- Coronavirus vaccine development is advancing at a rapid pace, but a viable drug might not be available to the general population until early 2021, in a best-case scenario.
- A more controversial human trial may speed up development: Challenge trials.
- The World Health Organization has come up with guidelines for deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19 to see whether a vaccine candidate is effective and safe.
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Coronavirus vaccine research is off to a great start, as more than 115 teams were working on drug candidates as of mid-April. Several of them have shown promise in lab testing and have reached various phases of human trials. If everything goes well, the first COVID-19 vaccine could be ready to roll out this fall under emergency use authorization. The general public could get access to it as soon as early 2021. For most such drugs, the theoretical estimates sit at 12-18 months. That’s still much faster than other vaccines, but it may still be a long wait. And once the first vaccines are ready, we’ll have to wait for governments to manufacture them in large quantities
There is a speedier way to go about vaccine development, however, but it’s a controversial one because it comes with increased risk. That said, the World Health Organization (WHO) isn’t against vaccine challenge trials, and issued guidelines for vaccine makers that want to speed things up.
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