• Question: Do you think that by September, there would be a vaccine?

    Asked by anon-256355 on 11 Jun 2020.
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      Martin Coath answered on 11 Jun 2020: last edited 11 Jun 2020 12:39 pm

      It is likely that it will take a little longer than September to get approved. Vaccines against the virus that causes COVID-19 are being tried on people right now. So we just have to wait for the results to be gathered and analysed.
      Remember that vaccines work by preventing you from getting sick. As the disease is infecting fewer people every day in many countries (due to people being very careful not to spread it) it could be quite hard to tell if the trial vaccine is working. So we need to be patient.
      Whatever happens this will probably the fastest a vaccine has ever been developed for anything, so a huge achievement.

      What vaccines have been discovered for the CORONAVIRUS?

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    Melanie commented on :

    I think its very unlikely the vaccine will be available by September. Not only do we need to find one that works, it also needs to be produced for millions of people at once. Usually, for a measles vaccine for example, children get vaccinated at a certain age, so there is only a small portion of the population that needs to be vaccinated at once but here it is all of the population.
    If there is a vaccine by September (again as a Virologist I think its super unlikely), it will probably be given to healthcare workers and vulnerable people first so it might only be several months later that kids or younger adults get it.