With the continuous spread of COVID-19 epidemic around the world, scientists all over the world are actively developing vaccines to deal with this health crisis. Scientists believe that it takes 12- 18 months at the earliest for vaccine development, testing and mass production, but this situation is expected to be changed by Oxford University.
On April 27th, according to foreign media reports, a coronavirus vaccine developed by edward jenner Vaccine Research Institute of Oxford University entered the first phase of clinical trial last week, and it is possible to launch millions of doses in September.
According to the report, Jenner Institute is now ahead of other laboratories, because it has been proved in early experiments that using its vaccine is harmless to humans. This enabled the Oxford University research team to arrange more than 6,000 people to test its vaccine before the end of May. For security reasons, other laboratories are limited to hundreds of test participants.
Sarah Gilbert, a professor at Oxford University, said: If the vaccine is urgently approved by the regulatory authorities and finally verified to be effective, the first batch of one million doses of vaccine can be produced in September, and I have 80% confidence that the vaccine is effective.
It is reported that in a test conducted in Kishan Laboratory of the National Institute of Health in Montana last month, six rhesus monkeys were vaccinated with a single dose of vaccine before being exposed to a large number of viruses. After 28 days, six monkeys were still healthy.
Researchers say that rhesus monkeys are almost the closest animals to humans, and it is expected that the research results will be shared with other scientists next week and then submitted to peer-reviewed journals.
Last week, the vaccine entered the first-phase clinical trial, and the number of participants was 1 100. Next month, the second and third phases of the experiment will begin, which will increase at least 5000 participants.
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