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There is a key question about the Corona epidemic, which millions want to answer: when do we get the deadly virus vaccine?
On Wednesday, we heard encouraging words from the World Health Organization, which commended a “major breakthrough” in efforts to find a vaccine for the emerging coronavirus.
“The first tests for the vaccine started, 60 days after the genetic makeup of the virus was known,” WHO chief Tidros Adhanum Ghebriesos told reporters.
Vaccine tests began in the United States at the Kaiser Permanente Research Foundation in Seattle earlier this week. Four patients received the dose of the vaccine, which does not contain the Covid-19 virus but contains a harmless genetic code for the virus.
But experts warn that it takes months to know if this vaccine, or any other vaccine, is successful in fighting the virus.
Even if initial tests prove successful, it will take time for the drug to become available.
It may take until the middle of next year, but scientists around the world are working hard to find a vaccine as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, experiments in China indicated that two drugs, the HIV virus that causes AIDS, did not increase the chances of recovery or reduce the risk of death in Corona patients.
The study of two hundred patients in Wuhan showed that treatment with the two drugs had no more point than supporting the general condition of the patient.
The experiment was conducted on people in an advanced stage of the disease, and the death rate was 22 percent of the study participants.
The BBC’s health affairs correspondent said that this stage of the disease may be too late to allow the drugs to succeed in fighting the disease.
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