On pins and needles: Tracking COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics

"Key stakeholders will need to continue to monitor and adapt to new data and new variants emerging across the globe to respond effectively.
In this update, we track the progress of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics as new clinical data and virus variants emerge.
Since we shared our perspectives on COVID-19-vaccine development in July 2020, the pandemic has grown in proportion across most of Europe and North America, with more than a million new cases every two days, and more than 10,000 deaths per day. Even communities that managed to flatten the curve in the spring and summer of 2020 found themselves backsliding in the fall. The loss of lives and livelihoods has been devastating—and that isn’t over yet—but there are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic about global recovery, not the least of which is the progress made to date on the pursuit of vaccines and other treatments for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
At least six vaccine manufacturers and two antibody-medicine manufacturers have shared preliminary results on the efficacy of their products—data that have outperformed the initial expectations of most experts. Already, the first vaccinations have been administered in more than 50 countries, including Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, most countries in western Europe, and the United States. Such progress has instilled hope in many that vaccines may, indeed, “save the world.”..." Lire la suite