It is important not to rush to produce the COVID-19 vaccine.
The statement came from Israeli professor Jacob Berkun, Qadin.Net reports citing publika.az.
The head of the Hadassah Medical Center in Israel considers it important that thousands of people from different groups participate in the third phase of testing to ensure the effectiveness and reliability of the COVID-19 vaccine before mass application.
"These are not test drugs that we give to cancer patients. The vaccine should not be put at risk because it is injected into healthy people. Vaccine failure could further strengthen the anti-vaccination movement, ”he said.
The president of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriyev, said on August 3 that the COVID-19 vaccine would be licensed within 10 days.