Posted on 04/17/2020 12:07:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A vaccine for COVID-19 may be available by September, according to Oxford University scientists who are developing the vaccine.
A report in The Times of Israel said the scientists are expected to commence human trials next week for a coronavirus vaccine. A total of 510 people between the ages of 18 and 55 have been recruited to take part in the trial, The Times said, quoting British tabloid The Daily Mail.
The subjects will receive either the vaccine developed at the university or a control injection for comparison.
“We are going into human trials next week. We have tested the vaccine in several different animal species,” says professor Adrian Hill. “We have taken a fairly cautious approach, but a rapid one to assess the vaccine that we are developing.”
The vaccine may be ready as soon as September, Dr. Sarah Gilbert, a professor of vaccinology at Oxford from the same team, told The Times on Saturday. She said she was “80 percent confident” that the vaccine being developed by her team of researchers would work and would become available to the general public in about five months.
She also said the team is in talks with the British government to begin production as soon as possible. “We don’t want to get to later this year and discover we have a highly effective vaccine and we haven’t got any vaccine to use,” she said.
Two groups in the United States and one in China have already commenced human trials.
Over 60 potential vaccine candidates and treatments for coronavirus are being developed in labs around the world, most in pre-clinical stages. US company Moderna began clinical trials last month.
In Israel, scientists at the state-funded Migal Galilee Research Institute have said that their vaccine for coronavirus was on track to be ready for testing within “a few weeks” though it won’t be available for months because of the lengthy and sometimes bureaucratic testing and approval process.
I have no idea why the government isn’t going Manhattan Project on coming up with a vaccine and getting it out ASAP.
I would be very leery of this. They are under great pressure to calm panic and save face. It could be a half-assed vial of danger or a placebo.
There are 90 different vaccine projects ongoing.
How many more do you think are necessary?
is bill gates involved in this at all?
30-40 or 1000 at least
I agree with you completely. Also (at least IMHO), one of the saddest and most frustrating things about the whole situation is that there would not be any panic TO calm, had the media and certain politicians not created, pushed and continually whipped up that panic in the first place.
It’s the year of the press release. Just put vaccine in the title and get all the free publicity you want.
My Dad worked for a large supplier to GM. He said - never buy new model cars in the first year. The people who do will be the ones discovering the bugs and kinks that the manufacturer will then fix in the 2nd year of the model.
I feel that applies to new vaccines as well.
“There are 90 different vaccine projects ongoing.
How many more do you think are necessary?”
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I expect that one would be all we need. Until that happens life won’t be anywhere near normal for quite some time - months, if not years. If I were running the show, I’d make it job number one to create and distribute a vaccine, as I said, Manhattan Project style. Anything else is like spitting into the ocean.
Pro-virus and Enduring Shutdown trolls inbound in 5... 4... 3....
they can keep it. no thanky
as are most vaccines people are regularly shot up with today.
Every time I see a sentence saying so and so “may” happen
I immediately insert “but probably won’t”
Also sentence is usually followed by some variant of “Give us money”
Hmmm, I think I’d like to wait until after the 3rd or 4th go round.
Sure not wanting to be the first in line for that one.
If they cut back on the sodomy, gin and treason against the West they could probably accelerate their delivery to August.
Vaccines are ONE area where Tony Fauci is right, extensive safety trials are called for.
To this point, we have not developed one successful vaccine for a respiratory virus.
On the other hand, it may not!
“I feel that applies to new vaccines as well.”
As it did more recently with the first batch of COVID-19 tests that the CDC initially came out with. 30% error rate.
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