I think the PLA in China are the most
advanced in their testing they're in the
second phase of their clinical trial so
such a they have a vaccine that they
know is safe and they are there in a
large second placed wrong about 500
people in it
which they're trying to work out whether
it's efficacious and if it is then
they'll go into a production a mass
production phase and larger trials have
a large number of people but it's very
unlikely our government will buy that
vaccine from China or accept it from
China it is in a feature quite a
negative feature of our response in
Britain too this has been ignoring a lot
of the lessons of other countries China
but not only China also Korea on the
basis that our science is superior but
there's an underlying business reason as
well that if we our large pharmaceutical
industries produce a vaccine which is
viable they'll make great deal of money
domestically and internationally from
from selling it so I think vaccines will
be available I think the Chinese are
likely to be there first but many other
people around the world will produce
probably independently and will probably
have several vaccines on the market I
imagine towards the end of this year but
these things have an extended timeline
and its heart in down exactly when it
will be I have seen people for the
reason that you know medicine the
selling of medicines the pharmaceutical
industry is such a multi-billion dollar
industry people very distrustful and
there's increasing kind of them feeling
of an NT VAX campaign even around this
issue but but I must stress that you
know vaccines are effective that vaccine
will protect millions of people who
haven't had the corona virus but I think
there's no way out of the fact that we
need much better basic health measures
of adequate testing adequate contact
tracing and keeping those who have the
virus protected and isolated from the
community who don't put me down for a
Chinese vaccine and include me in the
demand for the nationalization of the
pharmaceutical industry
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