How is a vaccine approved? The clinical trials process is a thorough one. Typically the clinical trials and approval process for a vaccine takes around 10 years. However with Covid-19 this process was accelerated considerably and the approval was through in under a year. This was achieved by collaboration between many different organisations.
The route to approval is normally linear, that is one phase has to be completed before the next one starts. Because of the pandemic, different phases were completed in parallel, meaning they took place at the same time. The BBC have created the graphic below explaining the process.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av-embeds/57152719/vpid/p0917mb3
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