Coronavirus Vaccine May Be Available Next Year only
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With the worldwide still being grazed by the current Covid-19 pandemic. Everyone seems are worries and hoping for a vaccine can be developed out as soon as possible but in the point of the researcher and medical field. The vaccine is impossible to be developed within a short time gap.
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As researcher and doctors from all worldwide are trying their best to find a cure or vaccine for this Covid-19 virus, mostly are answering in the same similar point of view which the earliest for this vaccine to be developed out will only be available around the same time next year.
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Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States mentioned that there is no way that anyone will be able to get vaccinated this year, while Professor Ooi Eng Long, deputy director of the emerging infectious disease programme at Duke-NUS Medical school also mentioned the same thing that there is no way they can get ride of the coronavirus in a hurry as it is still unclear on how long vaccinations will be able to protect people from the disease.
As so far, there are 140 vaccines are currently being developed worldwide with only 16 of them are being tested in clinical trials. Even the French drugmaker Sanofi, which is joining up with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline said that they are expecting to have 100 million doses of a vaccine by end of this year and additional of 1 billion doses next year. Which is very common to take several to produce a vaccine as the makers need to ensure that they have a good vaccine before making huge investments to manufacture at large scale.