Senator Bill Cassidy (R) - Louisiana
US Senator and physician, Bill Cassidy says currently there are four active COVID-19 vaccine trials going forward, Cassidy anticipates a vaccine will be approved by the end of the year or first of January and begin distribution.
“Frontline workers, people in nursing homes, if they choose, will begin to receive vaccines, vaccines by the way that have been shown to be safe and effective.”
Cassidy says an independent board, not the government or pharmaceutical companies, is monitoring the effectiveness of the vaccines and they will decide if the vaccines should move forward in the approval process.
“Now that independent board will say, okay, we think it’s safe, we think it’s effective. It then goes to the FDA, the FDA reviews it with their own scientist who’s done lots of vaccine work.”
Cassidy says then the FDA and independent board sends their findings back to the company producing the vaccine.
“If the company agrees with the FDA and independent board then they would market it.”
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