Scientists and pharma companies working to get vaccine doses rolling off the production line say the accelerated pace of development is staggering. "The 12 to 18 month forecast is still the best guess.
It is still worth noting how unprecedented even a 12 to 18 month timetable would be when we think about how long it typically takes to develop a vaccine," Jason Swartz, Assistant Professor of Public Health and the History of Medicine at Yale University in Connecticut in the United States tells the Morning Ireland Extra podcast.
A vaccine can take between five and 10 years to research, develop and produce. Morning Ireland Extra heard how San Diego-based Inovio Pharmaceuticals has conducted its first human tests on 40 volunteer subjects in a