Mass testing has begun from two healthcare companies .
Those tests will administer 60,000 vaccine doses to those willing to be the first to try the experimental vaccines….
IF things work right?
They will be the first to gain an imnuity from the Covid-19 ….
But already there are worries that the vaccine effort is moving too fast….
Donald Trump WILL be stand-in g upon and saying his ‘October Surprise’ will and vaccine rollout….
That’s Political….
Trump needs whatever he can get….
The question will be the health and trust from Americans…
The ensuing race for a vaccine — in the middle of a campaign in which the president’s handling of the pandemic is the key issue after he has spent his time in office undermining science and the expertise of the federal bureaucracy — is now testing the system set up to ensure safe and effective drugs to a degree never before seen.
Under constant pressure from a White House anxious for good news and a public desperate for a silver bullet to end the crisis, the government’s researchers are fearful of political intervention in the coming months and are struggling to ensure that the government maintains the right balance between speed and rigorous regulation, according to interviews with administration officials, federal scientists and outside experts.
Even in a less politically charged environment, there would be a fraught debate about how much to accelerate the process of trials and approval. The longer that vaccines are tested before being released, the likelier they are to be safe and effective.
But with 1,000 people dying each day in the United States, schools finding it difficult to reopen and the deep recession inflicting economic pain across the country, the desire to find a way to return to normal life is powerful and transcends partisan politics and borders. On Sunday, Russia announced that it planned to start a nationwide inoculation campaign in October with a vaccine that had yet to complete clinical trials, the latest evidence of the global potential for cutting corners.
Despite concerted efforts by the Trump administration and a bevy of pharmaceutical companies it is working with, the original October target has slipped, with the administration now pushing to have hundreds of millions of doses available by the end of the year or early 2021.
But experts inside and outside the government still say they fear the White House will push the Food and Drug Administration to overlook insufficient data and give at least limited emergency approval to a vaccine, perhaps for use by specific groups like front-line health care workers, before the vote on Nov. 3…..
It’s going to require a mammoth effort just to get health workers vaccinated and Trump has shown how incompetent his administration has been during this entire crisis.
Assuming an effective vaccine is found,it will be months before large scale vaccinations begin.