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Vacunas contra COVID19. Una carrera contra el tiempo [Vaccines against COVID19. A race against time]

 

Abstract


La enfermedad conocida con el nombre de COVID19 y su agente etiologico SARSCoV2 fueron identificados a finales del ano 2019 en la provincia de Wuhan, China y rapidamente notificados al mundo prontamente despues. La pandemia, declarada por la OMS el 11 de marzo del 2020, ha afectado a mas de 40 millones de personas en todos los paises del planeta y causado la muerte de mas de 1 millon de individuos. Para mitigar el impacto del virus en materia sanitaria, economica o social y para alcanzar la inmunidad colectiva de la poblacion global, es evidente que se requiere con urgencia el desarrollo de vacunas seguras y efectivas. El desarrollo de una potencial vacuna se inicio desde que la secuencia genetica del coronavirus estuvo disponible publicamente y ha progresado a una velocidad sin precedentes. En la actualidad, alrededor de 200 vacunas candidatas cursan etapas de investigacion preclinica y mas de 40 de ellas ya estan siendo evaluadas en seres humanos. Los datos publicados a la fecha sugieren que varias vacunas seguras y potencialmente eficaces estaran siendo aprobadas para su uso comercial a inicios del 2021. ABSTRACT COVID19, the disease, and its etiologic agent, the SARSCoV2, were identified at the end of 2019 in the Wuhan province, China, and notified to the world promptly therefater. The pandemics, declared by the WHO on March 11, 2020, has affected more than 40 million people in every country of the planet and caused the death of more than 1 million individuals. To mitigate the impact of this virus on health, economical and social matters, and to reach the goal of collective immunity, it is evident that safe and effective vaccines are urgently needed. The development of a potential vaccine was initiated as soon as the whole genomic sequence of the coronavirus was publicly available and it has progressed at a frenetic pace. Currently, around 200 vaccine candidates undergo preclinical studies and more than 40 are already in human clinical phases. Published data up to date indicate that various safe and potentially effective vaccines will be submitted for comercial approval at the begininning of 2021.

Volume 40
Pages None
DOI 10.37980/im.journal.rmdp.2020x1568
Language English
Journal None

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