U.S. Army researchers at Fort Detrick in Maryland have begun testing potential vaccines for the novel coronavirus on animals, officials said.
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick is testing on “non-human primates,” Jonathan Hoffman, the assistant to the secretary of Defense for public affairs, told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday, according to The Baltimore Sun.
“I think it’s important for everyone to keep in mind that this is a process that is going as quickly as it can,” added Paul Friedrichs, an Air Force brigadier general who serves as Joint Staff surgeon. “We’re balancing, again, that risk of how do we make sure any vaccine candidates are safe?”
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