How Close Are We to a Coronavirus Vaccine?

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How Close Are We to a Coronavirus Vaccine?
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Perhaps the biggest hurdle is how funding rises and falls with panic.

through hygiene efforts and environmental factors. Now, Hotez hopes to pull it out of the freezer for more testing, if he can secure funding. It’s possible that the new coronavirus is similar enough to SARS that the same antibodies, produced with a nudge from the vaccine, could latch onto the spiny crown of coronavirus receptors, essentially rendering the virus harmless.

“When the threat is ongoing, it’s all hands on deck, everyone gets worried. When the problem’s not there, they loseBefore that happened, Hotez and his collaborators got as far as showing that their vaccine protected against the virus in animals. Hotez had wanted to keep going with the clinical trials that would prove the vaccine was safe, and then effective, in humans, too, even though the SARS threat had passed.

It was: The genomes were 82 percent identical. “It’s kind of serendipitous,” says Hotez. With funding, he could partner with a vaccine development organization in China to quickly finish testing the vaccine and, if it works, use it against the current epidemic.

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