Covid-19 vaccines to enter late-stage trial by end of July, Fauci says

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Reuters
03 July, 2020, 03:50 pm
Last modified: 03 July, 2020, 03:54 pm
The news comes as Moderna Inc , which is at the forefront of the country’s vaccine development efforts, reiterated earlier in the day that a late-stage trial with 30,000 volunteers would begin this month
File Photo: Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on efforts to get back to work and school during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Washington, DC, US June 30, 2020. Photo : Reuters

Covid-19 vaccine candidates will enter late-stage clinical studies by the end of the month, with others beginning in August, September and October, the US government's top infectious diseases expert said on Thursday.

The news comes as Moderna Inc , which is at the forefront of the country's vaccine development efforts, reiterated earlier in the day that a late-stage trial with 30,000 volunteers would begin this month.

"We may be able to at least know whether we are dealing with a safe and effective vaccine by the early winter, late winter, (or) beginning of 2021," Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview to JAMA Network.

Earlier on Thursday, Dr Francis Collins, the director of the US National Institutes of Health, said the Trump administration's vaccine-acceleration program could generate a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine by year-end.

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