The hunt for a coronavirus vaccine | podcast
Scientists in more than 40 labs around the world are working round the clock to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. Despite early success in sequencing the virus's genome, however, Samanth Subramanian tells Rachel Humphreys we are still some months away from knowing if one can be put into mass production
The search is well under way for a vaccine against the coronavirus that could prove a route out of the current crisis. Despite scientists such as Jonathan Heeney in Cambridge working all hours to develop an effective drug, however, we are still likely to be at least a year off from a mass immunisation programme.
The Guardian writer Samanth Subramanian has been following scientists' progress over the past three months from when they sequenced the virus's genome within days of it emerging to human vaccination trials that are already taking place. He tells Rachel Humphreys there is a lot of work to do to bring a vaccine to market.
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