{"id":39704,"date":"2020-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/drug-companies-say-ethical-scientific-standards-will-be-followed-in-making-covid-19-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:10:06","slug":"drug-companies-say-ethical-scientific-standards-will-be-followed-in-making-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/drug-companies-say-ethical-scientific-standards-will-be-followed-in-making-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Companies Say Ethical, Scientific Standards Will Be Followed in Making COVID-19 Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The pledge issued Tuesday is meant to increase public confidence in any approved vaccines<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The highest ethical and scientific standards will be followed in testing and manufacturing vaccines against the new coronavirus, the top executives of nine U.S. and European drug companies promise.<\/p>\n<p>In the pledge issued Tuesday and meant to increase public confidence in any approved vaccines, the executives said they will make the well-being of those getting vaccinated their top priority, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>There are concerns that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will yield to pressure from the Trump Administration to approve a vaccine before the completion of tests to prove it is safe and effective.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge was signed by the chief executive officers of Johnson &#038; Johnson, Merck, Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, and Sanofi. BioNTech has teamed with Pfizer on a vaccine now in the final stage of human testing, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/91f3c0d94fd9e9bcb645110c7d2e05a0\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pledge issued Tuesday is meant to increase public confidence in any approved vaccines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}