Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Vestus from Gimlett.

From early on in this outbreak, scientists have been on the hunt for something that could

shut this virus down and give us our lives back.

A vaccine.

A few months ago, there was a lot of excitement as the very first clinical trials for the

coronavirus began.

It was in record time.

The search for a coronavirus vaccine has become one of the fastest moving in history.

Vaccines usually take years, not months to produce.

This is happening at warp speed.

Never before, hundreds of scientists all over the world have been focused on the same thing

at the same time, creating a vaccine for COVID-19.

And more and more vaccine candidates are entering the fray.

We're at the point where around a dozen clinical trials are on the go.

Hundreds of people have volunteered for a jab in the arm to test all kinds of different

vaccines.

And as part of this, scientists are taking some big gambles.

The vaccine that we're looking at is an incredibly modern type of vaccine.

It's not the traditional way of building a vaccine.

So we're going as fast as humanly possible.

Many of them are not traditionally vaccine companies.

They are using novel ideas from oncology for things they've learned treating cancer.

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