In a race against the clock, a San Diego lab is scrambling to get a COVID-19 vaccine out and on the market. As the days go by, Inovio Pharmaceuticals is getting closer to releasing the desperately needed vaccine against the deadly virus.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, which is located in Sorrento Valley, has also created a vaccine for the Zika virus, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and the vaccine for Ebola.
Dr. Trevor Smith, who is the director of research and development at Inovio, said, “It’s something we are trained to do, and the infrastructure is here and the expertise is in house.”
When Chinese scientists released the genetic sequence on Jan. 9, Inovio researchers got to work immediately and within 3 hours they had a vaccine for coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is now being referred to.
“We have an algorithm which we designed, and we put the DNA sequence into our algorithm and came up with the vaccine in that short amount of time,” said Dr. Smith.
Tens of thousands in China have been quarantined and continue to suffer from the virus. That’s why scientists at Inovio Pharmaceuticals say they feel the sense of urgency to get the vaccine out.
The vaccine has been tested on mice and guinea pigs. It will next be tried on a group of human patients.
Scientists hope the vaccine will work like a piece of biological software. In other words, the vaccine will give the human body instructions to create the proper attack in the form of T-cells and antibodies against COVID-19.
If all goes as planned, clinical trials in humans could begin by early this summer – which would be a record time frame for Inovio Pharmaceuticals.
Currently, an Inovio Pharmaceuticals lead researcher is in Sweden meeting with the World Health Organization to come up with the best plan of attack against COVID-19.
It must be safe and effective if theyre putting it out.
I mean they also were able to race against the clock and check for long term side effects!
This is all big business to scare people into thinking this will save their life! This vaccine has not been properly tested for safety!
It’s much better that more people die of COVID (sarcasm)
Ha ha. This is pathetic… I’m sure theres no side effects…. And will “save millions of lives”.
Maybe if you’re so against vaccinations, go to China and infect yourself with the virus. Prove how vaccines are all a sham.
Honestly the scientific world is not out to get you, no matter what hogwash you bought into.
Even if you (incorrectly) believe that vaccines are harmful, they still are the reason that so many diseases have either died out or have been contained. Cause they work (I know, blasphemous to say these days). So whatever, don’t vaccinate; fight off whatever medieval disease and plague you think your body can handle/be hospitalized for. But why do you care if other people are trying to protect themselves? Why are you hating on other people’s choices to vaccinate when your MO is to do whatever you think is the best or most informed decision and not to have other’s impose… Read more »
They were able to find the Corona virus in the Bible code. Look it up. It is supposed to make us do teshuva – especially the goyim. The virus is linked to bats & In China they boil bats alive and eat them (a Noahide prohibition). Promote the Noahide laws!
http://www.asknoah.info
They thought they had a vaccine against the SARS virus. The vaccine caused a build up of antibodies to the SARS virus in animal testing. But when they exposed the vaccinated animals to the SARS virus the animals all died as an overreaction of the body to the SARS virus. So this vaccine must be well tested as SARS is also a type of corona virus. I am not against vaccines. I just know in this case the SARS vaccine caused those exposed to SARS to have a worse reaction than those not vaccinated