Human COVID vaccine trials begin in Australia

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Human COVID vaccine trials begin in Australia
Rod McGuirk

Monday, 25 May 2020 6:59 pm


US biotechnology company Novavax says a proven vaccine could be ready by the end of the year. File image. Credit: Getty

A US biotechnology company is beginning human trials in Australia of a coronavirus vaccine, with the hopes of releasing a proven vaccine this year.

Novavax has begun the first phase of the trial in which 131 volunteers in Melbourne and Brisbane will test the safety of the vaccine and look for early signs of its effectiveness.

“We are in parallel making doses, making vaccine in anticipation that we’ll be able to show it’s working and be able to start deploying it by the end of this year,” said the company’s research chief Dr Gregory Glenn.

Glenn was speaking at a virtual press conference in Melbourne from Novavax’s headquarters in Maryland.

About a dozen experimental vaccines are in early stages of testing or poised to start, mostly in China, the US and Europe.
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