A novel coronavirus vaccine has for the first time "largely protected" monkeys from infection during an animal trial. Sinovac Biotech said it injected two different doses of its vaccine into eight rhesus macaque monkeys and exposed them to the virus three weeks later, and they did not develop infections. All the monkeys "were largely protected against SARS-CoV-2 infection", Sinovac said in its findings. Four macaques who received a high dose of the vaccine had "no detectable" amounts of the virus in their lungs seven days after they were administered the pathogen. Another four monkeys given low doses showed an increase in the viral load in their bodies but appeared to have controlled the virus on their own.
anonymousCoronavirus April 24, 2020 at 5:10 pm
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