The UN health agency welcomed the fact that a "considerable number" of vaccine candidates had entered final stage trials
The Hill: WHO does not expect widespread coronavirus vaccines until mid-2021
The global health organization stressed the importance of reliable and transparent data from studies.
* Officials at the World Health Organization don't expect an effective COVID-19 vaccine to be ready until mid-2021.
* The agency launched COVAX, a global initiative to share COVID-19 treatments between countries.
The World Health Organization (WHO) doesn’t expect a COVID-19 vaccine to be widely available until mid-2021, according to Reuters.
Despite dozens of vaccine candidates entering various levels of clinical trials, Margaret Harris, a spokesperson from the WHO, said that none of the vaccine hopefuls have shown a “clear signal” of efficacy by at least 50 percent, the threshold expected by the WHO.
“We are really not expecting to see widespread vaccination until the middle of next year,” Harris reportedly said during a U.N. meeting in Geneva.
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WHO has been so reliable before we should believe them totally, lol!
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