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SARS‐CoV‐2 is the novel coronavirus behind the COVID‐19 pandemic. Since its emergence, the global scientific community has mobilized to study this virus, and an overwhelming effort to identify COVID‐19 treatments is currently ongoing for a variety of therapeutics and prophylactics. In order to better understand these efforts, we compiled a list of all COVID‐19 vaccines undergoing pre‐clinical and clinical testing using the WHO and ClinicalTrials.gov database, with details surrounding trial design and location. The most advanced vaccines are discussed in more detail, with a focus on their technology, advantages and disadvantages, as well as any available recent clinical findings. We also cover some of the primary challenges, safety concerns, and public responses to COVID‐19 vaccine trials, and consider what this can mean for the future. By compiling this information, we aim to facilitate a more thorough understanding of the extensive COVID‐19 clinical testing vaccine landscape as it unfolds, and better highlight some of the complexities and challenges being faced by the joint effort of the scientific community in finding a prophylactic against COVID‐19.
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