200 potential vaccines worldwide
Washington: The Corona vaccine will be available to the rest of the world as soon as our needs are met
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Yesterday, the US Secretary of Health, Alex Azar, said that any vaccine or treatment that the United States reaches for the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) will be available to the rest of the world as soon as the needs of his country are met.
There are more than 200 potential vaccines for the disease being developed worldwide, including more than 20 in the clinical trials stage in humans. US President Donald Trump has pledged to provide a vaccine before the end of the year, although vaccines usually require several years of development and testing to ensure safety and effectiveness.
Azar told reporters during a visit to Taiwan: "Of course, our top priority is to develop and produce an adequate quantity of safe and effective vaccines and treatments approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States."
He added, "But we expect that we will have the capacity, once these needs are met, to make these products available in the world according to fair and equal distribution processes, and we will consult on them with the international community."
The new Corona virus has infected nearly five million people in the United States, and killed more than 160,000 people. The lockdown measures imposed to prevent the spread of the virus have severely damaged the US economy.
On the other hand, billionaire Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, said that it is "astonishing" that the US government has not improved tests to detect the emerging corona virus that causes "Covid-19", which he described as slow and lacking access and accessibility. To individuals in a fair manner.
"The United States is paying billions of dollars in this extremely unfair way to obtain one of the lowest test results that are worthless compared to any country in the world," Gates added in an interview during a CNN news program. Such a madness of the tests ».
Gates pointed to the long lines of people standing in front of analysis laboratories and commercial tests that are late in the delivery of results.
He added, "Very wealthy people are the ones who can get quick-results bypass tests," noting that "it is surprising that the government cannot improve the tests."
And Bloomberg News quoted Gates as saying that the failure in the issue of Corona virus tests was due to a variety of early wrong steps taken by the United States, in addition to the politicization of the issue of the tests, according to his description.
US Secretary of Health:
"Developing and producing an adequate quantity of safe and effective vaccines and treatments is our top priority."