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April 11, 2020 04:34 pm

A Coronavirus Vaccine 'May Be Six Months Away'

The New York Post reports that a COVID-19 vaccine "may be six months away, according to a researcher leading a team of scientists in England.""I think there's a high chance that it will work based on other things that we have done with this type of vaccine," Sarah Gilbert, a professor of virology at Oxford told The Times of London. "It's not just a hunch and as every week goes by we have more data to look at. I would go for 80 percent, that's my personal view." Gilbert added that if they can find places that haven't imposed a lockdown, "we will get our efficacy results very quickly." America and Israel have also reported encouraging progress on a vaccine. And in the Netherlands and Australia, researchers are testing the effectiveness of the BCG tuberculosis vaccine developed in the 1920s (with more tests being scheduled for Africa, and experiments in the U.K.) UPI reports researchers in the Netherlands "have started recruiting 1,000 healthcare workers, who are at high risk for COVID-19, in eight hospitals who will receive either the BCG vaccine or a placebo." The Times of London reports that the U.K. government "signalled that it would be willing to fund the manufacture of millions of doses in advance" if the results of professor Gilbert's research looked promising. "This would allow it to be available immediately to the public if it were proven to work. "With ministers struggling to find a strategy to exit the lockdown, long-term hopes of a return to normality rely on a vaccine."

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