versions of the current a virus which were harmless to humans researchers at the national institutes for health rocky mountain laboratory in montana tested the oxford vaccine on 6 monkeys now the animals were given a single dose and exposed to the current corona virus and after 4 weeks the monkeys are all healthy while other monkeys which were not inoculated and exposed to the corona virus did get sick speaking with the economic club of washington d.c. the united states top infectious disease specialist dr anthony said he was cautiously optimistic about these tests and spoke about the broader process of developing vaccines there are going to be a lot of candidates out there as you know a few of them are already well into phase one studies in humans to determine if it's safe and hopefully we can move along rather rapidly. and are they safe and effective in a timely manner which i've said right from the beginning would likely be a year to a year and a half and then the challenge will be to scale it up enough to be able to distribute it meaningfully both in this country and throughout the world. well the oxford