Hola MaHigh-School - August 2020

Covid-19 vaccine status A range of countries are pooling their resources and making money available.

Wiki: “The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) – which is organizing a US$2 billion worldwide fund for rapid investment and development of vaccine candidates -indicated in April that a vaccine may be available under emergency use protocols in less than 12 months or by early 2021” This is probably the earliest we can expect a safe and efficient vaccine. Six candidates are now going into the last test phase – phase III. The six top candidates are using very different technologies.

Gam-COVID-Vac Lyo, product developed in Russia, has been registered by 11 August. However, the clinical test data has not been released as of yet. This is important as it will give the globe the chance to evaluate the vaccine.

Wiki: “Gamaleya’s vaccine candidate is a viral vector vaccine based on human adenovirus — a common cold virus —