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WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has urged US states to get ready to distribute a potential Covid-19
(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Covid-19) vaccine by November 1 -- two days before the presidential election.

Dallas-based wholesaler McKesson Corp. has a deal with the federal government and will be requesting permits to set up
distribution centers when a vaccine becomes available.

"The normal time required to obtain these permits presents a significant barrier to the success of this urgent public health
program," Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told states in an August 27 letter.

"CDC urgently requests your assistance in expediting applications for these distribution facilities."

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China now has world’s largest navy, eyes Amid LAC row, US calls on China to stop
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar bases 'bullying neighbours'
As per the assessment made by a report The US on Wednesday slammed China for
presented in the US Congress on Tuesday, engaging in a “clear & intensifying pattern of
China now has the largest Navy in the world bullying its neighbors” amid renewed Chinese
which it is looking to use aggressively for incursions into India, while demanding that
setting up logistical bases in the Indo-Pacific Beijing also enter into a dialogue with the Dalai
region to enhance its strategic reach. China has Lama. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo
also been working assiduously towards at least signaled a toughening of the Trump
doubling the number of its nuclear warheads administration's stand on China’s growing
over the next decade. depredations vis-a-vis India.

Redfield asked states to consider waiving requirements that would "prevent these facilities from becoming fully operational by
Nov. 1, 2020."

The CDC provided states with documents giving details of a vaccine rollout plan, adding that they would either be approved as
licensed vaccines or under emergency use authorization.

Recipients would probably require a second "booster" dose, a few weeks after the first, according to the documents.

"Vaccine and ancillary supplies will be procured and distributed by the federal government at no cost to enrolled Covid-19
vaccination providers," say the documents, which also went to New York City, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia and San Antonio.

Priority will be given to essential workers, national security officials, seniors and members of vulnerable racial and ethnic groups,
according to The New York Times.

Three Western drug makers are progressing with their Phase 3 clinical trials, involving tens of thousands of participants.

The three are AstraZeneca (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/AstraZeneca), which is partnering with Oxford University in
England; Moderna, collaborating with the US National Institutes of Health; and the Pfizer/BioNTech alliance.

By the nature of the trials, it is difficult to predict when reliable results will emerge.

Half of the participants in such trials receive an experimental vaccine, while the other half are given a placebo.

Under normal procedures, test administrators must wait -- probably for months -- to see whether there is a statistically significant
difference in the infection rate of the two groups.

The US Food and Drug Administration however has raised the possibility that a vaccine might be given emergency approval
before the end of trials.

A request for such extraordinary approval would have to come from the vaccine developer, FDA chief Stephen Hahn told the
Financial Times in an interview published Sunday.

The FDA has faced mounting criticism from the medical community that it is bowing to political pressure from President Donald
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ready before the election.

In March, the FDA gave emergency authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 after Trump repeatedly
praised its use; the authorization had to be withdrawn in June after serious side effects emerged.

More recently, Hahn delivered a far too optimistic appraisal, during a news conference with Trump, of the effectiveness of
convalescent plasma against the virus.

He said it could save 35 out of 100 patients; the more likely number, experts said, is five in 100.
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"This means mass vaccination nationwide could start in 59 days. FIFTY-NINE DAYS. Is any #COVID19 #vaccine likely to have
completed Phase 3 safety and efficacy clinical trials, and gone through full scientific and @US_FDA review in 59 days?" award-
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..McKesson full licensed access to sites statewide for mass #COVID19
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This means mass vaccination nationwide could start in 59
days. FIFTY-NINE DAYS
Is any #COVID19 #vaccine likely to have completed Phase 3
safety and efficacy clinical trials, and gone through full
scientific and @US_FDA review in 59 days? [Rhetorical
question]
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518 See the latest COVID-19 information on Twitter

"To my knowledge, none of the US #COVID19 #vaccines have finished even enrolling test subjects for Phase 3 trials. Rushing
this to completion within 59 days is DANGEROUS."

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