Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine was interviewed about Russia’s claims that it has approved a COVID-19 vaccine. “When Vladimir Putin says that it looks good, it’s safe, it’s effective, what he means is that there have been these patients presumably producing antibodies—and nobody died,” he said. “But he can’t possibly know that what they have in Russia is safe or effective, really, until they move to Phase III trials. Which doesn’t even start until next week.”

August 11, 2020 ・ From Politico.com