Germany says finding Covid-19 vaccine could take years

“I would be happy if the development of the vaccine is successful in a few months, but everyone should be cautious. This could take years, because of course there will be flaws in the vaccine search, as we have done with other vaccines, “German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on May 3. He said

“Vaccine development is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks in the health sector,” said Spahn.

Meanwhile, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, said on May 3 that the United States could have the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of this year.

The Trump administration is said to be urging agencies to accelerate vaccine development. The objective of this campaign is to speed up the preparation of the vaccine and produce 300 million doses by January of next year.

Anthony Fauci, an anti-Covid-19 expert at the White House, said last week that a US vaccine was possible in January of next year.

Scientists from around the world, including Russia, China, the United States and Europe, have been trying to participate in the vaccine development race since January. Covid-19 is safe to use.

The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the distribution of vaccines, not the development of vaccines, was a major challenge in the fight against Covid-19. The WHO leadership speech was delivered at a fundraising conference held today 4/5 with the goal of raising at least € 7.5 billion ($ 8.2 billion) for vaccine and modal research. Covid-19 treatment.

“The final measure of success is not how fast we can develop vaccines, but how we can distribute them fairly. None of us can accept a world in which some people are protected, while others remain infected, “said Tedros.

According to Johns Hopkins University statistics, the number of Covid-19 cases worldwide has now exceeded 3.5 million, while the number of deaths also recorded at least 247,000.

Thanh Dat

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