The new coronavirus, COVID-19, has shut businesses and even entire cities down. So, how close are we to a cure? Here's what you need to know.
Hopes to get a vaccine to market are high, but doctors want expectations to be low for how quickly it can happen. Developing, testing and reviewing any potential vaccine is a long, complex and expensive endeavor that could take months or even years,
Before researchers can begin human trials, they must have a firm understanding of the pathogen, run safety tests and find enough human volunteers.Fauci said Tuesday that the potential vaccine has so far been put into mice and is "immunogenic," or triggers a response in the immune system, suggesting it could fight the virus.
"The gene has been expressed in the platform, in this case, a messenger RNA. The material has been produced, it's been put into mice. It's immunogenic," he said. "It's now getting ready to go through the regulatory issues of getting it to go." Fauci said a vaccine may not solve "problems in the next couple of months but it certainly would be an important tool that we would have." He said it's possible the virus will prove to be seasonal, thus likely to subside in the warmer months like the flu.
There are currently no proven therapies for the latest outbreak, which has killed at least 2,704 and sickened more than 80,200 people worldwide since emerging from the Chinese city of Wuhan about two months ago.antiviral drug Remdesivir, which was tested as a possible treatment during the Ebola outbreak, U.S. health officials said last month. Some authorities are also using antiviral drug Kaletra, developed by drugmaker AbbVie, on a "compassionate basis.
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