5년에서 10년 걸리는 백신이 1년만에 어떻게..? 메디컬 코리아 심포지엄에서 논하다<br /><br />The question is: when will a vaccine be ready?<br />Speaking at the Medical Korea Symposium on Wednesday, Director-General of the International Vaccine Institute, Jerome Kim, said that he believes a vaccine will be ready be early 2021 or even before the end of this year.<br />Our Kim Yeon-seung reports.<br />"I think it's likely that we will have evidence of safety and efficacy by later this year or early 2021."<br />Among the medical experts that attended Wednesday Medical Korea Symposium event, Director General of the International Vaccine Institute, Jerome Kim, along with Poo Ha-ryoung, a bioscience investigator seemed hopeful of a COVID-19 vaccine being ready soon.<br />A vaccine usually takes five to 10 years of research and development as well as billions of dollars in investment.<br />But there are ways to shortern the process to 12 months.<br />"They speed the process up by simultaneously conducting phase one and two. That's why they say the whole process can be done in a year."<br />Currently, biotechnology companies like Moderna and Johnson and Johnson are taking the lead in the race to produce coronavirus vaccines with their reaching beyond the final phases of clinical trial.<br />But the real winner isn't who produces the vaccine first, but the one that can produce billions of doses safely and efficiently.<br />"But what does the day after efficacy look like? The big question, who's going to make 16 billion doses of vaccine?"<br />With developers seeking reputable companies to produce safe and effective vaccines, South Korean firm SK Bioscience is currently working with Astrazeneca and Novavax to expand production and distribution.<br />Kim Yeon-seung, Arirang News<br />
