IgbereTV reports that the first human trial testing a potential vaccine to prevent COVID-19 began Monday, as U.S. health officials has confirmed.

Finding “a safe and effective vaccine” to prevent infection from the new coronavirus “is an urgent public health priority,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a statement Monday. “This Phase 1 study, launched in record speed, is an important first step toward achieving that goal.”

The National Institutes of Health, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, has been fast-tracking work with biotech company Moderna to develop a vaccine using the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus. The trial is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, Washington, where COVID-19 cases have surged and authorities have banned mass gatherings. The early-stage, or phase 1, trial will test the vaccine on 45 males and non-pregnant females between the ages of 18 and 55, according to trial details on NIH’s website.

There are no proven therapies for the latest outbreak, which has killed at least 6,513 and sickened nearly 170,000 people worldwide since emerging from the Chinese city of Wuhan less than three months ago.

Hopes to get a vaccine to market are high, but doctors are setting expectations low for how quickly it can happen. Developing, testing and reviewing any potential vaccine is a long, complex and expensive endeavor that could take months or even years, global health experts say. Before researchers can begin human trials, they must have a firm understanding of the pathogen, run safety tests and find enough human volunteers.

The early-stage trial will be led by Dr. Lisa Jackson, a senior investigator at Kaiser. Study participants will receive two doses of the vaccine via intramuscular injection in the upper arm approximately 28 days apart, NIH said. Each participant will be assigned to receive a 25 microgram, 100 mcg or 250 mcg dose at both vaccinations, with 15 people in each dose cohort, the agency said.

“This work is critical to national efforts to respond to the threat of this emerging virus,” Jackson said. “We are prepared to conduct this important trial because of our experience as an NIH clinical trials center since 2007.”

Fauci told reporters last week a vaccine for public use likely won’t be ready for another 12 to 18 months.

He said the potential vaccine by Moderna contains genetic material called messenger RNA, or mRNA, that was produced in a lab. The mRNA is a genetic code that tells cells how to make a protein and was found in the outer coat of the new coronavirus, according to researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.

The mRNA instructs the body’s own cellular mechanisms for making proteins to make those that mimic the virus proteins, thereby producing an immune response.

Fauci told reporters last month a vaccine may not solve “problems in the next couple of months but it certainly would be an important tool that we would have.” He said it’s possible the virus will prove to be seasonal, thus likely to subside in the warmer months like the flu.

In the meantime, some health authorities are using Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug Remdesivir, which was tested as a possible treatment during the Ebola outbreak. CDC director Robert Redfield said at a separate hearing last week that the drug is being used in Washington state.

http://igberetvnews.com/1343983/us-begins-first-human-trial-coronavirus-vaccine/

Good luck to them. Trump isn't trying in stemming the situation considering their position in the world , unlike the obama in ebola days.

Its important abeg

fairfora:
Good luck to them. Trump isn't trying in stemming the situation considering their position in the world , unlike the obama in ebola days.

Can't u read? They are about to conduct trials for a candidate vaccine in record time.

What did China do all this time? Pls give credit for good work and stop mindless hating.... Trump is efficient and effective.

Nigerians have a funny way of attributing or relating everything to the government. The research institute most likely is not funded by the government

Trump probably has little to do with this. I don't think he has released any special grant or funds to the institute.

I suspect Trump is infected.

A German company seems to have made some headway in producing a Vaccine and it was reported that Trump was trying to sway the producers to bring their facilities to USA, making it exclusively for Americans.

Medical line is the current top job worldwide. Doctors are cashing out like.....

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voltron14:
A German company seems to have made some headway in producing a Vaccine and it was reported that Trump was trying to sway the producers to bring their facilities to USA, making it exclusively for Americans.

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Chai....



Why great grand pa no follow dem jejeli to America

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zeuss:


Can't u read? They are about to conduct trials for a candidate vaccine in record time.

What did China do all this time? Pls give credit for good work and stop mindless hating.... Trump is efficient and effective.

Israel has already developed the vaccine, soon to be produced in large qty. What USA developed is for trial which might still fail.

fairfora:
Israel has already developed the vaccine, soon to be produced in large qty. What USA developed is for trial which might still fail.

only haters like u that already know the us vaccine will fail even before the trials. More surprising I'd the fact that a villageman with no understanding of how panadol is made know that the worlds leafing scientists will bungle effort to develop a vaccine
HATER.

zeuss:

only haters like u that already know the us vaccine will fail even before the trials. More surprising I'd the fact that a villageman with no understanding of how panadol is made know that the worlds leafing scientists will bungle effort to develop a vaccine
HATER.

I'm a scientist...a health practitioner. You're not talking with a novice

fairfora:
I'm a scientist...a health practitioner. You're not talking with a novice

Can you send me a link to your published research?

What's your field?