Don’t expect a coronavirus vaccine by Election Day, despite what President Donald Trump promises.
Moderna was the first company to begin Phase 3 clinical trials in the U.S. and hopes to register 30,000 subjects by September, but so far has had only 4,536 applications and just 54 of 89 study sites opened, CNN reported.
The company will not reach its target for next month as that pace continues, but infectious disease experts say Moderna has not yet received a vaccine ready for the market in time for the November 3 election.
“I do not see how that could be possible,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccinologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
“There is no way,” Dr. agreed. Peter Hotez, a vaccinologist at Baylor College of Medicine. “There’s just no way.”
Once the company enters topics and jumps in with their first shot, they then have to wait 28 days for a second shot, which means that participants who sign up at the end of September will not get their second shots until the end of October. – and then wait another two weeks for the vaccine to become fully effective.
“That brings you past election day,” Offit said.
Researchers will then have to wait and see if participants become ill with COVID-19.
Both Offit and Hotez predicted that results from Moderna’s study would not be available until the first quarter of 2021, at the earliest, and they also splashed cold water on a Pfizer schedule, which runs on July 27, Phase 2/3. of her own study began.
Pfizer hopes to know by the end of September or early October whether his vaccine worked, after dosing more than 2,000 at the end of last week, but Offit and Hotez pointed out that research should also wait for their second dose to determine whether it was effective.
“Maybe we can have a smile by inauguration day or the vaccine will work and assess its safety,” Hotez said.
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