Posted on 04/24/2020 8:07:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
London — In the global scramble for a COVID-19 vaccine, a select number of human trials are now under way, but it's scientists from England's University of Oxford who appear most confident that they're onto a cure. Professor Sarah Gilbert heads the Oxford team behind the potential vaccine being developed in partnership with the Jenner Institute. She's said it has an "80% chance" of success, and it could be available for wide use by the public as soon as September.
Human trials of the vaccine began Thursday in Oxford. It will be administered to 510 healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 55.
U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the government is "throwing everything" at efforts in the country to create a COVID-19 vaccine. He's pledged around $25 million in public funding for the Oxford project and an additional $27 million to research initiatives at Imperial College London. He says the U.K. is "at the front of the global effort" to find a vaccine.
"We have put more money than any other country into a global search for a vaccine and, for all the efforts around the world, two of the leading vaccine developments are taking place here at home, at Oxford and Imperial," Hancock said. "Both of these promising projects are making rapid progress, and I've told the scientists leading them we will do everything in our power to support."
Although there are 120 projects around the world working toward a vaccine, only five have been approved for clinical trials on humans.
As well as the Oxford initiative, a joint partnership between German biotech company BioNTech and U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will begin trialing a potential vaccine later this month. It will be tested on 200 German volunteers aged between 18 and 55.
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I’m hoping that they’re testing candidates volunteers for vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Otherwise, what’s the point?
Insights welcome.
ALL candidates for COVID-19 vaccines should be have human trials completed. Let’s not make the mistake we made with SARS and stop pursuing vaccines if COVID-19 goes away.
Who knows, one or more of the vaccines being developed now possibly could be effective in the future against the next coronavirus that China unleashes on the world.
“That vaccine is made by Moderna Inc.”
IIRC (I may not) that uses aborted fetal tissue.
If so, you can keep it.
RE: I’m hoping that they’re testing candidates volunteers for vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.
Are SARS-Cov-2 antibodies permanent? Or are they their only for a short while?
Good question.
“We have put more money than any other country into a global search for a vaccine. He’s pledged around $25 million in public funding for the Oxford project and an additional $27 million to research initiatives at Imperial College”
I doubt that! The way we’re throwing money at this thing, 50 million is round off errors.
As I’ve said, the US government should have addressed coming up with and disseminating a vaccine in a Manhattan Project approach.
We’re totally at the mercy of foreign governments and market forces re:a vaccine. The best we can hope for - in the US - is maybe for something to get going in a year or two. A vaccine would end the nightmare post-haste.
“The way we’re throwing money at this thing, 50 million is round off errors.”
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We’re throwing literally trillions at addressing the symptoms when much less could have been spent to end them via creating a vaccine.
“We’re throwing literally trillions at addressing the symptoms when much less could have been spent to end them via creating a vaccine.”
We need to work on both. If someone is displaying symptoms it’s too late for a vaccine.
It stands to reason that if they can come up with a vaccine,that actually works, for the Wuhan flu, they should be able to came up with a vaccine for the common flu.
“We need to work on both. If someone is displaying symptoms it’s too late for a vaccine.”
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It’s not an either-or. So yeah, it’s a chew bubblegum and walk at the same time thing.
However, a vaccine would obviously end the need of treatment, except for very rare cases.
It stands to reason that if they can come up with a vaccine,that actually works, for the Wuhan flu, they should be able to came up with a vaccine for the common flu.
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They have. They just aren’t the best with predicting which “variant” of the flu will be the predominant one to come back in a new season.
“We’re throwing literally trillions at addressing the symptoms when much less could have been spent to end them via creating a vaccine.”
We’re doing both! There are oodles of companies developing vaccines and anti viral drugs.
Won’t matter. WHO will share vaccine with CCP who will have ample time to neutralize vaccine in their newest virus.
...a vaccine for the common flu.
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They have. They just aren’t the best with predicting which “variant” of the flu will be the predominant one to come back in a new season.
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If I understand correctly, what we have is not a vaccine. It is a shot that hopes to produce antibodies and has a 30-40% success rate.
If I also correctly interpret anecdotes from a large number of people, recipients of the shots run the risk of developing a *mild* case of the influenza in question. That, in itself, likely is producing antibodies.
“There are oodles of companies developing vaccines and anti viral drugs.”
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None in the US that offer even the hope of anything coming out for at least a year, if then. As I said, if the “day is saved” with a vaccination when it’s needed (not years too late), it will be a foreign-devised one. The US is on the “too little, too late” train - though much of it is slowed down to a crawl by a myriad of governmental agencies, e.g. the FDA.
The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines both use cell lines from aborted children. Sanofi Pasteur does not. Don’t know about the others.
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