Aug 3, 2020
“There’s a big difference between having no known cure and having something that works a bit,” he says. “Not only does it affect the total [mortality] numbers, it manages people’s sense of threat and fear, it changes the mindset of healthcare providers and I think we’ve already begun to move from the complete fear and […]
Jul 23, 2020
The findings, led by the National Institutes of Health, have not been peer-reviewed or published, but Professor Robin Shattock, Professor of Mucosal Infection and Immunity, Imperial College London, called the early results “encouraging”. He added:...
Jul 21, 2020
Professor Sarah Gilbert, the lead researcher of the vaccine development programme at the University of Oxford, said trials were currently being held up by a lack of vaccine (see above). The vaccine needs to be created from a line of immortal cells which are infected...
Jul 21, 2020
The Oxford team is one of 23 laboratories around the world working on a vaccine. Professor Sarah Gilbert, the lead researcher said: “It’s a really important day. It’s a really important milestone. “There is still a long way to go. We still...
Jul 20, 2020
The Mers vaccine has been successful in trials, and the virus shares a similar ‘spike protein’ with Covid-19, which is critical to infection, so scientists were hopeful the process would also work for Covid-19. Oxford University already has its own vaccine...
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