USA TODAY's expert panel sees steady progress toward a safe and effective COVID vaccine, urge public's patience as trials proceed and data comes in.
for the release of one or more COVID-19 vaccines.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must give its blessing for any amount of vaccine to be distributed. Exactly how that will happen is something USA TODAY's panelists are watching. The Biotechnology Innovation Organization issued a public letter Sept. 3 reiterating the strict standards its members hold themselves to.
“I really don't think we can have safety data that is good enough until at least winter . Shorter than that is too little time, no matter what the results show,” said Yang, a professor of medicine and associate chief of infectious diseases at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.
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