Posted on 01/23/2020 10:03:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A top official at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said Wednesday that human trials for a vaccine to counter a new strain of coronavirus behind an outbreak of viral pneumonia in China could begin within three months.
In an interview with Bloomberg Law, the director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that his agency is working with Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech company Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine for the disease.
“We’re already working on it," Anthony Fauci told Bloomberg. "And hopefully in a period of about three months, we’ll be able to start a phase one trial in humans."
Fauci added that his agency was also working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to obtain information about how to help physicians around the world identify the disease's symptoms.
“Obviously as is always the case when we have these outbreaks, it’s a lot of collaboration and synergy between the CDC and the WHO and the NIH," he said. "Our job ultimately is to develop countermeasures."
Hundreds of people in China have been sickened by the outbreak, which is thought to have originated in the country's Wuhan province, and in particular at a seafood market now closed by authorities. Nine deaths related to the disease have been reported so far.
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How convenient!
Won’t everyone be dead in three months?
ahh....so THAT’S why the panic being whipped-up to 11.
There’s more money to be made on mandated vaccines.
And that’s just PHASE 1 trial.
How much longer will it take to be approved for mass inoculation?
Hegalian Dieletric, never let a crisis go to waste.
Why don’t we have a vaccine for every virus that’s supposed to be lock up nice and safe?
They can get this one up in 3 months but they’ve been working on the common cold for how long?
Viruses are very dynamic. The mutate & change very quickly.
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