>>12009390A cure will probably not come for years. There are at least 135 different programs working on vaccines, several of which have advanced past the safety tests (making sure they aren't poisonous) far enough to do mass effectiveness testing (making sure they actually work).
Moderna started it's phase 3 test on 30,000 US citizens 3 weeks ago. Oxford University AstraZeneca Group starts their phase 3 test on an unspecified number of at least 10,000 uk citizens in September. CanSino has started mass testing on the People's Revolutionary Army.
Several other companies (Merck, Johnson&Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Bharat) have signed Billion-USD contracts to deliver millions of phase 3 tests before December 1.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.htmlJust check this page once a fortnight or so.
