CoronaVac: A COVID-19 Vaccine Made From Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Virus

Interesting. First I’ve read of this.

The Shared Microscope

This article was written for Fancy Comma, LLC and the original version of this article was published on their blogsite.

The world is buoyed by the hope of a COVID-19 vaccine to help us move past the pandemic. In this post, we discuss CoronaVac, a front-runner in the COVID-19 vaccine race.

Internationally, scientists have been working at an impressive pace to learn more about COVID-19  and develop novel vaccines and therapeutics.  Worldwide, we all hope to have an answer to the question, “When will the pandemic end?”  It is becoming clear that a COVID-19 vaccine will need to be a crucial tool to combat COVID-19.

The race to a vaccine got a good start in January 2020, when China published the genetic sequence for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Since then, dozens of laboratories around the world are now the battlegrounds in the race to develop a COVID-19…

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