Can Tobacco Plants Provide Vaccine For Coronavirus?

Tobacco has become a vilified plant in modern society but it could also hold the key to ridding the world of the threat posed by COVID-19. As medical professionals around the world race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, British American Tobacco (BAT) is studying its own potential remedy for the viral pandemic–tobacco plants.

BAT is known for its tobacco brands like Lucky Strike but in recent weeks it’s turned its turned its focus on finding an answer to the growing coronavirus situation. According to a report from The Guardian, BAT is hopeful that with the right partners and support from the government, between 1-3 million doses of the vaccine could be manufactured per week beginning in June 2020.

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