A Nova Scotia laboratory working on a vaccine for COVID-19 has been given the green light from Health Canada to proceed with its plan for human trials.
IMV is a biopharmaceutical company with labs in Dartmouth, N.S. IMV started working on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus as soon as the World Health Organization declared the pandemic.
On May 21, the company selected a candidate vaccine out of a series of formulations tested on animals. The study is unique in that it will test the vaccine on two age groups -- adults between 18 and 55 years old and adults 56 years of age and older. Two doses of the vaccine will be tested on both groups.
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