{"id":103085,"date":"2020-03-01T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/this-years-old-vaccine-may-protect-against-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-03-01T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T16:02:50","slug":"this-years-old-vaccine-may-protect-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/this-years-old-vaccine-may-protect-against-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"This years-old vaccine may protect against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-years-old-vaccine-may-protect-against-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As doctors around the world continue to mobilize against the coronavirus COVID-19 and try to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/working-coronavirus-vaccine\">develop a vaccine<\/a>, one doctor thinks he may have an ace in the hole.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, Peter Hotez, a vaccine and infectious disease specialist at Baylor College of Medicine, worked on a vaccine that protected lab mice from SARS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/health\/article\/Is-the-vaccine-to-thwart-the-new-coronavirus-15075445.php\">according to the <em>Houston Chronicle<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was abandoned and the vaccine never tested on humans because it took until 2016 \u2014 16 years after the SARS outbreak ended \u2014 to manufacture it. But now, Hotez suspects that minor adjustments could turn it into a viable defense against COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As doctors around the world continue to mobilize against the coronavirus COVID-19 and try to develop a vaccine, one doctor thinks he may have an ace in the hole. Years ago, Peter Hotez, a vaccine and infectious disease specialist at Baylor College of Medicine, worked on a vaccine that protected lab mice from SARS, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}