A team of UK scientists racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine believe they have made a breakthrough in early trials of a jab which..
Neal Browning receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, Monday, March 16, 2020, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. Browning is the second patient to receive the shot in the study.
T-cells can kill a virus and the cells it has infected, providing an important part of the body’s response to viral infections. The discovery is promising because two recent studies have indicated that antibodies may disappear within weeks or months, while T-cells can stay in circulation in the body for much longer.A source told the Telegraph that the combination of T-cells and antibodies would “hopefully keep people safe.
But David Carpenter, chair of the Berkshire Research Ethics Committee, which approved the Oxford trial, told the Telegraph the teams were “absolutely on trackand said the vaccine could be available, if it proves to be effective, as early as September.“Nobody can put final dates … things might go wrong but the reality is that by working with a big pharma company, that vaccine could be fairly widely available around September and that is the sort of target they are working on,” he said.
The full findings of the first trials for the Oxford vaccine will be published in The Lancet, a medical journal, on July 20, the Telegraph reported.
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