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Coronavirus vaccines leap through safety trials — but which will work is anybody’s guess

Scientists caution against comparing immune responses shown in early-stage trials, and say there might be more than one path to an effective vaccine.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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When it rains, it pours. In the past few days, scientists working at feverish pace to develop vaccines against the coronavirus have released a flood of data from their first human trials.

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Nature 583, 669-670 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02174-y

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