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ATLANTA \u2014 <\/b> Doctors in Atlanta are playing a major role in testing a potential COVID-19 vaccine. And Tuesday, they published encouraging results.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Vaccines have typically taken about 10 years or so to develop, but there is hope from biotech company Moderna that it can finish a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Its vaccine candidate is onto a new phase in clinical trials, and Channel 2\u2032s Matt Johnson learned that doctors are encouraged by what they\u2019re finding.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Emory University is part of the clinical trial for the vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cThis is as far as a vaccine goes \u2014 this is extremely speedy timeline,\u201d Dr. Nadine Rouphael with Emory\u2019s vaccine center said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Rouphael is one of the Emory doctors who published phase 1 results from the Moderna vaccine human trials on Tuesday. The results focus on how the vaccine candidate performed with the first 45 people tested at Emory hospitals starting in mid-March.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cIt had shown that the vaccine was well tolerated. It has also shown that the vaccine is able to induce a good immune response,\u201d Rouphael said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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During the trials, doctors injected volunteers with part of the coronavirus. The vaccine was administered twice over a period of four weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Doctors are reporting that everyone tested developed antibodies that fight the virus.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cWe were also pleasantly surprised that it did induce an immunity similar to convalescent people that recovered from the disease,\u201d Rouphael said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Phase 2 is already underway, which involves more volunteers. Phase 3 is set to begin at the end of the month, which involves more testing for effectiveness.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Doctors are preparing for 30,000 people to be a part of phase 3.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Volunteers will be studied at a hospital in Seattle and, also, at Emory here in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s really important to make sure that all of us, as a community, sign up. It\u2019s also very important to see how the vaccine would work in the most vulnerable population. And it\u2019s mostly the elderly people at risk of complication from COVID,\u201d Rouphael said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The vaccine maker is hoping the results of phase 3 can be ready by Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\nEmory University unveils new tool to track COVID-19 in your own community<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u00a9 2020 Cox Media Group <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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