Phase III Vaccine Trials Could Start In July
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
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Around the world, 10 vaccine candidates have begun human trials.
COVID-19 has killed nearly 110,000 people in America. And black Americans are dying at nearly two and half times the rate of white Americans. As NPR's Stacey Vanek Smith and Greg Rosalsky report on the economic reasons why.
Plus, WAMU reporter Jacob Fenston reports on 85-year-old Margaret Sullivan, who feels like she's been "living in a bubble" since the start of the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | February 29th. That was the day the first person in the US was reported dead from the virus. |
| 0:07.6 | And that was 96 days ago. Just today, for the first time, the federal government said states have |
| 0:14.4 | to keep track of who is getting sick and who is dying based on their age, their sex, |
| 0:21.6 | and their race and ethnicity. I personally want to apologize for the inadequate adequacy of our |
| 0:28.3 | response. It wasn't intentional. At CDC director Robert Redfield apologizing, these requirements |
| 0:34.7 | were not put in place sooner in front of a congressional committee today. They were mandated. |
| 0:39.6 | Congresswoman Barber Lee pointed out in the last aid package passed by Congress in April. |
| 0:44.8 | At the CDC and the Trump administration did not complete the assignment at all. |
| 0:49.6 | The CDC did not make the requirement official until now. I apologize and unfortunately, |
| 0:56.6 | it was under my signature, so I take responsibility, but we are correcting it. |
| 1:01.4 | Coming up vaccine testing on thousands of people could be a month away. This is coronavirus daily |
| 1:07.2 | from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Thursday, June 4th. |
| 1:17.2 | Around the world, there are 10 vaccine candidates that have started human trials. Those trials have |
| 1:23.7 | three, sometimes four phases. And here's how they go. Phase one, the vaccine is tested on a small |
| 1:30.3 | group of volunteers. To see whether they, in fact, in a small number of volunteers do produce a |
| 1:36.1 | decent level of antibodies, which would tend to predict that they're going to work. Dr. Francis |
| 1:41.5 | Collins is director of the National Institute of Health. And they have to also show in a small |
| 1:45.3 | number of volunteers that they're safe. Some of the 10 candidates are passed that first phase |
| 1:50.6 | and into phase two, which expands the number of people tested. 600 people in one current trial. |
| 1:56.8 | This is moving at an unprecedented speed, recognizing that we really only knew about this virus back |
| 2:02.5 | in January. Phase three is where things get really big, like 30,000 people. Half of them receiving |
| 2:10.5 | the vaccine and half of them receiving a placebo that looks and feels just like the same thing, |
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