WHO says 70 vaccines for coronavirus are in development

By Anthony Leonardi

Published April 14, 2020 5:46pm ET

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WHO says 70 vaccines for coronavirus are in development — Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. | (Vernon Bryant/AP)

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.

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