Companies working on coronavirus vaccines pledge to put science above politics

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Top executives of nine drugmakers likely to produce the first coronavirus vaccines signed a pledge to boost public confidence in approved vaccines.

The first wave of coronavirus vaccines might be like a flu shot, experts say, curbing symptoms in some patients but not protecting them from COVID-19.• Make the safety of people who receive coronavirus vaccines their “top priority.”

• Conduct clinical trials of their experimental vaccines according to “high scientific and ethical standards.”• Seek regulatory approval for candidate vaccines only after safety and efficacy have been established through Phase 3 clinical trials.The pledge was signed by the chief executives of American drugmakers Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer, and European companies AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi.

They noted that collectively, their firms have developed more than 70 vaccines against “some of the world’s most complex and deadly public health threats.”The statement comes amid worries that the FDA will be under political pressure from President Trump to provide

 

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...for a price.

I’ll get the vaccine as soon as congress puts liability back on the vaccine manufactures in case I am injured. Deal?

I pledge to try and believe them. What binds them to said pledge?

any 'science' that says they put an injection of disease/pestilence into y'er healthy body... is stupid beyond belief... that's suppos'd to be 'science'?... they done talk'd themselves into some real stupidity there... call'd it 'science'... when it's crime against humanity (:~:)

6 months too late in that promise

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