CanSino's Inhaled COVID Vaccine Shows Early Promise As Potential Booster

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Early study results show CanSino’s inhaled vaccine for COVID-19 triggered an immune response similar to its injected counterpart.

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CANSINO INHALED COVID VACCINE SHOWS EARLY PROMISE AS BOOSTER FOR FULLY VACCINATED • Source: Alamy

CanSino Biologics Inc.’s Ad5-nCoV is a single-shot COVID-19 vaccine based on an adenovirus platform that gained emergency use approval in China after regulators granted similar clearances to inactivated virus-based vaccines from state-owned Sinopharm Group Co. Ltd. and privately held Sinovac Biotech Ltd.

But despite obtaining the approval, CanSino’s vaccine has been largely absent from the picture in China, where inactivated vaccines dominate...

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