Pence spoke about the beginning of the third phase of trials of a vaccine against coronavirus

“Today is the first day of the third phase of clinical trials (vaccine against COVID-19. - RT ) in the United States,” he wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, the American leader Donald Trump said that the US authorities bought 90% of the world stock of the drug Remdesivir, which is used in the treatment of patients with coronavirus infection.

On July 22, it became known that the German BioNTech and the American Pfizer agreed with the US government to supply 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for a total of almost $ 2 billion.