![]() NIH chief worried vaccine "skepticism" might cause some to skip coronavirus vaccineĭr. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Rhonda Flores looks at protein samples at Novavax labs in Rockville, Maryland, one of the labs developing a vaccine for the coronavirus, COVID-19. Collins said these types of vaccines “carry no risk of conveying the actual disease.”ĭr. The newer vaccines use only part of the virus, or even just its genetic material. ![]() “There’s always much more concern about safety.” “If you weren’t completely successful in inactivating the virus, you’d have the fear that the vaccine itself could be dangerous,” he said. That approach takes the entire virus to illicit an immune response from the body, but the virus is first inactivated so it won’t cause harm. Francis Collins told CNN.Ĭollins said he also has safety concerns about the older approach favored by the Chinese. Hina has taken a very different approach than the US, with four of its five vaccines in clinical trials using the older approach.īut the director of the US National Institutes of Health says there’s a “need for speed,” and the older approach takes “considerably longer” to develop. ![]() ![]() 'Operation Warp Speed' is fueling vaccine fears, two top experts worry President Donald Trump leads a meeting with the White House Coronavirus Task Force and pharmaceutical executives in Cabinet Room of the White House on March 2, in Washington, DC. ![]()
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