This is a 'practical and realistic timeline' as vaccines will go through registration then clinical trials for a number of months, says Maria Rosario Vergeire, Health Undersecretar.
As a physician-scientist, I am asked how I can be sure that researchers will develop a successful Covid vaccine — after all, we still don’t have one for HIV.
The virus has divided humans in countless ways — if citizens opt to stay unvaccinated, the virus and messy ethics of compelling vaccination will create another permanent division.
The primary goal of the final study, which will include 30,000 people, will be to show the vaccine prevents people from developing symptoms of Covid-19.
It isn’t yet known whether CNBG’s vaccines, which employ a dead strain of the novel coronavirus to elicit an immune response from the body, can prevent the infection.
Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at Oxford University, told The Times that she is 80 per cent confident the vaccine would work, and could be ready in six months.
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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