(CMC) – The director of research at the Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Cuba
Dr Gerardo Guillen, says a clinical trial is now being held for a vaccine
aimed at activating the immune system to combat COVID-19.
Speaking during a recent television interview, Guillen said that the drug, called CIGB 2020
is undergoing trials at the Luis Diaz hospital in Havana with volunteer patients
suspected of being carriers of the disease.
Some scientists have proposed a way to speed up the process
– by deliberately exposing volunteers to the virus to determine a vaccine’s efficacy.
“This approach is not without risks but has the potential to expedite candidate vaccine testing by many months,”
says Nir Eyal, a professor of bioethics at Rutgers University.
Volunteers would have to be young and healthy, he stresses :
“Their health would also be closely monitored, and they would have access to intensive care and any available medicines.”
The result could be a vaccine that would save millions of lives
by being ready for use in a much shorter time than one that went through standard phase three trials.
The policy of isolation and social distancing has worked. It has reduced the infection rate to a manageable one in most places. One consequence of this success is to increase the sense of safety and the belief that the virus is a hoax being used to take away civil liberties. There is no doubt that the deep state and other agendas will make use of the virus for their purposes. But the virus is definitely real and not a hoax.
A few days ago, one of the most respected publications in the science - "Nature"
dedicated one of his articles to coronavirus vaccines and found that there are 78 confirmed active projects
73 are currently at exploratory or preclinical stages
5 of them are in the first phase of clinical trials
Prof. Radostina Alexandrova, Virologists at the Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ~
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