A COVID-19 vaccine could be ready for medical professionals this fall and for the general population next spring, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health said Wednesday in laying out a timetable more optimistic than many other experts have proposed.
Kizzmekia Corbett, the lead scientist at the National Institutes of Health working on the coronavirus vaccine, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 it’s “looking like we’re on track for” a vaccine that could be available for emergency use this fall.
NIH’s lead scientist for coronavirus vaccine research Kizzmekia Corbett lays out the government’s race to create a vaccine, saying they could be on track to have a vaccine from sequence to the general population within 8 months. https://t.co/FtacDLY6rn pic.twitter.com/hlE34Wz64I
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) April 15, 2020
Most other experts in the field have used a 12-18-month timetable. Still, others have said a 12-18 month goal is “risky” for reasons of safety.
Corbett, though, said her team has benefited from previous research on vaccines.
Asked why her team is moving faster than others, Corbett said, “It is based on several of our previous projects where we were investigating vaccines for MERS and SARS – coronaviruses which are very closely related to the virus that causes COVID-19. … We’ve researched coronavirus vaccine development for the last…
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