Posted on 05/04/2020 12:04:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As scientists around the world race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, researchers at Oxford University have now pulled into the lead. The team recently began testing a vaccine candidate in people that—if effective—could possibly become available as early as September, the New York Times reported on April 27. That would be well before any other vaccine effort currently underway is expected to reach the finish line.
The researchers were able to move swiftly because they had already developed a vaccine candidate for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a virulent respiratory disease caused by another member of the coronavirus family. Last year they showed that the vaccine was safe in people and prompts an immune response that lasts for at least a year. In January, the group began adapting the technique to create a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19.
“This is a promising vaccine candidate,” says Sarah George, an infectious disease researcher at Saint Louis University who is leading a clinical trial for remdesivir, an antiviral that is being investigated as a treatment for COVID-19. “We don’t know if it’s going to work, but the idea is good.”
Most vaccine candidates fail during some stage of testing. It’s therefore plausible—but very far from certain—that this particular vaccine might be available by autumn, George says.
To create their vaccine, the Oxford team genetically engineered a virus that is harmless in people to carry genetic material from SARS-CoV-2. The virus they chose, which belongs to a family called adenoviruses, causes a common cold in chimpanzees. The researchers modified the virus so that it could not replicate in people; this approach has previously been used to test vaccines for more than 10 different diseases, though none has made it to market.
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HERE’s THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PLAN:
For the first human trial of the new COVID-19 vaccine, the researchers recruited 1,110 healthy volunteers from around the United Kingdom. Half will be randomly assigned to receive the COVID-19 vaccine candidate; the rest will be given a meningitis vaccine as a placebo.
The team hopes to confirm that the vaccine won’t cause side effects any more serious than a sore arm, headache, or mild fever, and show that it induces a strong response from the immune system.
By the end of May, the scientists will begin a larger trial with 5,000 volunteers and follow them over time to see if the vaccine actually prevents people from catching COVID-19. How long it takes to show that the vaccine is effective will depend on how the pandemic plays out.
If the United Kingdom’s outbreak of COVID-19 calms down and fewer people in the community become infected over the summer, it will be more difficult to tell how much protection the vaccine offers.
SO does their “MERS vaccine” work or is it simply a “vaccine candidate”? They developed it and put it into test last year. Approaching half way into this year. And they THINK their CV vaccine will be ready by September?
When will it be ready for widespread use? September 2021?
Are we all to sit on our thumbs until then?
Bill Gates is seeking exemption from legal liability if his (mandatory) vaccine causes side effects (upwards of 700,000 afflicted by his global estimate).
so....won’t they have to end the lockdowns to have any idea whether or not this trial is successful?
Just this weekend Yahoo News was mocking President Trump for suggesting that a vaccine could be available before the end of the year. They also put in a jab about him touting an “unproven” therapy. It was time to trot out their “U.S. health experts” who disagreed with him.
The issue isn’t a vaccine.
The issue is, will you be allowed in public without a test and a vaccine, cuz see, if you don’t get the vaccine, you’re “Killing people!”
we’ve got good treatments, good prophylaxis, and now a vaccine. Game over dems, thanks for playing.
Everything the commie left mocks Trump about, a week later we find out that Trump was right..yet the commies never apologize
Load of grubbing crap.
End of the article says “Until then, keep on social distancing.”
Happy Trails to You!
If it gets any shorter it will be nothing but saline and a chip.
“the commies never apologize”
Worse, whatever it was they mocked Trump with gets flushed down the Memory Hole and disappears forever. But (I suppose) gullible people remember the original mocking and that sticks with them for all eternity.
“Trump did too little.”
“Trump acted too late.”
“Trump told people to drink Lysol.”
etc, etc, etc
That is a Horse Shiite Headline
They have no idea really when a vaccine will be produced, if ever...
They’ll have to sabotage it, otherwise, Trumps wins.
I will exercise my constitutional rights everywhere I go. Several at the same time.
My first and SECOND for example.
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