Good news !! coronavirus vaccines is in market and devoloping companies

There are 90 corona virus vaccines in the world, more than 70% are being developed by private companies. Why is it so important that the Spanish vaccine is on time?

They give a date for one of them to be on the market: 18 months.

There are different ways to approach a vaccine, depending on the way you choose to attack the virus or prevent its proliferation, and there are at least 90 first-rate laboratories working day and night to develop their own vaccine, according to data published in Nature. They give a date for one of them to be on the market: 18 months.



Researchers are testing different technologies, some of which have never been used in a licensed vaccine before. At least six groups have already begun testing them on human volunteers; Others have begun testing on animals. The Spanish CNB-CSIC vaccine begins tests on mice this week.

More than 70% of the groups leading the vaccine research efforts belong to private companies.

Whoever gets it, in addition to being on the list of Nobel candidates, will have in his hand a world market that he demands without question. What price to put and who will receive it first are two of the big questions after getting it. Jesús Díez Manglano, vice president of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) and internist at the Royo Villanova Hospital in Zaragoza put it this way in an interview on QUO.es: «When the vaccine is obtained, for a short period there will not be for everyone . If it is made in the USA, will it be transferred to African countries? Will the US be first? If it is done in Spain, would we want to be the first to get vaccinated by the Spanish? These are dilemmas that are going to come upon us and, unfortunately, they are going to continue to make a gap between rich and poor ».

    We cannot depend on Chinese or North Americans. If so, we will have the vaccine when 1.5 billion Chinese and 300 million Americans have been vaccinated

Ignacio Jesús Molina Pineda, Professor of Immunology at the University of Granada, also posed this dilemma: «We cannot depend on Chinese or North Americans. If so, we will have the vaccine when 1.5 billion Chinese and 300 million Americans have been vaccinated. We have to have a vaccine in Spain ».

In this graph published by Nature magazine it is possible to see how many of the studies in development are public, university, and private. The volume of investigations of the North American private industry, as expected, is ahead ten heads with respect to China, Europe and Australia in this rare race where international cooperation for a pandemic that affects us all has not been achieved.

Coronavirus vaccine research groups worldwide, public and private

The Spanish vaccine is going at a good pace: animal testing begins

The Spanish vaccine, which is being developed by the research group led by Mariano Esteban together with Juan García Arriaza, begins this week to be tested on animals.

The process of generating a vaccine goes through several phases, which take several months each. Firstly, the generation of the vaccine prototype in the laboratory, by means of tests on cells in culture. This phase has already been completed. They have found that there are real possibilities of inducing protection with a single dose of the vaccine, which has been achieved in previous laboratory projects for the generation of vaccines against Ebola, Zika and Chikungunya.

Thus, the research of Esteban's group starts a new phase and preclinical tests with animal models begin to see if it produces a protective immune response against the pathogen, and that it is safe and does not cause adverse effects.

José Honrubia Belenguer, from the CNB of the CSIC, published an image on his twitter account. We note his recommendation: "Please remain in quarantine."