Today, at the welcome ceremony for the medical team of the CDC’s aid team in Hubei returning to Beijing, Gao Fu, director of the CDC and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, disclosed that, depending on the trend of the epidemic, the new crown vaccine may be given to a portion of the population, such as medical personnel, to be used first by the end of the year in case of emergency. “To get herd immunity is two ways, one is natural immunity, which is natural infection, and one is to get immunity by vaccine.” Talking about the current situation of research and development of the new crown vaccine in China, Gao Fu said, “It’s not that we want to make a vaccine today and it will be successful tomorrow, drugs and vaccines have its research and development cycle. I believe that everyone will actively work hard to make the vaccine in the shortest possible time.” He said that at present, China’s adenovirus vector recombinant vaccine has entered the phase II clinic, some inactivated vaccines have entered the phase I clinic, there are some inactivated vaccines are planning to enter the phase I clinic, and there are also some other recombinant protein vaccines will soon enter the phase I clinic. For the timetable for vaccine development, Gao Fu said that if the normal process, it may take until the end of today, early next year to come out. However, if the epidemic trend is more powerful, may be in emergency situations, at the end of the year to some people, such as medical personnel to use. In this regard, he particularly emphasized that this must be used in emergency situations, and not for ordinary healthy people. Source: Beijing Daily