MedCity News June 22, 2022
The speed of Covid-19 vaccine trials should inspire the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to accelerate its clinical testing, according to Shweta Maniar, Google Cloud’s director for healthcare and life sciences. She argued that harnessing real-world data will make faster clinical trials achievable for all therapeutics and devices, possibly even eliminating the need to recruit a placebo arm.
The life-saving Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna were developed and cleared by the Food and Drug Administration just 11 months after the U.S. classified the spread of the disease as a public health emergency. The dire circumstances of the pandemic drove this rapid timeline, as well as the drugmakers’ pioneering use of mRNA technology.
The speed of these vaccines’...
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