The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford

Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by lbeltrame on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:52PM (#22963034)

That is also why all the major players with vaccine development already in humans (including but not limited to this one) have already started making manufacturing deals with large pharmaceutical corpoprations.

Vaccination on large scale will likely require tens of millions of doses, if not more (and let's not forget you may need more than one inoculation).

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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by dehrmann on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:22AM (#22964602)

The vaccine manufacturing point needs way more attention. We were talking about ventilator manufacturing weeks after there was no chance they'd be done in time.

The economic benefits to distributing a vaccine quickly would be huge, but I haven't heard world leaders talking about how to do it--they're still on the last war. Luckily, Bill Gates is spending on it, but this needs way more attention because this is our chance to be ahead of the virus for once.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/bill-gates-7-potentia...

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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by wikibob on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:23PM (#22964312)

Where do you derive the “tens of millions” of for the number of doses required?

That wouldn’t even be enough to vaccinate a mid sized EU country.

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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by lbeltrame on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:57AM (#22965095)

I originally wrote "billions", thought I was exaggerating, so I edited the post. Probably off on the other side of the interval.

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