RE:This is exactly why President Trump selected the top 5 candidates for Operation Warp Speed funding and didn’t put all our eggs in one basket.
Let’s see... Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson’s ( all approved for Emergency Authorization Used )
Novavax’s, which should come next....
So what’s the fifth?
Pfizer wasn’t on that list, AstraZeneca/Oxford was. I don’t recall who the fifth was.
They were the top 5 most promising vaccine candidates back in May/June 2020.
About 90% of all medicines fail Phase 3 clinical trials either for safety issues or efficacy issues. So out of those 5 original candidates, we were lucky to even get 1 that works. That we have 3 safe and effective vaccines today with a fourth (Novavax) on the way is a miracle. With random odds saying you’d get 0-1 out of the 5 through trials, President Trump got 3/5. That’s some incredible foresight.
We don’t need the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine at this point. And based on the problems in the clinical trials and the apparently related problems with reactions in the wild, we shouldn’t authorize it.