'It's a kind of race, not against other scientists, but against the virus itself,' said Olivier Schwartz, the head of viruses and immunities at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes
Top health experts from around the world are mobilizing to combat the novel coronavirus that has infected more than 77,000 people worldwide.
"Going into a Phase 1 trial does not mean you have a vaccine," Fauci said."It means you have taken the first step towards the vaccine, which by anybody's calculation is going to be at least a year to a year and a half at best, and that is if we proceed under the emergency authorization of the regulatory agencies."
Researchers like Schwartz say the aim is to team up as quickly as possible to tackle the problem. At the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the organization is bringing together researchers and specialists with different expertise in areas such as virology and immunology to address the threat presented by the new coronavirus.
The organization maintains an outpost in the heart of the current coronavirus epidemic at the Pasteur Institute of Shanghai, a joint venture between the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It also has a presence in other regions that are particularly vulnerable to the new virus, such as Africa, where it has the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal.
Fauci called the interest from pharmaceutical companies in developing a vaccine for the novel coronavirus"much more intense" than it had been for the global SARS epidemic, which occurred in 2002-2003. Still, the development of a vaccine is not the only hurdle in the process of combating a disease outbreak like COVID-19.
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