translated from Spanish: It is part of the world’s largest clinical trial for a vaccine and will include Chile

US company Johnson & Johnson announced the start of clinical studies for the coronavirus vaccine it develops with belgian laboratory Janssen, which will involve testing in the largest number of people in the world: 60,000 patients will receive the dose, including a thousand Chilean volunteers. The company reported that it will also inoculate people in 215 sites in the United States, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. As published in the journal Nature, his bet is based on a single inoculation that has shown almost immediate immune effects in macaques. For this reason, the banking house’s top epidemiological adviser, Anthony Fauci, has commented that it is a “promising” remedy. The announcement thrilled President Donald Trump, who called it “big news.” “Numerous large companies are getting fantastic results,” he added on Twitter, where he labeled the drug regulatory agency, the FDA, to speed up its approval. “He must move fast!” he emphelled it. Trump wants at least one emergency vaccine to be approved in October, something the Pfizer and BioNtech consortium also hopes to achieve, with which Chile has just sealed an agreement to acquire 10.1 million doses starting next year. Specialists fear regulators will act under pressure from Trump, who longs to offer a vaccine before the November 3 presidential election. Janssen works with the U. of Chile in the country. The proposal considers vaccinating at the Hospital Exequiel González Cortés de San Miguel and in the Cesfam Colina y Esmeralda, Colina; and the Joan Alsina de San Bernardo.His managers have explained that the volunteers will be health workers, neighbors and officials of a local food company. The government’s idea is that clinical studies will then be transferred into access to their products. This week La Moneda announced that four trials will be conducted and agreements were signed that will insure 32.5 million doses from next year.” This is a very important step,” said the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris.La a Chilean idea yesterday is to immunize 80% of the population, starting with 5 million who will be health workers, over 65, chronically ill and people living in closed facilities. Paris said the vaccine will be free for them.

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