clinical trials within a year, I do not expect a coronavirus vaccine to be commercially available within a year.”
The World Health Organization on Thursday declared the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak a global public health emergency.
Countries around the world are reporting isolated cases of coronavirus, as travelers carry the bug out of China — including the United States, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia,, Malaysia, Macau, France, South Korea, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Nepal, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Finland, the United Kingdom and Russia.
And the United States has had its first case of person-to-person transmission of the coronavirus, with a Chicago woman passing the virus to her husband.
“I don’t think it’s been overhyped,” Krammer said of the threat posed by the virus. “We have to take this very seriously. We don’t know which direction it will go. It might be that it’s stoppable. It might be that it’s not stoppable.”
In response, vaccine labs worldwide are adapting their work on previous coronavirus vaccines for