“MY point of view is that we should speak of a vaccine and make predictions on when you will be able to be used on a large scale only once if it is demonstrated the effectiveness, at least on apes. The assumptions you can make when you have a candidate that proves promising. The rest are only words, because we have many examples of vaccines that passing the tests on humans have failed.” To underline this point is Robert Gallo, among the discoverers, in the ’80s, the Aids virus (with Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi) and the first test to diagnose Hiv, now director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland, in the United States. Drugs, “we Look at the serum against the Dengue – noted the expert – that in some cases seemed to could increase the risk of serious infection in patients not previously infected. We must be careful in speaking of the products of this type should be tested at least on monkeys, which have a system response immune similar to that of man. Promise that you will be able to get a vaccine in a year, in a year that is means, you should do when you already have these tests in hand, because otherwise the failure may be just around the corner”.
“A vaccine against the new coronavirus is certainly possible, but in my opinion we should focus more on the most effective tools: the test of early diagnosis through the blood, and antiviral drugs. There are great medicines that are already approved for other uses – stresses – and now in trial in patients Covid-19, that are very promising. I think it is easier to suppress the infection with a medication, in this case”.
