Coronavirus vaccine trial set to start – US government official

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday&comma; according to a US government official&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The National Institutes of Health is funding the trial&comma; which is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Testing will begin with 45 young&comma; healthy volunteers with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is no chance participants could get infected from the jabs&comma; because they do not contain the virus itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The goal is purely to check that the vaccines show no worrisome side effects&comma; setting the stage for larger tests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dozens of research groups around the world are racing to create a vaccine as Covid-19 cases continue to grow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Importantly&comma; they are pursuing different types of vaccines — jabs developed from new technologies that not only are faster to produce than traditional inoculations but might prove more potent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some researchers even aim for temporary vaccines&comma; such as jabs that might guard people’s health a month or two at a time while longer-lasting protection is developed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also in the works&colon; Inovio Pharmaceuticals aims to begin safety tests of its vaccine candidate next month in a few dozen volunteers at the University of Pennsylvania and a testing centre in Kansas City&comma; Missouri&comma; followed by a similar study in China and South Korea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Americans are the strongest and most resilient people on earth&&num;8230&semi;We will remove or eliminate every obstacle necessary to deliver our people the care that they need&comma; and that they are entitled to&period; No resource will be spared&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;gySUqewd4u">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;gySUqewd4u<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Donald J&period; Trump &lpar;&commat;realDonaldTrump&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;realDonaldTrump&sol;status&sol;1238603402457812992&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">March 13&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even if initial safety tests go well&comma; 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