FILE – In this Thursday, June 25, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference at the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO ) in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone via AP, File)
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UPDATED 10:25 AM PT – Saturday July 4, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) is soon expected to receive results from several clinical trials of drugs, which could be effective in treating patients with COVID-19. On Friday, WHO officials confirmed that the first results should be seen in the next two weeks.
About 5,500 patients have been recruited for the trial in 39 different countries. This comes as part of a worldwide effort to find treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19.
According to experts, it is still too early to develop a timetable for when a vaccine will be finished and ready for the public.
“It would be unwise at this time to predict when a vaccine could be implemented, certainly in this calendar year,” said WHO official Mike Ryan. “I think it will be difficult for vaccines.”
Meanwhile, some officials have claimed that a vaccine should not be expected until at least 2021.
