Does the virus that you might treat COVID-19 with — does it have to be stronger or weaker than the COVID-19 virus? It's a very benign virus that's been used for hundreds of years to vaccinate people and prevent them from getting other diseases. You then develop an immune response against it, and if the COVID-19 virus comes by you're already immune to it. As far as you know, are you the first team that's using what you know about cancer to translate this onto COVID-19? If your team succeeds in helping to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 what would that mean to you?

Source: CBC News April 30, 2020 16:07 UTC