It is expected to take at least a year to a year in a half for a vaccine to be available for use, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warns.
"This is strong evidence that the vaccine created by Novavax has the potential to be highly immunogenic in humans which could lead to protection from COVID-19 and helping to control the spread of this disease," said Matthew Frieman, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"Our goal is to enable the supply of more than 1 billion doses of the vaccine globally," vice chairman of the executive committee and chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson, Paul Stoffels, told Yahoo earlier this month. Emory University's VTEU in Atlanta, Georgia was added by the NIAID, which is funding the trial, as a second test site for the first phase of the study.
Working with a base vaccine for other similar coronaviruses, Gilbert's team managed to speed up a development process that would normally take around five years to around four months. Gilbert previously stated that she gives the vaccine an 80 percent chance of being successful based on evidence that she has seen.China is looking at three potential vaccines, including one by Chinese biopharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics, developed in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology. The first phase of clinical trials for the team's Ad5-nCoV vaccine was launched last month.
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