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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,234 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:38 PM Feb 2020

How soon can scientists find a coronavirus vaccine?

Researchers at a San Diego lab say it took them just three hours to come up with an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus — a potential weapon against the illness that has infected at least 60,000 people worldwide to date. Inovio Pharmaceuticals is now scrambling to test the vaccine, first in animals and then in people, and if it succeeds they hope to get it to the public as soon as possible, CBS San Diego affiliate KFMB reports.

Chinese scientists released the genetic sequence for the coronavirus on Jan. 9, and researchers at Inovio and other labs around the world immediately got to work.

"We have an algorithm which we designed, and we put the DNA sequence into our algorithm and came up with the vaccine in that short amount of time," Dr. Trevor Smith, Inovio's director of research and development, told KFMB.

"It's something we are trained to do, and the infrastructure is here and the expertise is in house," Smith said. The company has also worked on vaccines for Zika virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Ebola.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/how-soon-can-scientists-find-a-coronavirus-vaccine/ar-BBZYGS3?li=BBnb7Kz

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How soon can scientists find a coronavirus vaccine? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 OP
Are you asking for a friend? marble falls Feb 2020 #1
It's easy to kill a virus in a Petri dish... SidDithers Feb 2020 #2
A vaccine doesn't kill the virus. That's not how vaccines work. Mariana Feb 2020 #5
They say they have worked on vaccines for MERS. Where is it? Color me skeptical still_one Feb 2020 #3
Didn't Trump appoint a golf course architect as head of the CDC? Of not it's brewens Feb 2020 #4
Already exists Timewas Feb 2020 #6

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
2. It's easy to kill a virus in a Petri dish...
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:42 PM
Feb 2020

more difficult to kill it and not kill the cells surrounding it in a living organism.

Sid

still_one

(92,422 posts)
3. They say they have worked on vaccines for MERS. Where is it? Color me skeptical
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:44 PM
Feb 2020

Just the safety testing involved takes time

brewens

(13,623 posts)
4. Didn't Trump appoint a golf course architect as head of the CDC? Of not it's
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:48 PM
Feb 2020

maybe the best move he's made. It's a wonder if he didn't though.

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