Pharmaceutical Companies Sign Joint Pledge Promising a Safe Coronavirus Vaccine as Public Confidence Dips

by Andrew Trunsky

 

Nine pharmaceutical companies signed a joint pledge Tuesday promising to prioritize safety and science regarding the development and distribution of a coronavirus vaccine.

The pledge is meant to counter declining public confidence in an eventual vaccine, Politico reported. An August CNN poll found that just over half of Americans would be willing to take a vaccine once developed, and a recent Politico poll found that over 60% of voters opposed the release of any vaccine that had not undergone full testing.

The executives who signed the pledge said that vaccines would only be submitted for FDA approval or emergency use authorization after having successfully completed a Phase III trial, which involves human testing to ensure a vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. Three vaccines are in Phase III now, Politico reported.

The pledge contrasts President Donald Trump, who has said that a vaccine may be available by late October even though Phase III trials will likely still be in progress, according to public health officials.

“We’ll have a vaccine soon, maybe before a special date. You know what date I’m talking about,” Trump said during a Monday news conference, referring to Election Day.

Most public health experts have said that December 2020 or early 2021 is a more likely timeframe for a vaccine, according to Politico.

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Democrats have weighed in on the eventual completion of a vaccine as well, often in political terms. Vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris said Saturday that she “would not trust Donald Trump” regarding the safety of a vaccine, a comment that led to his response accusing Harris of prioritizing politics over public health.

The pledge, signed by AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer and Sanofi, prioritizes safety, ethics and accessibility.

“We believe this pledge will help ensure public confidence in the rigorous scientific and regulatory process by which COVID-19 vaccines are evaluated and may ultimately be approved,” it says.

Vaccines from AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer are currently in Phase III trials, according to Politico, and Pfizer said that its vaccine could seek regulatory review in October, but only “if – and only if – the pivotal clinical trial proves our vaccine candidate to be safe, effective, and in line with the FDA’s guidance.”

Moncef Slaoui, who leads “Operation Warp Speed,” said that an October timeframe may be too ambitious.

“There is a very, very low chance that the trials that are running as we speak could read before the end of October,” he told NPR last week. “I think it’s extremely unlikely but not impossible, and therefore it’s the right thing to do to be prepared in case.”

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3 Thoughts to “Pharmaceutical Companies Sign Joint Pledge Promising a Safe Coronavirus Vaccine as Public Confidence Dips”

  1. Sim

    What little credibility “Big Pharm” had with me they lost with the Bill Gates foundation and “CRIMES” they committed in India, Kenya, Nigeria, and other countries, even Italian government officials calling for Gates arrest and trial for crimes against Humanity.

    Bill Gates has publical stated that “vaccines are the best way to depopulate”.

    Bill Gates is attempting to create something that we call the “Human Implantable Quantum Dot Microneedle Vaccination Delivery System”, and it needs an enzyme called Luciferase in order to make it work.

    Luciferase is the bio luminous chemical that makes lightning bugs light up, it can be encoded with an ID number and read through the skin with a light,

    Hitler had to tattoo numbers on people, Gates wants to inject the numbers.

    https://www.exposingsatanism.org/luciferase-the-micro-needle-vaccine-delivery-system/

    (Quote) “Dr. Anthony Fauci and colleague David Morens have authored a report that is essentially a “real treatise for elites to control nearly every facet of human activity, human life, human freedoms,” a columnist noted.
    In their article in the science journal Cell, Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, and Morens, an epidemiologist, warned that if humans don’t make significant changes in all activities, that more diseases — more terrible health issues like COVID-19 — will soon come.

    The article is “a globalist dream come true,” Cheryl K. Chumley wrote for The Washington Times on Sept. 5.(quote)

    https://freepressers.com/articles/fauci-s-prescription-journal-article-outlines-plan-to-control-humanity

    If you think the Deep State in Government is bad, you should look under the cover of what is taking place with those in charge of your Health departments.

    They have the will to kill millions of people as they have already done in other countries and blame it on “Bad Medicine”.

    WE’VE ALL SEEN HOW MANY LIES HAVE BEEN TOLD CONCERNING COVID-19.

  2. John

    Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci stands to make billions off his patented delivery mechanism that will be used to distribute this so-call vaccine. It’s amazing how any and all information about this is being scrubbed from the web.

  3. Wolf Woman

    This pledge reminds me of the old saw, “I’m from the government and here to help you.”

    Big Pharma can sign as many pledges as they like. They’re doing this for major profit (think vaccination mandates) and not for humanitarian reasons. Making a profit is not a bad thing, a business has to make money or it won’t last. But this is a tricky business that involves life and death. So I think a vaccine should be approached with all the time and objectivity science can muster.

    And I am suspicious of any endeavor that Bill Gates has a hand in (Moderna) after his debacle with the polio vaccinations made children in Africa and India sick and, even die. He doesn’t have a great track record in public health so far.

    Thanks, guys, but I’ll pass on being a guinea pig.

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