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Sounds promising. 1 million vaccine doses could be available by September this year if this project is successful (estimates that there is an 80% chance of the vaccine being proved effective). https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1251791687573176320
Human trials begin on Thursday. https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1252653119504351233
The Oxford vaccine is one of 8 with clinical trials currently in progress. There are 94 others in development. Several different approaches. You'd hope that at least one of them has got this thing figured out. https://www.who.int/who-documents-detail/draft-landscape-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines #Covid19
The Oxford vaccine team are still making positive noises.
(Don't bother reading the comments below the article, they will make you stupider). https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1295453/coronavirus-vaccine-latest-news-uk-covid19-oxford-university-trials-drug-treatment
(Don't bother reading the comments below the article, they will make you stupider). https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1295453/coronavirus-vaccine-latest-news-uk-covid19-oxford-university-trials-drug-treatment
Imperial's vaccine candidate begins human trials. This is the second of the two vaccine candidates being bankrolled by the UK government (different approach to Oxford). It's the 13th worldwide to reach this stage. This one hopes to be ready in early 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061288
The Chinese are also claiming good progress. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/worlds-1st-inactivated-covid-19-vaccine-produces-antibodies-301082558.html
"A single successful trial showing efficacy would allow a regulator to approve the vaccine for emergency use... That could happen in October... full approval, which would require results from multiple trials, could come early in 2021." http://inews.co.uk/news/science/coronavirus-vaccine-uk-latest-oxford-race-scientists-august-covid-19-trials-497704
Russia is intending to be first. There are suggestions that, even if safe, this vaccine won't be as effective as other candidates since it's based on human adenoviruses that some people will already be immune to (this is why Oxford is using a chimp virus). https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/europe/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-approval-intl/index.html
The reason Russia is "first" is because it has approved the vaccine for use before even starting the phase 3 trials that other candidate vaccines are currently engaged in. It's a bigger gamble than other countries are prepared to take. https://sputnikvaccine.com/about-vaccine/clinical-trials/
'They've jumped the gun': scientists worry about Russia's Covid-19 vaccine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/12/a-poor-vaccine-is-worse-than-no-vaccine-the-challenges-faced-by-scientists
“The best case scenario is that that happens this year ... more likely is the early part of next year ... in the first few months of next year is the most likely." https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/matt-hancock-uk-coronavirus-vaccine-next-year-a4541561.html
Slightly behind the ambitious timeline suggested at the start of this thread but some light at the end of the tunnel: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin/oxford-covid-19-vaccine-prompts-immune-response-among-adults-old-and-young-astrazeneca-says-idUSKBN27B0IV
