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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
I think that's wishful thinking seeing as we don't have vaccines for MERS or SARS, both corona viri, after 15-20 years.
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That's mainly down to how many people are looking for one and why one was or is needed
https://theconversation.com/the-myst...e-other-137583
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What about a SARS vaccine? Vaccine studies for SARS-CoV-1 were started and tested in animal models. An inactivated whole virus was used in ferrets, nonhuman primates and mice. All of the vaccines resulted in protective immunity, but there were complications; the vaccines resulted in an immune disease in animals. No human studies were done, nor were the vaccine studies taken further because the virus disappeared. Many factors were involved in the end of SARS-CoV-1, perhaps including summer weather, and certainly strict quarantine of all those who had contact with infected individuals, but we don’t really know why the epidemic ended. Viruses are like that, unpredictable!
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Mers is different and work is still going for that but has less funding and focus worldwide.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-12-19...s-saudi-arabia
Also the work that was done for those is helping now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine
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Previous work to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus diseases SARS and MERS established knowledge about the structure and function of coronaviruses – which accelerated development during early 2020 of varied technology platforms for a COVID‑19 vaccine.
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