Operation Warp Speed Candidates Vaxart
Operation warp speed success as 20 million covid vaccine doses expected in december i think its a remarkable achievement within a period of six to seven months said dr.
Operation warp speed candidates vaxart. South san francisco calif june 26 2020 globe newswire vaxart inc a clinical stage biotechnology company developing oral vaccines that are administered by tablet rather than by injection today announced that its oral covid 19 vaccine has been selected to participate in a non human primate nhp challenge study organized and funded by operation warp speed a new national program aiming to provide substantial quantities of safe effective vaccine for americans by january 2021. Thanks to president donald trumps operation warp speed a covid 19 vaccine is close to release and according to researchers it is 90 effective in stopping the spread of the novel virus. Nonetheless the company in june issued a news release that stated. Operation warp speeds goal is to produce and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines with the initial doses available by january 2021 as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development manufacturing and distribution of covid 19 vaccines therapeutics and diagnostics collectively known as countermeasures.
Vaxart inc said on friday it would test its potential covid 19 vaccine on monkeys in a study organized by the trump administrations vaccine acceleration program called operation warp speed. Nasdaqnvax and vaxart nasdaq. Operation warp speed preps for covid 19 vaccine delivery upon fda approval. So much for joe bidens demonstrably false claim that trump has done nothing to stop the coronavirus and his insistence that any vaccine breakthrough would be at least months away.
But the good news was clouded with. The federal governments crash covid 19 response operation is stockpiling vaccine doses that will be free for all americans. Vaxarts covid 19 vaccine selected for the us. Fourteen of the 100 vaccine candidates in development against covid 19 were under study by operation warp speed when it was announced on may 15 with former glaxosmithkline gsk vaccines chairman.
Its unclear which criteria ows uses to pick vaccine candidates.