Imperial College London of Oxford University has officially announced it will be recruiting volunteers who would be willing to take part in a vaccine test, the first human coronavirus experiment in Britain and potentially make the first vaccine in the world.
The criteria will be limited to healthy individuals aged 18 to 55, and is from the nearby area close to the University Hospital Southampton plus Bristol Children’s Vaccine Centre. The compensation? £190 to £625 worth of payment will be issued for them, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock proclaimed gravely that he and the organization he heads is ‘throwing everything at’ the British attempt.
£20 million is expected to be subsidized according to Mr Hancock, and a supplementary £22.
5m to Imperial College London’s other relate d project as well.Researchers at Oxford believe that if they are lucky and fast enough, they can bring about the end to the virus as early as September, only nine months after the initial identification of the virus and its lasting aftereffect.
Normally, vaccine tests usually come to fruition after about 18 months of arduous testing.
The Health Secretary said: ‘In the long run the best way to defeat coronavirus is through a vaccine.
After all, this is a new disease.
This is uncertain science, but I am certain that we will throw everything we’ve got at developing a vaccine. The UK is at the forefront of a global effort. We’ve put more money than any other country into the global search for a vaccine and, for all the efforts around the world, two of the leading vaccine developments are taking place here at home at Oxford and Imperial [College London].Both of these promising projects are making rapid progress and I’ve told the scientists leading them that we’ll do everything in our power to support.
’The project was given a further boost in its research area as there were previous data on studies that focused on treatment and vaccines of SARS and MERS.
However, warning of too much optimism, Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance advised the public that hoping for a direct resolution to the virus through this particular initial attempt of an experiment is by and far a ‘long shot’: ‘All new vaccines that come into development are long shots.
Only some end up being successful.
Coronavirus will be no different and presents new challenges for vaccine development. This will take time and we should be clear it is not a certainty. ’
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