Anti Covid vaccine: good China, bad USA. Ricciardi’s report cards (anti-Trumpian?) (WHO-Health)
What Walter Ricciardi, Italian member of the board of the World Health Organization (WHO) and consultant to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, said about China and the USA on the subject of the anti Covid vaccine and more
The anti-US tones continue by Walter Ricciardi, an Italian member on the board of the World Health Organization (WHO) and consultant to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza.
After Ricciardi's anti-Trumpian tweets and tweets in recent months about Coronavirus and its surroundings , Ricciardi's report cards on vaccines in the pipeline against Covid are now arriving and also in this case there are praise for China and reprimands for the United States.
Interviewed by the newspaper La Stampa directed by Massimo Giannini, the consultant of the Department of Health rejects without appeal the news that the American Food and Drug Administration is considering giving the green light to an anti Covid vaccine without even waiting for the end of phase 2. of the experiments.
"We are shocked to see what is happening in the United States where there is a total disconnect between politics and science and where the former is trying to force and is not guided by scientific evidence," Ricciardi said .
“Yesterday the five million infections were exceeded and unfortunately between now and the end of the year there will still be thousands of deaths. Now, to address the situation, we try again to impose solutions on science, but we cannot speed up times because vaccines must be proven to be safe even before efficacy: it is not possible to derogate from adequate methods and times ", he added. the Italian member on the board of the World Health Organization (WHO)
"Not doing phase three – continued Ricciardi – means giving access to the market a product that can be dangerous and that can not create sufficient immunity: it is wrong and dangerous".
As for the Russian Sputnik vaccine , Ricciardi states: “We know nothing about the Russian vaccine, there is not even a publication. In Europe, no authority would allow its dissemination. The EMA wouldn't even take it into consideration ”.
“The case of China is different – according to Ricciardi – With Oxford AstraZeneca, the CanSino Biologics vaccine is probably the one in the most advanced stage. By October AstraZeneca is expected to publish the results of phase 3 and in the same period, CanSino, which is experimenting with volunteers of the armed forces, could do so too. If all goes as we hope, the first doses of the vaccine could be on the market by the end of the year. But for vaccines, as for drugs, you can't try shortcuts and burn time. Not doing phase 3 means getting a product that has not been tested on thousands of people on the market ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vaccino-anti-covid-bene-cina-male-usa-le-pagelle-anti-trumpiane-di-ricciardi-oms-salute/ on Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:03:34 +0000.