Health & ScienceSeveral hundred people have been vaccinated as part of the human vaccine trial run by Oxford UniversityResults of a human trial of a coronavirus vaccine could be available by the middle of June, an expert has said. At the end of April, a team of researchers at Oxford started testing a Covid-19 vaccine in human volunteers. Around 1,110 are expected to take part in the trial, half receiving the vaccine candidate and the other half (the control group) receiving a widely available meningitis vaccine. He added that with the disease on the wane, there is a risk there may not be enough active disease to catch people. "We're doing those calculations because we have quite good data now on how much disease there is around," Prof Bell said.

Source: Standard Digital May 15, 2020 05:58 UTC