China has mobilized its army and fast-tracked tests in the global race to find a coronavirus vaccine, but its labs also have an image tarnished by past health scandals to overcome.
China has authorized fast-track procedures, allowing preclinical phases — such as animal tests and other studies — to be conducted at the same time instead of one after the other.
Nick Jackson, of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations , however, pointed out that China was not the only country to do this. Parents have held protests and some are scared enough to seek foreign-made vaccines for their children over those made in China., which was fined a record $1.3 billion in 2018 after it fabricated records for a rabies vaccine for humans.
The Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, from the city where the virus first emerged late last year, produced 400,000 doses of DPT that “did not meet the norms,” according to drug regulators. But several other cases have been reported by Chinese media in the past year, including fake vaccines in a southern hospital and children getting shots for the wrong illness in northern Hebei province.
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