Researches are working on a coronavirus vaccine that they hope will be ready in months even though the process can sometimes take up to a decade.
One aspect the coalition is emphasizing is speed. Advances in genetic technologies and widespread cooperation among scientists around the world are enabling labs to analyze the virus in near real-time.
Novavax, a biotech company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is also banking on the ability to apply lessons learned from previous vaccine development programs. The firm has worked on vaccines for the flu, in addition to pandemic-level outbreaks such as Ebola, SARS and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, another type of coronavirus that was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
Health workers move a patient to a hospital after he was cleared of being infected with Ebola at a Doctors Without Borders treatment center in Butembo, Democratic Republic of Congo on Nov. 4, 2018.Even the most state-of-the-art vaccine development can be a long and expensive process. If researchers can get an experimental vaccine to clinical trials in four months — a feat in and of itself — it would still likely take at least a year before those vaccines are commercially available.
Osterholm said the approval process for new vaccines is lengthy and it’s more often the case that outbreaks have already receded by the time doses are commercially manufactured and available.
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