China vaccinated tens of thousands of people against coronavirus before finalizing clinical trials

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There is only one country in the world where a part of the population is already vaccinated against covid-19, which is accelerated compared to the traditional testing phases of a drug. She’s Chinese. The New York Times writes that it fell first to workers in state-controlled companies, then to members of the government and employees of pharmaceutical companies that made the vaccines. Soon it will be the turn of the teachers, the staff who work in supermarkets and those who move through risk areas.

“There is still no vaccine that has been shown to be effective and safe, but that has not stopped the Chinese government from vaccinating tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people outside of the traditional testing process,” he writes. the American newspaper.

No other country has chosen this path. In the United States, under pressure from Trump and public statements about the very short arrival of an available vaccine, 9 pharmaceutical companies have spoken out demanding that everything be done following the times of science and not politics. In Russia, the first country to approve a vaccine before the end of the clinical trial, the vaccine announced by Putin has yet to be distributed. In England, however, according to the Financial Times, it was decided to infect healthy people in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the vaccine: this is also an acceleration, but it is always part of the testing phase, not distribution to the population.

Experts heard by the New York Times are concerned about this Chinese acceleration because those vaccines have not yet been proven safe afterwards and some early vaccines may have had no other choice. Second, those who are vaccinated may have a sense of security that could be dangerous.

The vaccines that have been used in China are phase 3, or the last, which must prove the safety of the drug. Currently, this takes place mainly outside of China.