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Is There a Vaccine For COVID19?
COVID19 is a new strain of coronavirus, a type of virus known to cause respiratory infections in humans. Therefore, it could be months or even years before the right treatments are available that can work against COVID-19. It could take an even longer period of time for a proper vaccine to be found.
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Nevertheless, there are other alternatives that we can impose to reduce the damage done by the novel coronavirus.
Despite the development of technologies that may enable us to shorten the time span that we spend to find a cure or vaccine, we still do have to rely on social distancing, contact tracing, self-isolation, and other measures.
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As of May 8, three drugs; the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the anti-viral remdesivir, and a drug used as a sedative for people on a ventilator had received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that allows doctors to treat COVID-19 patients with these drugs even without the formal FDA approval process.
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In mid-May, the small biotech company, Sorrento Therapeutics, announced it has an antibody-drug that has been effective in early testing in blocking the virus that causes COVID-19. They say the drug could potentially be used to treat people with COVID-19 as well as help prevent infection.
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Even so, these drugs are still being tested in clinical trials to see if they are really effective against COVID-19 along with possible side effects.