Is There Any Corona Vaccine?

Immunologist AndrásFalus told InfoRádió that some groups of scientists are already achieving serious results.

Four to five days ago, the WHO announced that a total of 62 research teams are currently working to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus.

The essence of vaccinations is that they create immune memory, so when the infection arrives, the immune cells already remember the virus," said András Falus, an immunologist, at InfoRádió.

There are, of course, many strategies behind vaccine developer ideas: one says they inject a live, attenuated body of the virus with the needle, the other says they use a small piece of the virus structure for immunization, and there is also a relatively innovative method.

“When it is not the virus or the pre-virus that is introduced, but a piece of gene by which the human cell itself begins to produce this particular antigen, it is there locally,” he outlined.

For coronavirus, a significant proportion of the 62 research teams are working on the "gene fragment" solution, but there is no vaccination at a stage that could be used clinically, but two are already being studied at the clinical level, which means that they experiment with them on volunteers.

"There is incredible rigor in human and animal experimentation in America and Europe, yet they are now skipping control steps and trying to produce a promising vaccine with incredible speed," Andras Falus said.

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András Falus does not consider it impossible that the vaccine will be available as early as this year.

To know much less about the work in Hungary than about the international ones, which he finds sad: since the problem is international, the cooperation must also be international.