If the United States is the first to develop an effective vaccine against the novel coronavirus, it has to quickly share it with the world, the head of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, told AFP in an interview. President Donald Trump's administration has suggested that while it
If the United States is the first to develop an effective vaccine against the novel coronavirus, it has to quickly share it with the world, the head of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, told AFP in an interview.
"Certainly if we had a vaccine that works, I would want to be sure as quickly as possible, it is available there and in South America -- look at Brazil right now," Collins said. The Trump administration has set a goal of producing 300 million doses by January -- enough to vaccinate the entire population.
The company, which got a government grant of nearly $500 million, reported promising early results from its first clinical tests on a small number of volunteers on Monday. Collins -- a doctor and geneticist who has been the NIH director since 2009, serving under Barack Obama and Trump -- admits that Washington's approach could be seen as"America First.""We do all believe that... everybody ought to have a chance to get access to something that may save their lives at a time of a pandemic like this," he said.
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