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    Immune Response In Animals Good News For COVID-19 Vaccine Development

    Researchers found that a class of antibodies in a monkey's blood provides protection from COVID-19. If that hold true for humans, a blood test may predict whether a vaccine candidate is working.
    by Joe Palca Dec 04, 2020 2 minutes
    News of a good immune response in animals bodes well for testing future COVID-19 vaccines.

    News today from Harvard's Center for Virology and Vaccine Research may help solve a problem that future COVID-19 manufacturers are sure to face: how to make sure that new and potentially better vaccines actually work without doing extremely large and expensive studies.

    Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers show that a certain class of antibodies in a monkey's

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