect of a vaccine before it is fully tested.
“The bar is necessarily very high for criteria to be met for approval after Phase 3 clinical trials,” said Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London at science media center. “Collateral damage caused by the publication of any vaccine that is not effective and is not effective would insurmountably exacerbate our existing problems. I hope those criteria have been met. We’re all there. “
On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U. S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was a member of the U. S. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He said he seriously doubted that the Russian vaccine was in a position to be widely used.
“I hope the Russians have definitely shown that the vaccine is safe and effective. I seriously doubt they did,” Fauci told DEBOrah Roberts of ABC News at a National Geographic event to air Thursday. Part of the interview was published Tuesday through National Geographic. .
Fauci said having a vaccine and proving it’s effective are two other things.
“We have part of a dozen or more vaccines,” he says. So, if we’re looking to take on the threat of hurting a lot of other people or giving them something that doesn’t work, we might just start doing it, you know, next week if we want to. jobs. “
Six pharmaceutical companies, in addition to Moderna and Pfizer, have reached agreements with the U. S. government to expand a Covid-19 vaccine as a component of a federal crusade to end the pandemic. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already said it will approve a vaccine if it meets a 50% efficacy requirement.
U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said Tuesday that the United States has strict protection criteria and that “this is a race to be the first. “
“We will ask that any vaccine in the United States be effective and meet the FDA’s gold standard,” Azar said at a press convention in Taipei, where he met with Taiwanese leaders to discuss Covid -19.
Azar said two of the six vaccines the US government invested in. But it’s not the first time They entered Phase 3 clinical trials a few weeks ago, and said knowledge of the first Russian trials was revealed.
In an email sent Tuesday, the World Health Organization said it was in contact with Russian scientists and government and hoped to review the main points of the trials. According to WHO, 28 vaccines are being tested in humans worldwide.
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