Swiss corona vaccine shows promising effects

More vaccines in development

Numerous drugs and medicines are currently being used to combat the coronavirus pandemic Vaccines tested. For example, Chinese researchers have developed a corona vaccine that proved to be safe for test subjects in the first phase. After 28 days, a significant number of antibodies could be detected in all subjects, with which one against the Corona virus should be immune.

At the vaccine is a product of the Chinese biotechnology company CanSino Biologic, which with the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology was developed. However, as promising the results are, caution is required. For example, researcher Wei Chen, who was involved in the study, warned that it is still unclear how high the number of antibodies must be in order to combat this Corona virus to actually be immune. Further tests are necessary.

The US biotech company Moderna also heard of “positive interim results” in the first phase of clinical tests in mid-May Vaccine against that Corona virus reported. The one developed with the US health agency NIH vaccine mRNA-1273 caused an immune response in eight out of 45 study participants, the company said. This was similar to the reaction of infected people to it virus.

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