COVID vaccine believed to have stopped virus

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh believe they have tested a potential vaccine for coronavirus, one that could “significantly impact the spread of disease.”

“We developed this to build on the original scratch method used to deliver the smallpox vaccine to the skin, but as a high-tech version that is more efficient and reproducible patient to patient,” Dr. Louis Falos, the paper’s co-senior author, said in the release. “And it’s actually pretty painless — it feels kind of like Velcro.”

Researchers said that the microneedle vaccine was tested on mice and created “a surge of antibodies” that was sufficient to fight the novel coronavirus.

The animals haven’t been tracked yet for the long term, but so far the progress looks promising, the news release stated.