Scientists all over the world are working on finding ways to quickly test and develop vaccines for COVID-19.

The first step was finding and isolating the virus so other scientists and researchers can begin working with the live virus and come up with vaccines that may be able to defeat this illness.

In Canada, a joint team of researchers from Sunnybrook Hospital, the University of Toronto and McMaster University quickly collaborated to become one of the first in the country to isolate the COVID-19 virus. With that breakthrough, other Canadian researchers have started their work on combatting the disease.

Today we are talking with Dr. Karen Mossman, now in self isolation, who is a professor of pathology and molecular medicine and vice president of research at McMaster University.

She talks about what it took to isolate the virus, what creating a vaccine entails and what is giving her hope about all the work being done.

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A (now isolated) scientist who isolated the COVID-19 virus explains the fight for a vaccine - Toronto Star