The findings will pave the way to the development of a human vaccine, said the investigators. In labs around the world, there is now cautious optimism that a coronavirus vaccine, and perhaps more than one, will be ready sometime next year. CanSino Biologics, a company in China, has begun human testing of a coronavirus vaccine that relies on this approach, as has the University of Oxford team. When work on a coronavirus vaccine started, some researchers worried that antibodies actually might worsen COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. You don’t want something that seems so simple to be the bottleneck in your vaccination program.”A coronavirus vaccine doesn’t yet exist, but already there are questions about who will be able to afford it.

Source: bd News24 May 20, 2020 23:26 UTC