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Operation Warp Speed for a COVID-19 vaccine is not waiting on the results from clinical trials to show whether the vaccine works or not, a Trump administrator told CNN — it’s just going full speed ahead to administer tens of millions of vaccines to Americans by the end of 2020.
“We will be manufacturing hundreds of millions of doses long before Phase 3 clinical trials are complete,” the official told CNN. Phase 3 clinical trials check current standard of care drugs against the new one, judge effectiveness of the new drug and look for possible side effects, including ones that are so severe they could indicate the drug should not be used.
SOURCES:
CNN July 13, 2020
NCCN July 14, 2020