--- title: 70 Coronavirus Vaccines Are Under Development, WHO Says description: There are 70 coronavirus vaccines in development globally, with three candidates already being tested in human trials, according to the WHO. canonical: https://time.com/5819887/coronavirus-vaccines-development-who/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-04-13T08:24:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:49.220Z article:section: Health og:title: 70 Coronavirus Vaccines Are Under Development, With 3 in Human Trials, WHO Says og:description: The furthest along in the clinical process is an experimental vaccine developed by Hong Kong-listed CanSino Biologics and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, og:url: https://time.com/5819887/coronavirus-vaccines-development-who/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf24b74d6b56d6eb4/698a0ccb09208f17be41696f/coronavirus-vaccine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2244 og:image:height: 1262 og:image:alt: APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Vaccine og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 70 Coronavirus Vaccines Are Under Development, With 3 in Human Trials, WHO Says twitter:description: The furthest along in the clinical process is an experimental vaccine developed by Hong Kong-listed CanSino Biologics and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf24b74d6b56d6eb4/698a0ccb09208f17be41696f/coronavirus-vaccine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 70 Coronavirus Vaccines Are Under Development, With 3 in Human Trials, WHO Says > Sponsored content. 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U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday — leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges._ by [Lisa Du / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Lisa Du / Bloomberg Contributor Apr 13, 2020 8:24 AM UTC  Neal Browning receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, Monday, March 16, 2020, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. Browning is the second patient to receive the shot in the study. Neal Browning receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, Monday, March 16, 2020, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. Browning is the second patient to receive the shot in the study. Ted S. Warren–AP by [Lisa Du / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Lisa Du / Bloomberg Contributor Apr 13, 2020 8:24 AM UTC There are 70 coronavirus vaccines in development globally, with three candidates already being tested in human trials, according to [the World Health Organization](https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/Novel%5FCoronavirus%5FLandscape%5FnCoV%5F11April2020.PDF?ua=1), as drugmakers race to find a cure for the deadly pathogen. The furthest along in the clinical process is an experimental vaccine developed by Hong Kong-listed CanSino Biologics and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, which is in phase 2\. The other two being tested in humans are treatments developed separately by U.S. drugmakers – and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, according to a WHO document. Progress is occurring at unprecedented speed in developing vaccines as the infectious pathogen looks unlikely to be stamped out through containment measures alone. The drug industry is hoping to compress the time it takes to get a vaccine to market — usually about 10 to 15 years — to within the next year. Drugmakers big and small have jumped in to try to develop a vaccine, which would be the most effective way to contain the virus. Pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer Inc. and Sanofi have vaccine candidates in the preclinical stages, according to the WHO document. CanSino [said](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/chinese-vaccine-approved-for-human-testing-at-virus-epicenter) last month it received Chinese regulatory approval to start human trials of its vaccine. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna — which has never put out a product — received regulatory approval to move quickly to human trials in March, skipping the years of animal trials that are the norm in developing vaccines. 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