Drugmakers are hustling to make a vaccine to counter the rapidly-spreading coronavirus that has sickened at least 830 in China and two people in the U.S.
A Pennsylvania biotechnology company, Inovio, also secured a $9 million grant from Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to develop a vaccine. The company already is developing a vaccine for Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, another type of coronavirus.
Even if the vaccine is tested rapidly, it might not come in time to slow the current outbreak. Public health efforts to limit the spread of that virus and treat those who are infected will have a more immediate benefit. As public health officials work to limit the spread and get medical care to those in hard-hit regions, scientists, government and drugmakers are racing to develop new vaccines and other drugs.
“Getting the vaccine candidate in the laboratory is the shorter and easier part,” said William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University School of Medicine professor of preventive medicine. “It is testing it in people to make sure it’s safe and it’s likely to work that takes much more time and much more money.”
His agency will develop the vaccine using a technology called messenger RNA platform, which instruct cells to make proteins. The newer technology will allow the agency to develop one more quickly. During the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003, it took about 20 months to prepare a vaccine for clinical trial, Fauci said.
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