Testing In Humans Underway; Potential Cure Could Be Widely Available By September
A new vaccine to fight the coronavirus is being developed by a lab at Oxford University that could save fall sports, concerts and festivals.
As well as get people back to work and back out in public and into the bars and restaurants.
“I have a high degree of confidents about this vaccine because it’s technology that I’ve used before, Sara Gilbert, a professor of vaccinology at the university, told CBS News.
Human testing is already underway and it could be widely available by September. That would mean that sports – such as the all-important college football and NFL seasons – as well as scheduled and re-scheduled concerts and festivals, could be operating, even with fans in the stands.
While this vaccine is a potential cure and not a prevention – that is still being developed at other labs around the world – it gives hope that life on the planet can return to normal in addition to providing some badly-needed positive news while new cases and deaths are being reported around the world.
The lab had already been working on a vaccine for a “close relative” of COVID-19.
If this happens – and confidence is high at the Oxford lab – then imagine going back to games, being outdoors, eating out at restaurants and partying in bars and at festivals and concerts.
Imagine being able to give someone a hug, to engage in close conversation, to hold up cups of beer and do “cheers” without thinking “hey, has that person been tested?”
Heck, we may even be able to do that without having to wear a mask.
At the very least it would provide us with the chance to get back to normal – the new normal anway.
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