So Times Opinion asked vaccine experts how we could condense the timeline and get a vaccine in the next few months instead of years. Companies with vaccine trials underway Dozens of vaccines are starting clinical trials. Sanofi, a French biopharmaceutical company, expects to begin clinical trials late this year for a Covid-19 vaccine that it repurposed from work on a SARS vaccine. Manufacturers may be able to speed this up by creating or repurposing existing facilities in the middle of clinical trials, long before the vaccine in question receives F.D.A. While some steps in the vaccine timeline can be fast-tracked or skipped entirely, approvals aren’t one of them.

Source: New York Times April 30, 2020 09:35 UTC