Australian researchers are only six to eight weeks away from being able to test their coronavirus vaccine on humans.
An Adelaide-based professor says his team is only six to eight weeks away from being able to test their COVID-19 vaccine on humans.
If it is proven to work, Professor Petrovsky is aiming to have his vaccine ready for mass production by the end of the year. Professor Petrovsky was not the only one to have his vaccine funding cut off; a worldwide lack of funding meant no lab in the world was able to finalise and produce the SARS vaccine.
They say they are only two weeks away from testing it on humans and just five months away from finalising the vaccine, but Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy is warning the community against hoping for a speedy end to the pandemic. "We cannot be unrealistic, and none of these announcements that I have heard give me enough confidence to say that those dates will be met," he said.
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