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Originally Posted by Russ
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There was a report a few weeks ago from China of early promise in trials of a SARS vaccine.
Covid-19 and SARS are both caused by coronaviruses so this is not entirely surprising - remember the original vaccine was the use of cowpox virus to provoke an immune response that also provided protection against smallpox. Both those diseases are caused by closely related orthopox viruses.