Currently, more than 70 countries are participating in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s trial to accelerate research on effective treatments, and around 20 organizations are in the race to develop a vaccine, according to WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
started in March, and was developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services.
Let's work as quickly as we can ... to try and test those vaccines, to get proof that the vaccine works, hopefully within 12 to 18 months.
A scientist is at work in the VirPath university laboratory, classified as "P3" level of safety, on February 5, 2020 as they try to find an effective treatment against COVID-19.Moving ahead, part of the measures would be "to maintain the testing, treating, isolating, and social distancing that we've been doing all along — prevent infection," he added.
"Let's work as quickly as we can — as we are doing at IVI and others are doing — to try and test those vaccines, to get proof that the vaccine works, hopefully within 12 to 18 months," Kim said.to some controversial malaria drugs — have been claimed by some as being helpful in treating COVID-19.
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