America to Test a Vaccine against the New Coronavirus on Monday
America to Test a Vaccine against the New Coronavirus on Monday
Regarding to AP News report, the American government official said that the first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday.
The experiment will test with a group of 45 young healthy volunteers with a different doses shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. This testing is set to check that whether the vaccines show worrisome side effects.
Public health officials stated that it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine and would be ready for use.
Nowadays there is no exact formula to cure a the new coronavirus as the symptom shows differently in each patients, most people have only fever and cough while for some especially elders and people with existing health problems, it can cause more serious illness, including pneumonia.
According to the World Health Organization or WHO, people with mild and moderate illness recover in about two weeks, while the people with more serious may take three weeks to six weeks to recover.