Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/8eMXEqLnWOc   Our lethargic US government is finally moving on coronavirus vaccines to the tune of $1 billion.  BARDA, the Biomedical Advances Research and Development Authority, part of the Health and Human Services agency, has signed contracts to develop and manufacture a vaccine.    Moderna, a biotech company that has a vaccine candidate, has begun testing it.  BARDA is also talking about alternative vaccines with Pfizer, Sanofi, and Johnson and Johnson’s own labs.    J&J will use the government grant to ramp up manufacturing capacity to produce at least 1 billion doses of the vaccine. Even so,  safe and effective vaccine will not be available until late 2021, but it will come.   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-johnson-johnson/jj-u-s-government-plan-1-billion-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN21H1OY?il=0   https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/j-j-barda-commit-1b-to-covid-19-vaccine-r-d   #covid19 #coronavirus #vaccine