Johnson & Johnson's chief scientific officer said it's unlikely the coronavirus will be eradicated without a vaccine.
Dr. Paul Stoffels, Johnson & Johnson chief scientific officer, says COVID-19 is spreading"so fast" around the world and it won't pass without a vaccine. "We need these sort of efforts at J&J -- and others are doing them," Dr. George Yancopoulos, president and chief scientific officer at biotechnology firm Regeneron, said in a joint interview with Stoffels."We need the sort of efforts that we're doing that can provide these immediate sources of both prevention and treatment that can have an impact until we get a vaccine.
"Vaccines can provide permanent immunity to much larger numbers of people. This is why we need all of these efforts," he said. When pressed by Stephanopoulos on whether the expedited pace of treatment development was still safe for consumers, Yancopoulos said,"I think the most important thing -- you already heard from Dr. Stoffels -- is that we have a strong and powerful set of technologies throughout the ecosystem in basic research and in industry that allows us to fight these battles when they appear."
Although he expects his company to produce a vaccine by the end of the year, Stoffels said whether it could be available for consumption would be a decision for the government."Clinical trials will need to be done to show that it's effective and that will take some time.
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