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    Will We Have a COVID-19 Vaccine Before 2021?

    by Helen Stillwell Mar 19, 2020 3 minutes

    The time it took Moderna Therapeutics to develop and prepare a vaccine for the novel coronavirus (pictured above, with its spike protein in the foreground) after learning of the virus’ genetic sequence from Chinese scientists in January is extraordinary.NIH

    Is there a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2? The internet is awash with articles and posts seeking to shed light on this very question.

    Currently, there is no approved vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. While several companies have announced vaccine candidates in development, it is still unlikely that a vaccine will play a significant role in the current outbreak.

    In the United States, vaccine That being said, certain allowances can be made in the case of an outbreak, and we are getting better at developing platform technologies that allow for the development of viable candidates at increasingly faster rates.

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