Posted on 03/30/2020 11:49:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Johnson & Johnson is five months away from starting human trials on a COVID-19 vaccine, the pharmaceutical giant said Monday. Clinical data would be available by the end of the year, leaving open the possibility of emergency-use authorization by early next year.
“We have very good early indicators that not only can we depend on this to be a safe vaccine base but also one that will ultimately be effective, based on all the early testing and modeling we’ve been doing,” the company’s chairman and CEO, Alex Gorsky, said on CNBC Monday.
The firm began working on a vaccine in January, Gorsky said, and has partnered with the federal government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to speed the vaccine though testing and approval. “This is a bit of a moon shot for J&J going forward, but it’s one we feel is very, very important for us to be doing at this period in time,” he said.
Gorsky said the plan is to distribute the vaccine on a “not-for-profit basis here in the United States.” The research, development, and testing of the vaccine is being co-funded by a $1 billion investment from Johnson & Johnson and BARDA, an arm of the Department of Health and Human Services.
New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson is one of a handful of companies in the COVID-19 vaccine arms race. The Massachusetts biotech company Moderna Inc. began human trials of its experimental vaccine this month in Seattle. Though the vaccine won’t be commercially available for at least another year, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel reportedly claimed that “under emergency use, a vaccine could be available to some people, possibly including health-care professionals,” this year. Dozens of other companies and academic institutions are racing to develop a vaccine.
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Needs to be ready by start of Q4 this year!
What does it matter at this point anyway! The damage has already been done, and if it is going to take that long or even 6 more months, the damage to the country is about to get far worse.
China is going to massive distribute vaccine starting in April. They have a compassionate release clause in their approval. If it works and is safe can you imagine the pressure on the United States?
Before you say don’t believe anything out of China, I would be bet if their vaccine does work and released to millions of people, it will be confirmed by scientist.
The Swine Flu vaccine was provided to high risk in less than 6 months after human testing and 56 million doses at the the 6 month mark. This 18-month thing appears to be a myth during a pandemic.
the left found a way to destroy SMALL businesses and get our money.. run the ecomomy into the ground.
F*** these libs
BS!
There isn’t a vaccine for SARS from years back.
THE average FDA approval is time is 12 years.
Herd immunity is all we have.
Yes, the anti-malaria drugs can mitigate the symptoms...
As long as it’s not MADE IN CHINA it may be an option for high risk citizens.
The swine flu vaccine was also one of the greatest historical disasters as vaccines go.
If China has a massive vaccine campaign ready to go in April...
They had the vaccine to begin with.
A novel vaccine made in China... you first!
Same story as everyone else in the race. Phase I, II and III testing this year, each in abbreviated form.
Millions of dosses from multiple vendors at the beginning of 2021.
All these dosses, hundreds of millions, will be needed world wide.
Has Bill Gates been anywhere near the vaccine?
Next year is too late. This bull shi! is getting real tired. It better be ready by next October for any vaccine to work over the virus season. just get their silly arses in gear.
No, won’t take it, never.
A novel vaccine made in China... you first!
Again, I will let a million Chinese go first, which is likely. If it proves safe and effective than I will use. It would be stupid not too.
High risk (over 60 first). It will disappear.
Given that two other companies have already started human trials, I’m not sure what this announcement is.
The problem is, in the future, as soon as anyone so much as sneezes in China, everybody is going to panic.
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