As Fall Arrives and Pressures Mount, Harvard Medical Researchers Press Forward on Two COVID Vaccine Trials

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, Dan H. Barouch is heading a COVID-19 vaccine effort in a partnership with pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson. Read Article

Vector-Based Vaccines Come to the Fore in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Adenovirus vectors deliver the genetic instructions for SARS-CoV-2 antigens directly into patients’ cells, provoking a robust immune response. But will pre-existing immunity from common colds take them down? Read Article

 

The big question over a Covid vaccine: Is it coming too fast to be trusted?

Dr Kathryn Stephenson, director of the Clinical Trials Unit for the Centre for Virology and Vaccine Research at Harvard University’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, told The Independent that the vaccine clinical trials she’s seen are all being conducted with the same safety measures as past trials. Read Article

Robust protection

COVID-19 vaccine candidate at Beth Israel prevents severe clinical disease in animals. Read Article

The Importance of Diversifying Covid Clinical Trials

In this edition of “Bloomberg Equality,” Dr. Kathryn Stephenson of Harvard Medical School talks with Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu about the history of Black and Latino communities feeling left out of the American health care system and the importance of diversifying coronavirus vaccine clinical trials. Watch Article

Scientists See Downsides to Top COVID-19 Vaccines From Russia, China

“Demonstrating safety and efficacy of a vaccine is very important,” said Dr. Dan Barouch, a Harvard vaccine researcher who helped design J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine. Read Article

 

Scientists see downsides to top COVID-19 vaccines from Russia, China

Many experts expressed skepticism about the Russian vaccine after the government declared its intention to give it to high-risk groups in October without data from large pivotal trials. Read Article

Four scenarios on how we might develop immunity to Covid-19

As the world wearies of trying to suppress the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many of us are wondering what the future will look like as we try to learn to live with it. Read Article

 

1st documented COVID-19 reinfection isn’t surprising, but may offer important clues about virus, experts say

“It’s an interesting and important case report. It answers the question [of] whether it’s possible to get re-infected: The answer is yes.” – Dan Barouch Read Article

 

Will need ‘multiple’ types of coronavirus vaccines to succeed against pandemic: Top Harvard scientist