The United States has taken the option of having hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine manufactured, even before clinical trials have begun. They want to be ready for the market before others are. A risk in the form of a poker strike.
PlusBritish American Tobacco, the manufacturer of cigarette brands such as Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, said a potential vaccine against coronavirus was being developed from tobacco plants. According to the firm, tobacco plants cannot, by their nature, be used to produce a vaccine,
PlusScientists from one of the world's leading epidemiology centres, the American Johns Hopkins University, have just published an article that opens up unexpected prospects in these gloomy epidemic times. They explain how viral antibodies, contained in the blood serum of patients cured of coronavirus, could then be used to treat the disease.
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