WHO says there are 70 coronavirus vaccines in development globally. But we still have a long way to go
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Some world leaders have cited different possibilities.

Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that Donald Trump has praised, hasn’t helped patients clear the coronavirus and was much more likely to cause side effects
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Companies are testing other medicines to see if the effects of the coronavirus can be soothed.

AstraZeneca is experimenting with one of its new cancer medicines to see whether it can quell the excessive immune response Covid-19 triggers in some patients https://trib.al/9Nn7mc3 
Some human trials have already begun.

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine was one of the first to begin human trials in the U.S.
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Across the globe, OPfizer and BioNTech won approval for Germany’s first human clinical trials of a possible coronavirus vaccine
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Everyone’s eager to find the cure.

A coronavirus vaccine trial at the University of Oxford aims to have administered the shot to 500 volunteers within a month
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Ultimately, Covid-19 vaccine expectations may be getting ahead of science. One Oxford scientist says that a vaccine could be ready by September, but that’s well ahead of guidance from U.S. agencies that have suggested it is likely to take a year or more
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