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Corona Vaccine: Vaccine development takes years. But one for the pandemic by early 2021? Here’s a reality check.

3 years ago


A laboratory technician with a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate, ready for trial on monkeys, at the National Primate Research Center of Thailand at Chulalongkorn University, in Saraburi on May 23, 2020.

Synopsis

Around 120 Covid-19 vaccines are under research across the world. Besides being a long-drawn process, the lack of convincing data and the fickle nature of the novel coronavirus would call for a tempered expectation of a vaccine. But some scientists have promised that millions of doses will be available by early 2021. So, what’s fuelling such optimism?

The self-effacing bioscience labs on the sprawling campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati belie the battle being waged inside. A team of scientists helmed by Sachin Kumar, a doctorate in molecular virology from the University of Maryland, the US, is hard at work to develop a vaccine against the wily SARS-CoV-2 virus. In the early days of the pandemic, ET Prime had outlined some of the challenges of developing a vaccine and

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