The race to come out with vaccine is accelerating around the world…
A British group at Oxford University maybe the first group to offer a drug to go out to the public by the summer, before a possible fall virus resurgent ….
The guess by one scientist is that their vaccine may only have limited immunity…
Sir John Bell, the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, said Sunday that researchers at the university working on a potential vaccine for the coronavirus would likely have an idea of its efficacy by June.
Bell told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” that researchers hope to generate enough data from Phase Two trials to “get evidence that the vaccine has efficacy by the beginning of June.”
Bell called the chances of success in developing a vaccine “pretty good,” adding “we are gradually reeling it in, bit by bit and as every day goes by, the likelihood of success goes up.”
If the disease “peters out in the U.K.,” Bell added, “we have sites already in play in other parts of the world where it’s active.”
“Coronavirus doesn’t mutate at the pace of flu as far as we can see but it’s also quite a tricky virus in terms of dictating long-term immune responses to it and as a result I suspect we may need to have relatively regular vaccinations against coronavirus going into the future,” Bell added. “That of course remains to be seen but that’s my bet at the moment, is that this is likely to be a seasonal coronavirus vaccine.”…
Scientists are also curious why some placse have aggressive corona virus spreads and others do not…
The Dominican Republic has reported nearly 7,600 cases of the virus. Just across the border, Haiti has recorded about 85.
In Indonesia, thousands are believed to have died of the coronavirus. In nearby Malaysia, a strict lockdown has kept fatalities to about 100…
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The question of why the virus has overwhelmed some places and left others relatively untouched is a puzzle that has spawned numerous theories and speculations but no definitive answers. That knowledge could have profound implications for how countries respond to the virus, for determining who is at risk and for knowing when it’s safe to go out again.
Push back on speeding up an American vaccine…
Public health experts are pushing back on President Trump’s claim that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available by the end of the year.
The Trump administration is racing to get a vaccine to the market quickly with “Operation Warp Speed” and has started to whittle down candidates.
The project’s goal is to have 300 million vaccine doses available by January, an accelerated version of the administration’s previous projections of needing 12-18 months to get a vaccine ready for the public.
Drug industry experts say the new timeline is unrealistic. Many of the vaccine candidates are still in the early stages of development, and proving safety in humans is a time consuming task.
Even if a vaccine were produced before 2021, experts agree that hundreds of millions of doses, at a minimum, would be required to prevent the disease from spreading across the entire country….
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Some of us are of the view that President Trump WILL ok accelerated production of an American vaccine once one is doing good in trails just like the push and emergency production for the remdesivir virus treatment drug….The ‘experts’ don’t get the final say on this…The ‘Donald’ does…