Coronavirus, vaccine: for Trump it will be ready within the year



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Trump’s word: vaccinate within the year. Donald Trump warns: Doctors don’t want me to say it. But he, of course, is not held back and in town hall Organize Fox News at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial, right at the foot of the Great President, he announces. We will have the vaccine by the end of the year, I am convinced. Trump repeats it several times, probably to balance the other bad news this time: there could be a hundred thousand deaths. A few days ago, however, he said that they would not go beyond 70,000, a figure that unfortunately will be reached today.

About the vaccine, American scientists and companies are really forcing the times. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, chaired by Anthony Fauci, is following several promising projects. The most advanced developed by the Modern company, based in Cambridge in Massachusetts, which on Monday, April 27 went to Phase 2: tests on hundreds of volunteers. The problem now is who produces the anti-Covid-19 formula first. Trump has assured that he does not care and that he is ready to collaborate with all countries.

There are, however, complex industrial and technological passages. Moderna has just signed an agreement with a Swiss multinational, the Lonza Group. The contract provides for a collaboration of 10 years. The goal is to pack around a billion doses per year. Attention, however, the first experimental batch will already be prepared between June and July, but in the American plants of the Swiss company. Americans, therefore, beyond Trump’s words, are careful to control not only the research stage, but also the production stagethat is, the decisive moment and the fundamental strategic value. It is a pity that this time the alliance between the United States and the European countries has not worked.

May 4, 2020 (change May 4, 2020 | 09:58)

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