making all sorts of claims about how near or far we are away from a vaccine you run the international vaccine institute what kind of time and we talking about so at any party who's. very well known and very well respected at we will know the answer of whether the vaccine works in 12 months and depending on how you know the approvals process goes to the u.s. at the a or through other regulatory agencies then with expedited review of the data on both where that actually works and very importantly if the vaccine is safe. approval could come within weeks and assuming that the company has been scaling up manufacture during the time when the final tests were done then a vaccine could come online very shortly after the you know the approval. most companies like the big company when they're doing a vaccine or in the final piece of testing are already developing the manufacturing facilities in order to have the vaccine when once it's a crew so you know what seppi it will be a little different because it's not a big company and you're saying elaborating 12 months to get it check it works and then a few weeks aft

than half the international total of more than $175000.00 the 1st participant in a clinical trial of a vaccine for the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose at the research institute in the us state of washington and iran is reporting another $129.00 coronavirus deaths taking its toll to $853.00 meanwhile experts are scrambling to find medications that could help fight this one existing drug in particular has given scientists new hope of more on that we're joined by d.w. science correspondent derrick williams welcome derek the drug scientists excited was actually developed to fight it bola tell us more about it. well the drug is called and does appear and it was originally to designed to in the fight against the but it actually didn't prove terrifically effectively it effective against people of what it did prove to be more effective against were coronaviruses they tested it against sars and mers and it and it works by messing up a very basic level with replication of the virus that's the effective mechanism for the good thing about this particular drug in the reason they're sort of moving they're not trying to develop drugs from scratch because that takes far too