In Louisiana, amid skyrocketing rates of the novel coronavirus and a statewide stay-at-home order, scientists are finding themselves face-to-face with the virus they hope to develop a vaccine for.
is using a vaccine that had been developed to prevent SARS and MERS, two other pathogens that fall in the coronavirus family. Bohm said the researchers working on the vaccine were able to move quickly into human clinical trials because the vaccine had already been tested in animals and proven safe.
"These laboratories are incredibly specialized so when you look in a space like this, you’re going to see, basically, a tight seal offering maximum containment," Birnbaum explained. There are different levels of protocols necessary for the researchers to enter different labs, too. In some, they may not be allowed to wear street clothes under their personal protective gear, Birnbaum said. They might have to wear double layers of gloves or a mask that pushes air out so that a virus can’t accidentally reach their mouth, nose or eyes. As they leave, they also have to go through the proper decontamination and sterilization procedures, Bohm said.
"So, we’re really trying to think outside the box and figure out ways to carry this on because we’re all heart and soul into it," she continued."But, you know, there are so many things that are flying at us and the other centers are dealing with that, too." The Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, Louisiana, is part of a network of seven national nonhuman primate research centers across the United States.all residents of the state to stay home on Sunday, March 22, the same day that he said during a press conference that the state had seen faster growth in the number of COVID-19 cases in the first 13 days than any other state or country in the world.
Bohm is also concerned for the monkeys. With 4,500 monkeys living on the property, he said there’s a"high suspicion" that rhesus macaques are susceptible to the novel coronavirus based on preliminary data.
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