The World Health Organization announced that over 70 vaccines for the coronavirus are in development, with three currently being tested on people.
Two U.S. biotechnology companies, Moderna Inc. and Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., and one Chinese company, CanSino Biologics Inc., are testing their treatments in clinical trials on humans, according to the WHO. Potential vaccines from another 67 companies are in preclinical evaluation.
The international health entity included a disclaimer to its vaccine landscape indicating that the “inclusion of any particular product or entity in any of these landscape documents does not constitute, and shall not be deemed or construed as, any approval or endorsement by WHO of such product or entity.”
“These landscape documents have been prepared by the World Health Organization (WHO) for information purposes only concerning the 2019-2020 global of the novel coronavirus,” the disclaimer added.
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Researchers are aiming to have a vaccine on the market within a year, a process that typically takes 10-15 years, as the world continues to grapple with the pandemic.
Of those tested for the coronavirus, over 1.9 million people have proven positive across every continent except Antarctica. At least 121,000 have died from the virus, and more than 565,000 have recovered.
In the United States, there have been at least 584,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, with nearly 3 million people being tested. Twenty-three thousand and seven hundred deaths and 44,300 recoveries were also reported, according to the latest reading of the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
