At the time, the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) was one of only a handful of labs around the world working on a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Now, Gerdts says the timeline of a VIDO-InterVac vaccine being ready to manufacture, if it's successful, has been delayed by both. The VIDO-InterVac vaccine is made with the spike protein on the outside of SARS-CoV-2. (Matthew Garand/CBC)VIDO-InterVac is in the process of building a pilot manufacturing facility, but it is not scheduled to be ready until the end of 2021. "So you can't just simply expect that a manufacturing facility stops all what they are doing now to produce your vaccine."

Source: CBC News August 23, 2020 07:52 UTC