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How was a COVID-19 vaccine found so quickly? – World – ReliefWeb
English News and Press Release on World about Health, HIV/Aids and Epidemic; published on 09 Feb 2021 by UNAIDS
As COVID-19 vaccination begins around the world, UNAIDS spoke to Peter Godfrey-Faussett, UNAIDS Senior Science Adviser and Professor of International Health and Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, about what is holding up an HIV vaccine.
Many people are asking, “How was a COVID-19 vaccine found so quickly?”
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the virus that causes COVID-19, jumped from animals into humans in 2019. Whereas for HIV, that jump occurred 100 years ago…
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