An-Najah News - Dr. Muhammad Al-Albar, one of the leaders of the “I believe in the science” initiative, confirmed that since the beginning of the outbreak of the corona virus, many companies in the world, especially the United States of America, began clinical trials to develop a vaccine for the virus, but they have not yet been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to implement Any vaccine in terms of clinical trials.

The Dr. said. In an interview with An-Najah news TV “There is actually real research to develop a vaccine for the corona virus, which is a reality and tangible just before the start of the pandemic in the United States of America, where experimenting with a vaccine has moved from the second phase to the third, and there are four phases of developing the vaccine, starting with developing the vaccine in the laboratory and then the animals then to humans and then put it to large-scale clinical studies.

He added: “About a month ago, one of the vaccines managed to pass the first and second stages and moved to the third stage, awaiting results, and the delay in developing a vaccine is because the nature of developing and approving drugs and vaccines needs a long time that may extend for a year, and that experimenting with vaccines can be carried out on healthy people, and not sick ones.”

He pointed out that there are several clinical trials conducted in countries such as France and China on the drug “chloroquine” and some AIDS drugs and gave encouraging results. In France, the experiment was conducted on (60) patients in critical condition, a group of them fully recovered, but the number that recovered was small and on a scale Limited and this does not qualify the drug to be put on the market.