This promising coronavirus vaccine could be ready within 3 months

[Chris Smith]

• A second coronavirus vaccine trial has entered the final stage of testing, and the research could be finalized as soon as October.
• One of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine candidates that were studied in preclinical and Phase 1/2 clinical trials has advanced to Phase 2/3. it will be tested on 30,000 participants at 120 sites around the world, including 39 states in the US.
• If the drug is effective and safe, the companies will seek Emergency Use Authorization authorization this year and could deliver as many as 100 million doses by the end of 2020

There’s no guarantee that any of the existing vaccine candidates will work against the novel coronavirus just because the first phases of human trials showed promising results. But with more than 150 experimental vaccines being tested, there’s hope that at least a few of them will work. Even if just one is efficient and safe against COVID-19, that would still give the world a better chance of fighting the most significant pandemic of the century.

Several vaccine candidates are ready for the final stage of trials. Phase 3 will deliver the conclusions we're all awaiting, and regulators could then approve some of these drugs for immediate use. Moderna on Monday started Phase 3 and the event got plenty of coverage. The research could be completed by October or November, Dr. Anthony Fauci said. But Moderna’s vaccine isn’t the only COVID-19 vaccine that’s starting Phase 3 trials. Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Monday that they're beginning their own Phase 2/3 trial of an mRNA vaccine candidate, which will enroll 30,000 volunteers from around the world, including Germany and the US.

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