The joint stance is seen as a bulwark against political pressure being applied on the FDA to release a vaccine as soon as possible.
At the same time, President Donald Trump has accused the agency of slowing work to hurt him politically, and said he believed a vaccine would be ready before election day on November 3.
Much of the vaccine work is being done under the umbrella of the government's Operation Warp Speed, which has struck deals with drugmakers to fund development and manufacturing. "Most of the principals in our industry and their scientific teams would say we're not going to make something or we're not going to sell it until we've proven to our own standards it's safe and effective, subjected it to scientific scrutiny from the outside world," Ricks said.Final-stage vaccine trials are rushing toward completion, and earlier this week Pfizer said it could have results by October.
A technician tests samples of a potential COVID-19 vaccine at a production plant of SinoPharm in Beijing in April.Last week, Britain said it was preparing to revise its laws so that any effective coronavirus vaccine could be used before it was fully licensed.
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