{"id":103855,"date":"2020-03-16T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-ready"},"modified":"2020-03-16T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:42:44","slug":"coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-ready","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus vaccine could be ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-ready.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials say they\u2019ll have a coronavirus vaccine ready next month for emergency situations and clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>Eight institutes in the country are working on five approaches to inoculations in an effort to combat COVID-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3074032\/progress-against-coronavirus-china-new-cases-wane-epidemic-hot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the South China Morning Post<\/a>. The contagious illness has sickened more than 118,000 people and killed at least 4,200 worldwide, mostly in mainland China, as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to our estimates, we are hopeful that in April some of the vaccines will enter clinical research or be of use in emergency situations,\u201d Zheng Zhongwei, director of the National Health Commission\u2019s Science and Technology Development Center, said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese officials say they\u2019ll have a coronavirus vaccine ready next month for emergency situations and clinical trials. Eight institutes in the country are working on five approaches to inoculations in an effort to combat COVID-19, according to the South China Morning Post. The contagious illness has sickened more than 118,000 people and killed at least [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103855","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}