Inside Canadas race for a COVID-19 vaccine

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 4:10 a.m.

A global race for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is underway. More than 160 of them are in different stages of testing around the world.\nCanada is in this race too. A group of scientists at the University of Saskatchewan's VIDO-InterVac - the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization in Saskatoon - are trying to get through a decade\u2019s worth of testing and approvals as early as next year. \nToday on Front Burner, CBC Saskatoon reporter Alicia Bridges takes us inside a lab working on a Canadian COVID vaccine, and inside the lives of the scientists trying to find it.