Healthy volunteers will test different doses of the first vaccine to find out if it is safe.
The first testing
in humans of an experimental vaccine for the new coronavirus began on
Monday, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
announced.
The main goal of this first
set of tests is to find out if the vaccine is safe. If it is, later
studies will determine how well it works.
The trial was “launched in record speed,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the institute’s director, said in a statement.
Such
rapid development of a potential vaccine is unprecedented, and it was
possible because researchers were able to use what they already knew
about related coronaviruses that had caused other diseases outbreaks,
SARS and MERS.
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