Health
COVID hunter’s Australian-first vaccine trial – Ballina Shire Advocate
A COVID-19 vaccine is set to be the first from Australia to make international trials, with or without federal government backing, says developer.
Nikolai Petrovsky has little time for socialising right now, but he’s grateful he once did. If the Flinders University professor can produce an effective COVID-19 vaccine to help save the planet, it will all come back to a conversation over drinks in Canberra one night in the early 2000s.
In July, Petrovsky’s Covax-19 became the first Australian vaccine to be tested on people. While results haven’t been officially completed, he says this small Phase 1 trial showed the vaccine was safe, well-tol…
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