Scientists say interest — and funding — waned after SARS died out.
Hotez and Bottazzi hope that NIH, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority or others will fund a new round of studies for their vaccine; a public health emergency declaration for the Wuhan threat would facilitate that. The pair had worked swiftly after SARS swept out of a Chinese live game market in 2003 and across the world, killing 800 people and sickening 10 times that number.
Michael Osterholm, one of the world’s leading experts on pandemics at the University of Minnesota, said the government needs to start looking at vaccines for civilians “as a security procurement,” just as the military does. Otherwise, mistakes are just repeated. While Hotez and Bottazzi try to wrangle finances for their work, a London-based group called the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, which was created in 2017, has already committed $12.5 million to two U.S.-based startups and an Australian university with promising coronavirus vaccine platforms.
The second company, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, based outside Philadelphia, uses vaccines based on inserting virus sequence into bacterial DNA.
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