Daily Telegraph – When will a Covid-19 vaccine be ready in the UK? Latest updates from around the world September 30, 2020 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

ByAnnelies Gartner ; Lizzie Roberts and Christopher Hope, Volunteers could soon be deliberately infected with coronavirus in trials to speed up a vaccine and discover if people are protected if they have already had the disease. In a groundbreaking trial, scheduled to begin in January at the Royal Free Hospital in London, patients will be inoculated with a vaccine developed by Imperial College, and then exposed to coronavirus. “Challenge trials” are controversial, but can give a quick…

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Sunday Telegraph – Vaccine hunters: meet the scientists racing to find a cure March 16, 2020 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

As the WHO warns of a shortfall in funding for vaccines, infection experts speak of their fight to stop the spread by Joe Shute In a laboratory in the depths of Imperial College London, all eyes are on a group of mice scurrying about their daily business. The rodents were injected a few weeks ago with a prototype vaccine which it is hoped will achieve what the world has so far singularly failed to do…

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