3 ms·
Has there ever been an attempt to develop a vaccine against SARS or MERS? If so, what happened? Did it fail or was is just not needed anymore?
by jansan 6y ago
Has there ever been an attempt to develop a vaccine against SARS or MERS? If so, what happened? Did it fail or was is just not needed anymore?
- eeemmmooo 6y agoFrom my understanding, they were started, but then both SARS and MERS burned out so fast that they couldn’t find enough candidates to test the vaccines by the time they got to trials.
- basch 6y agoThat's how these got developed so fast, take a MERS vaccine and update it. Click the wikipedia article, and click to the History section.
- mumblemumble 6y agoWikipedia has a brief summary of prior work on vaccines against other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#History
- gizmo686 6y agoSARS had several canditate vaccines in human trials. These were all shelved once it was erradicated. MERS vaccine development is ongoing, with promising canditates in human trials.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoLate stage vaccine trials are conducted by vaccinating a bunch of people and then seeing how many get infected versus a control group. So it's not just a matter of "not needed"; the trials simply couldn't be performed without an active outbreak of the disease. There was a lot of promising early-stage development.