COVID-19 Vaccines

Summary

COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is an illness caused by a virus. This virus is a new coronavirus that has spread throughout the world. Right now, there is no approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19. Researchers are working very hard to develop vaccines and test whether they are safe and effective. On this page, you can learn about this research. You can also find out how to volunteer for a vaccine clinical trial.

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• About COVID-19 Vaccines (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
• COVID-19 Vaccines (Food and Drug Administration)
• Help Find a Vaccine for COVID-19 (COVID-19 Prevention Network) Also in Spanish
• NIH COVID-19 Communities Responding Together (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish

Related Issues

• Fact Sheet: Explaining Operation Warp Speed (Department of Health and Human Services)
• Vaccines Protect Your Community (Department of Health and Human Services) Also in Spanish

Specifics

• 8 Things to Know about Vaccine Planning (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
• Beware of Fraudulent Coronavirus Tests, Vaccines and Treatments (Food and Drug Administration) Also in Spanish
• COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Vaccine: Get the Facts (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
• Dr. Anthony Fauci on COVID-19 Vaccines (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish
• Ensuring the Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
• Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 Vaccination (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish

Statistics and Research

• Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) (National Institutes of Health)
• Developing Therapeutics and Vaccines for Coronaviruses (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Fourth large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial begins in the United States (National Institutes of Health)

Clinical Trials

• ClinincalTrials.gov: COVID-19 Vaccines (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

• Article: Prospects and challenges for the upcoming influenza season.
• Article: Covid-19 vaccines: Should we allow human challenge studies to infect healthy...
• Article: Immune Correlates of COVID-19 Control.
• COVID-19 Vaccines -- see more articles