A detailed guide to the coronavirus drugs and vaccines in development, & more

[SVPete]

I know some folks here are on other forums I infest and may have seen one or the other or both of these, but just to have them in their own unique thread here:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-drugs-and-vaccines-in-development/

A detailed guide to the coronavirus drugs and vaccines in development

Here’s a guide to some of the most talked-about efforts to treat or prevent coronavirus infection, with details on the science, history, and timeline for each endeavor.

Gilead Sciences
Approach: Treatment
Stage: Phase 3
...
Moderna Therapeutics
Approach: Vaccine
Stage: Phase 1
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CureVac
Approach: Vaccine
Stage: Preclinical
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GlaxoSmithKline
Approach: Vaccine
Stage: Preclinical
...
Inovio Pharmaceuticals
Approach: Vaccine
Stage: Preclinical
...
Johnson & Johnson
Approach: Vaccine and treatment
Stage: Preclinical
...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Approach: Treatment
Stage: Preclinical
...
Sanofi
Approach: Vaccine
Stage: Preclinical
...
Vir Biotechnology
Approach: Treatment
Stage: Preclinical

There is an Israeli firm's experimental vaccine that didn't make this list.

Keep in mind that China first identified what is now called Covid-19 to WHO on January 11/12, 2020, and this article is several days old.

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China informed WHO of the outbreak in Wuhan of unknown cause: December 31, 2019, https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unkown-cause-china/en/

Covid-19 identified to WHO: January 11 and 12, 2020, https://www.who.int/csr/don/12-january-2020-novel-coronavirus-china/en/

The US started screening arriving passengers from China: January 17, 2020, JFK, SFO LAX https://www.businessinsider.com/new-disease-virus-china-us-airports-screening-cdc-2020-1 ; O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson January 22, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/us-screenings-coronavirus-expanded-airports-atlanta-chicago/

Pharmaceuticals company working with US government to develop vaccine: January 22, 2020, Moderna, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/moderna-is-working-on-a-vaccine-for-chinas-deadly-coronavirus.html

State Department raised the travel advisory for China to Level 4, do not travel: January 31, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-flight-ban-delta-cuts-all-flights-white-house/4620989002/

Trump declared a public health emergency: January 31, 2020, https://abcnews.go.com/Health/delta-suspends-us-flights-china-amid-coronavirus/story?id=68666037

People entering the US from China forbidden: February 2, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/coronavirus-us-travel-restrictions/index.html This effectively ended flights from and to China, for obvious reasons. The current date for flights to resume is March 30, 2020.

Experimental vaccine submitted for testing: February 26, 2020, Moderna, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/business/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine/index.html

[SVPete]

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/darpas-firebreak-treatment-for-the-coronavirus

DARPA Races To Create a "Firebreak" Treatment for the Coronavirus

When DARPA launched its Pandemic Preparedness Platform (P3) program two years ago, the pandemic was theoretical. It seemed like a prudent idea to develop a quick response to emerging infectious diseases. Researchers working under the program sought ways to confer instant (but short-term) protection from a dangerous virus or bacteria.

Today, as the novel coronavirus causes a skyrocketing number of COVID-19 cases around the world, the researchers are racing to apply their experimental techniques to a true pandemic playing out in real time. “Right now, they have one shot on goal,” says DARPA program manager Amy Jenkins. “We’re really hoping it works.”

The P3 program’s plan was to start with a new pathogen and to “develop technology to deliver medical countermeasures in under 60 days—which was crazy, unheard of,” says Jenkins. The teams have proven they can meet this ambitious timeline in previous trials using the influenza and Zika viruses. Now they’re being asked to pull off the same feat with the new coronavirus, which more formally goes by the name SARS-CoV-2 and causes the illness known as COVID-19.

A whole other part of the US government is working on the Covid-19 virus, developing/using a technique that could become a standardized vaccine development technique.

[thundley4]

DARPA Races To Create a "Firebreak" Treatment for the Coronavirus

A whole other part of the US government is working on the Covid-19 virus, developing/using a technique that could become a standardized vaccine development technique.

DUmmies see that and think Trump caused the virus.