COVID-19 vaccine protects monkeys from new coronavirus, Chinese biotech reports
Source: Science Magazine
For the first time, one of the many COVID-19 vaccines in development has protected an animal, rhesus macaques, from infection by the new coronavirus, scientists report. The vaccine, an old-fashioned formulation consisting of a chemically inactivated version of the virus, produced no obvious side effects in the monkeys, and human trials began on 16 April.
Researchers from Sinovac Biotech, a privately held Beijing-based company, gave two different doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to a total of eight rhesus macaque monkeys. Three weeks later, the group introduced SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into the monkeys lungs through tubes down their tracheas, and none developed a full-blown infection.
The monkeys given the highest dose of vaccine had the best response: Seven days after the animals received the virus, researchers could not detect it in the pharynx or lungs of any of them. Some of the lower dosed animals had a viral blip but also appeared to have controlled the infection, the Sinovac team reports in a paper published on 19 April on the preprint server bioRxiv. In contrast, four control animals developed high levels of viral RNA in several body parts and severe pneumonia. The results give us a lot of confidence that the vaccine will work in humans, says Meng Weining, Sinovacs senior director for overseas regulatory affairs.
Read more: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/covid-19-vaccine-protects-monkeys-new-coronavirus-chinese-biotech-reports
George II
(67,782 posts)William Seger
(10,778 posts)... about testing it on "reopen" protesters next, before any human trials.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)They made their beds. Screw them.
Initech
(100,063 posts)Same with anti-vaxxers.
Texin
(2,594 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)There is always lysol.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Chinese vaccine directly in the lungs. Patient cured. Trump will jump right on it.
No vaccine for any of them.
IcyPeas
(21,858 posts)trump is part orangutan.... not monkey.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)w0nderer
(1,937 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,911 posts)All the good responses are taken.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)Hopefully the human trials go as well.
William Seger
(10,778 posts)It's terrifying to think that we won't be able to find any vaccine, so even if this isn't quite the one, it gives some hope.
iluvtennis
(19,850 posts)SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)can go out to eat now. That should clear the Trumptards as well. Now they don't have to protest all over the place.
I'll wait for a vaccine approved for humans before I do anything like that.
jmbar2
(4,874 posts)sdfernando
(4,930 posts)if one of them was named Milo or Caesar.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)Primates have done more to ensure the health and safety of humans than any group of species other than lab rats. We owe them a great deal.
jmbar2
(4,874 posts)They deserve to inherit the earth. Probably won't funk it up.
Initech
(100,063 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Same as polio.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)human trials. Once again, it's the scientists who save our collective asses.
mn9driver
(4,423 posts)I hope it is.