America’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said that he is cautiously optimistic over the results from the current clinical trials and the possibility of developing a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of this year or early next year. “The lessons we’ve learned from the coronavirus is they have pandemic potential, they’re …
Astrazeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate is probably the world’s leading candidate and most advanced in terms of development, the World Health Organization’s chief scientis Soumya Swaminathan has said. Speaking to a news briefing yesterday, called for considering collaborating on COVID-19 vaccine trials, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate was also “not far behind” Astrazeneca’s, among more than 200 …
New Delhi: As scientists across the world work frantically to find a vaccine against COVID-19, which continues its rapid global spread, all eyes are on US-based company Moderna’s encouraging early results on a small group of healthy volunteers. Cautioning that a vaccine is still months, maybe even a year away, experts said the US-based biotechnology …