5.1 Timeline
5.2 Projecting
According to a study published in January 31 on The Lancet, “further international seeding and subsequent local establishment of epidemics might become inevitable”.
However, vaccines and treatments for the 2019-nCoV could come sooner than projected. Eric von Hofe, chief scientific officer of NuGenerex Immuno-
Oncology shared that The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now more willing to consider using new technologies to develop vaccines and drug treatments and novel technologies like RNA interference and molecular clamps are having a greater acceptance than in the past. These new technologies will make it easier for the experts to finding the effective vaccines against the new coronavirus easier than it was during the outbreaks of MERS and SARS in the past.