^^^this
Stuff already in clinical trials, with compressed protocols to speed everything up to the absolute max, might result in vaccines being available next year. Lead times are long and you can't shorten them really. The actual same day China published the genome at least one academic group produced a potential vaccine molecule which is even now in this accelerated trials process.
There will be no vaccine this year.
What there might be is drugs which mitigate the impact of the virus on the body. A number of drugs already cleared for human use in other contexts are being trialled and lead times here are much shorter - this is where the shorter-term hope is, not in vaccines, though vaccines are obviously the long-term "solution" (until covid mutates again). We're still looking at "several months" though.
Posted By: Yurik Hunt on April 1st 2020 at 14:36:28
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- ^^^this (Coronavirus) - Yurik Hunt, Apr 1, 14:36:28
- Wishful thinking. Manufacturing in June when they haven't started clinical trials. (n/m) (Coronavirus) - The Gaffer, Apr 1, 14:29:46
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