Coronavirus vaccine candidate from China

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Eddy Edson said:
Virologists on Twitter showing some enthusiasm about one of the Chinese vaccine candidates:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1252939460129538048

Apparently well ahead in the lab versus all the other initiatives. Early days, obviously ...
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Looks promising.

This one looks promising too, simple compared to some other methods. Plasma Transfer.

www.independent.co.uk

Doctors hope to find Covid-19 treatment by using 'survivor plasma'

'This is a stone-age approach for the modern age'
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
 
Multi-centre human trials commenced in the U.K. for one which spliced some genetic material from Covid-19 into a chimp virus.
 
Eddy Edson said:
Virologists on Twitter showing some enthusiasm about one of the Chinese vaccine candidates:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1252939460129538048

Apparently well ahead in the lab versus all the other initiatives. Early days, obviously ...
Click to expand...

Story on this: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...nkeys-new-coronavirus-chinese-biotech-reports

For the first time, one of the many COVID-19 vaccines in development has protected an animal, rhesus macaques, from infection by the new coronavirus, scientists report. The vaccine, an old-fashioned formulation consisting of a chemically inactivated version of the virus, produced no obvious side effects in the monkeys, and human trials began on 16 April.
 
Review of current vaccine initiatives by Florian Krammer et al: https://www.cell.com/immunity/pdf/S1074-7613(20)30120-5.pdf

Also looks at possible therapeutics but note that the first remdesivir trial reported no benefit today, a disappointment given how promising experts seemed to find it.
 
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