At least a dozen drugmakers are working on vaccines or antivirals and other treatments to help those infected with coronavirus
- Drugmakers racing to find a vaccine or effective treatment for the deadly new coronavirus in China cautioned that they have a long way to go.
“It will take at least 12 to 18 months, which means in the acute situation we are in now - at least in China - that will not create a benefit,” said Thomas Breuer, chief medical officer of GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine unit. GSK is working with developers by providing a technology that could make their vaccines more potent.
Clinical trials for treatments can be smaller and of shorter duration than for vaccines, Parsey acknowledged. “It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try, but we’re often looking for a magic bullet and the bright shiny object. Sometimes we need to just have the basics,” Frieden said. Health officials in the United States and China have set ambitious goals for getting a vaccine to initial human testing within the next few months.
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