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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by Madmallard on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:16AM (#22965471)
They tried corona virus vaccines already after the first SARS outbreak. When patients were re-exposed to the virus they had severe auto-immune lung pathologies. Sounds super problematic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/ https://jvi.asm.org/content/85/23/12201 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23563-threatwatch-cou...

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Re:The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine ... by tinus_hn on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:56AM (#23005388)
Note that in the reports mentioned, the ‘patients’ are mice and ferrets.
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