Seven months after the emergence of the worst global health crisis in a century the race is on to find the medical equivalent of the Holy Grail -- a COVID-19
To date the novel coronavirus has killed about 590,000 people worldwide and infected close to 14 million in 196 countries since the outbreak first emerged in China late last year.
Sinovac's project is among the most advanced -- it will start the testing for its vaccine on volunteers in Brazil this month. Britain, Canada and the United States this week accused Moscow-linked hackers of targeting labs in their countries conducting coronavirus vaccine research.There's a variety of approaches and techniques across proven or experimental vaccines.
An example is to take a virus such as measles and, as the Pasteur Institute is doing, modify it with a coronavirus protein and deploy it againstThen there are new experimental developments involving gene-based DNA or RNA vaccines using fragments of modified genetic material. "A vaccine injection 30 people which gets announced as a result -- well, that's not a result," Delfraissy noted.
The Trump administration has set up"Operation Warp Speed" in a bid to deliver 300 million doses, essentially for US citizens, of a safe, effective vaccine forFirms"are trying to develop a vaccine and at the same time put in place an industrial process to produce it whereas normally you wait to see the results" of the first of those operations, notes Delfraissy.
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