Coronavirus: Encouraging Results of Oxford Vaccine Trial

Preliminary results from the coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University have arrived And it’s seemingly safe and enabling the immune system to fight the disease. It was tested on 1,077 people and they were injected so they make antibodies and white blood cells in their body that can fight the coronavirus. The UK has already ordered 10 million doses of the drug.

How does the vaccine work?

This vaccine is called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, which is being developed so fast that there is no precedent for it. The vaccine is being developed from a genetically modified virus that infects monkeys with the common cold. The virus has been modified so that it does not infect humans and looks like a coronavirus. Scientists have transmitted the genetic properties of coronavirus-like proteins in the body to the vaccine. This means that the vaccine will be similar to the coronavirus and the human immune system will learn how to attack the coronavirus.