Pharma giant Sanofi is developing a vaccine to fight the deadly coronavirus outbreak using its previous research on SARS
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The French pharma giant has begun researching a vaccine to counteract the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and believes it has a head start on speedy development. Sanofi is building off of prior vaccine research on the 2002-2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The company plans to test that vaccine candidate against the virus that causes the disease known as COVID-19.
. Some are developing vaccines from scratch using info about the virus's genetic code. Others are testing existing drugs as near-term treatment options. The French pharma giant also anticipates speedy development because there is already an approved flu vaccine that uses the same manufacturing platform. Sanofi's Loew said this large-scale manufacturing is a key advantage for Sanofi in being able to quickly ramp up production of doses in a short time.
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