A desperately-needed COVID-19 vaccine may never come to light, according the Australian scientist heading up the global search. She warned against creating 'unrealistic expectations', explaining that there has never been a successful vaccine against other coronaviruses. The sobering claims by Ms Halton will dampen hopes that human trials of a vaccine in America would be successful. No one has ever successfully developed a coronavirus vaccine, and we still don’t have a vaccine against HIV. It comes as testing of another potential coronavirus vaccine began at the CSIRO lab in regional Victoria last week.

Source: Daily Mail April 11, 2020 02:31 UTC