Coronavirus or COVID-19 cure is still under a long process for now. This is what Global Health Official revealed on Bloomberg in an exclusive interview when he was asked about the real status of the virus cure in the world. Clearly, the official said that there was already a potential cure for the viral disease, but it's now only on Phase 1, which means it still has a long way to go before officially announcing it as the primary COVID-19 cure. What to do now?
COVID-19 cure is still a long shot from now says Global Health Official; What does this mean?
Bloomberg recently exclusively interviewed Arnaud Bernaert, a representative from the World Economic Forum Head of Global Health and Healthcare, and asked him on his personal views regarding the formulation of COVID-19 cure. Bernaert admitted on air that the cure might take a while to create before officially distributing it around the world and claimed it as the cure for the novel virus.
As estimated by Bernaert, the virus cure might take over a year or exactly 18 months--since the medicine is still on Phase 1-- before people will be cured by the formulation.
"You need to understand that Phase 1 means that we only verify that the vaccine is not toxic to humans. It's a state that is very early on the discovery process. You have to remain and demonstrate efficacy and, most importantly, and the vaccine can be manufactured at the scale which is an issue in the context of existing filling capacity for vaccines globally," said him. "I would say it's promising, but it's still a long way, and I tend to agree with clinical experts on that 18 months is a reasonable time frame of seeing a vaccine."
Experimental COVID-19 vaccine is now on its way to Phase 1
The Biomedical Advanced, Research and Development Authority, was said to be working with pharmaceutical companies such as Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson on creating potential vaccines against the disease. They were supposed to be the company that already reached phase 1 of getting the cure.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci already said that finding the cure for the Coronavirus is their main priority for today and having the phase 1 of the clinical trial of the potential vaccine will be a huge help for their discovery.
"Finding a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 is an urgent public health priority," said him in a statement. "This Phase 1 study, launched in record speed, is an important first step toward achieving that goal."
As of now, authorities around the world are still advising all citizens to be aware of proper hygiene on their residences to protect themselves from getting the virus.
