Russian government fundedDespite optimistic reports of early trials, a vaccine against coronavirus is likely to be over a year away.
Vaccine design expert Maria Bottazzi of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, says it’s “unrealistic” to expect a Covid-19 vaccination to be available this year, and suggests that we should be thinking more in terms of a 12 to 18 month delay.
But even though a coronavirus vaccine is unlikely to be widely available until 2022, or even later, bizarre conspiracy theories are already spreading misinformation about its effects.
Bill Gates has announced that rather than developing one vaccine, he is financing research into seven different formulas at once to save time – a strategy that he says may cost