China News Service, May 20 (Liu Danyi) reported comprehensively that the epidemic of new coronary pneumonia continued to spread, and vaccine research and development carried people's hope for victory in the fight against the epidemic. But in order to quickly obtain and monopolize the vaccine, the Trump administration not only practices hegemony in the context of global cooperation, wants to achieve "America First", it also urges the development process regardless of expert opinions and scientific laws. American media commented that this may not only cause the United States to "slow it," but it may also cause people to worry about the safety of the vaccine.
The new crown vaccine is first available to the United States?
Trying to buy out R & D rights, hegemony provokes anger
Since the outbreak of the New Crown Outbreak, from stealing his defense epidemic materials to "cutting off supplies" to the WHO, the United States has always practiced hegemonism and "American priority", and is no exception in vaccine projects.
On May 5, local time, when President Trump visited a mask factory in Arizona, he ignored the prompts on the factory floor and conducted inspections without wearing a mask.
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Group Chief Executive Hudson said in an interview with Bloomberg on May 13 that because the US government provided funds to develop new crown vaccines and assumed investment risks, it had priority to pre-purchase vaccines.
This remark caused dissatisfaction in French public opinion. French Prime Minister Philippe came out on the 14th to "emergency fire extinguishment", saying that if the new crown vaccine is successfully developed, it is a global well-being and everyone has equal opportunities. This is indisputable.
This is not the first time the United States has attempted to "take over" the vaccine. As early as March this year, the German "Sunday" reported that a German pharmaceutical company was being targeted by Trump because of the development of a new coronavirus vaccine. The US government intends to spend a lot of money to dig up the company's employees Go, let them "develop vaccines specifically for the United States."
Trump also set a high price tag for the exclusive right to buy the pharmaceutical company's scientific research results. German Foreign Minister Mas insisted that the German government would not allow the United States to advance such a plan.
In addition, the British "Financial Times" reported that the United States on May 19 refused to respond to a draft resolution of the World Health Assembly, which supports poor countries to obtain new coronavirus vaccines or therapies, and ignore patent rights.
In the 2001 Doha Declaration of the WTO, ministers of WTO member states stated that in the face of public health emergencies, governments can ignore intellectual property rights.
On the issue of the new crown vaccine, "The United States does everything it can to try to downplay content related to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and patent applications." A West African ambassador to Geneva said, "The United States is confident that Was the first country to get the vaccine. But that may not be the case. "
"Curve acceleration" R & D, Trump personally directed
Expert opinion ignored
Trump said on April 30 that the United States plans to accelerate the development of new coronavirus vaccines, a project known as “curve acceleration operations”.
When asked who was in charge, Trump replied: "To be honest, it's me."
In view of Trump's previous series of words and deeds around New Coronary Pneumonia, many Americans expressed their doubts and worries online.
Some netizens said that Trump said he was responsible for vaccine development, which means "you will never get a vaccine, or you may be killed by his vaccine. Because he will either do nothing or mess up things." ".
Netizen jerry stern said that because of Trump's hasty actions and "let people who only care about money be responsible for vaccine production, vaccines may kill more people."
Others said, "Trump is the person I least want to be responsible for the vaccine, especially thinking of his previous remarks about injections (disinfectants)."
Trump has repeatedly stated that a new coronavirus vaccine may be developed within a few months. But health experts and senior vaccine developers say that this accelerated timetable is unlikely, unless there is a "miracle."
On May 14, Trump wrote on social media: "Vaccine development work is hopefully completed by the end of the year."
According to Bloomberg News, senior medical consultants led by American infectious disease expert Fuch said that the new coronavirus vaccine will take at least 12 to 18 months to be ready. Kaputuo, a spokesman for the US Department of Health and Human Services, said that Trump refused to accept and follow the "standardized" schedule for vaccine development, and encouraged researchers to adopt breakthrough procedures.
Data graph: Fuch, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The New York Times stated that under normal circumstances, a vaccine may take more than 10 years to pass all regulatory approvals. During the administration of former President Ford, the United States rushed to develop a swine flu vaccine, which caused dozens of deaths and devastating consequences.
On April 22, Bright, an American expert involved in the development of a new coronavirus vaccine, was suddenly dismissed.
Brett said: "I think I was dismissed because I insisted that the government invest billions of dollars in the New Crown Outbreak Response Fund allocated by Congress into safe and scientifically reviewed responses. It was not used for lack of scientific value. Of medicines, vaccines and other technologies. "
He said: "I speak now because to fight this deadly virus, science-not politics or cronyism-must be the way to go."
Say leaks? The United States has started to develop vaccines on January 11
The people questioned why they did not prevent the epidemic
On May 15th, US President Trump revealed at a press conference in the White House that the United States had started developing a new coronavirus vaccine on January 11.
Trump also emphasized that "on January 11, most people do not yet know what happened." Indeed, on January 12, China first shared the genome sequence information of the new coronavirus with the World Health Organization. Only on January 21, the United States reported the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia.
Since the United States has long known about the new coronavirus, and has begun to study ways to defeat it, why not remind everyone to prevent it in time? American netizens fry the pan for a while.
Netizen BioncaLori said: "You were developing vaccines on January 11, but you did not take action to protect the public until March 14."
Netizen Peter Roberts said: "Trump said today that the new coronavirus vaccine study started on January 11, but he played golf for two months and participated in the 'Make America Great Again' rally around the country until The White House outbreak response team was formed in mid-March. After so long, how many Americans died? "
Netizen Erik said: "You said that China did not share information about the virus, but the problem is that the United States has started developing vaccines on January 11, what have you done?"
Anti-vaccine organizations manipulate social networks
Some Americans lack confidence in vaccines
After the new coronavirus vaccine is developed, will it be fine even if it is not shared with other countries? I am afraid the next question is, what should the American people dare not get vaccinated?
The confidence of the American people in vaccines has been declining. A survey by the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) shows that one in four people in the United States believes that even if the vaccine is safe and effective, they are unlikely to get the vaccine.
"New York Times" an article called "If there is a new crown vaccine, but Americans refuse to be vaccinated? ”Article pointed out that the activities of anti-vaccination group members on social networking sites are organized and strategic. They are "smart media operators, efficient communicators" and are good at exploiting the weaknesses of social media platforms.
A recent study published in the scientific journal Nature, traces the discussion of vaccines on Facebook during the measles outbreak in 2019. The study found that active anti-vaccine groups are almost three times that of supporting vaccine groups. Although pages that support vaccines often have more followers, the number of pages that oppose vaccines has grown faster.
In addition, Trump himself has repeatedly publicly opposed the vaccine. He even claimed that children's autism is related to vaccination. In the face of the new crown epidemic's change of attitude, I am afraid that many people who support him will be confused.
Image source: Screenshot of Trump's social networking account in 2014.
As the New York Times puts it, the lives of millions of people and trillions of dollars of economic activity may not only depend on the production of vaccines, but also on how to persuade Americans to treat and accept vaccines. (Finish)