COVID-19: Government Poised to Amend Regulations to Allow Use of Unlicensed Vaccine

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Experts say robust legal protections are needed to inspire public confidence. Clare Dyer reports

By Clare Dyer

Global Research, October 30, 2020BMJ 28 September 2020

The UK government has set out plans to amend drug regulations in case it decides that covid-19 vaccines should be used before they are licensed, in a bid to roll them out more quickly.1

In a consultation on the proposals that ran from 28 August to 18 September the Department of Health and Social Care for England explained that if a suitable vaccine emerged with strong evidence of safety, quality, and efficacy the government would seek to license it through the usual route but could supply it in the meantime.

“Unlicensed” not “untested”

The consultation document said that if there were a “compelling case, on public health grounds, for using a vaccine before it is given a product licence, given the nature of the…

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