To stop this modern plague medical teams all over the world are working around the clock to come up with a vaccine. On Tuesday, American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced a breakthrough that could render the needed aid as soon as the fall.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told The Wall Street Journal that the firm could be poised for broad distribution of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year. But the vaccine could be operational months sooner. “This is a crisis right now, and a solution is desperately needed by all,” said Bourla.
The WSJ further reports, “While many point to a vaccine as the surest path back to normal, public health experts see another way that’s no less daunting: millions more tests; 100,000 or more health workers to track and isolate those exposed to COVID-19, and a seamless data network to coordinate the effort.”
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What do all these efforts have in common? They have been supported and sponsored by the Trump administration’s public/private partnership to fight the coronavirus.
Myriad firms such as Walmart, Pfizer, Abbott, Walgreens, LabCorp, Quest, CVS, Roche and others have been in on the fight from the beginning, as the president and his team reached out to the best and brightest in America’s free market system to combat the virus.
In the greatest private sector mobilization since WWII, thousands of tons of vital masks, scrubs, ventilators, and other equipment have flowed into the warehouses and stockpiles of federal and state governments.
Though Pfizer is leading the way toward a vaccine, many other firms are in the hunt. If by fall they can indeed start inoculation, then coronavirus, like polio and smallpox before it, can be consigned to the pages of history.
This mammoth effort will not be enough for some. Democrats and others who would score political points off of a public health crisis will continue to kibbitz from the bleachers. The president and his team will continue to work for solutions.
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on April 29, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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