Vaccine

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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Johns Hopkins University health expert on Sunday said a vaccine for the novel coronavirus may arrive by the end of year, but don’t “bank on it.” Dr. Tom Inglesby, the director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns…

Governments and drugmakers are weighing how to roll out coronavirus vaccines, including reserving the first batches for health-care workers, as several shots race to early leads. Of more than 100 vaccines in development globally, at least eight have started testing in humans, including candidates from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. At the same time, pharmaceutical…

China's National Health Commission has said COVID-19 vaccines could complete their second-phase clinical trials as early as July.Speaking at a news conference on Friday, its vice minister said the trials so far had been successful.(SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION VICE MINISTER, ZENG YIXIN, SAYING:"During the clinical trials of these projects, as of now, we haven't…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A single dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, an investigational vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, has protected six rhesus macaques from pneumonia caused by the virus, according to the National Institutes of Health.SARS-CoV-2, more commonly known as COVID-19, has infected 4,523,916 people and killed at…