“As you know all the vaccines have been given at the moment as intramuscular injections,” Gilbert said on Wednesday local-time.
Avoiding labour-intensive COVID-19 vaccination programs could be a crucial factor in the world learning to live with the virus, which“But they will take time to develop,” Gilbert said of the pill or nasal spray. Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the Melbourne factory where the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab will be producedAny new product would likely take more than a year to eventuate because it would have to be developed and then go through pre-clinical and clinical trials. Regulators would also have to review it for approval.
“Oral vaccines are more cost effective to produce and can be easily stored and transported around the world,” he said last month.
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