Posted on 06/19/2020 2:16:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, a vaccine has been widely regarded as the best path toward reopening society and returning to normalcy. Scientists have worked around-the-clock to develop a vaccine even entering late-stage human studies at record speed for the disease that has killed more than 430,000 people worldwide.
Yet, despite these Herculean efforts, scientists say a one-time cure-all is unlikely. Data on close cousins of the COVID-19 virus, including seasonal coronaviruses that cause the common cold, suggests the COVID-19 vaccine probably won't offer lifelong protection -- although more research is needed to understand how well and for how long a potential vaccine could work.
It's a problem significant enough to worry Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has been excited at the chance of developing a vaccine, but hesitant to predict how long it might work.
"When you look at the history of coronaviruses, the common coronaviruses that cause the common cold, the reports in the literature are that the durability of immunity that is protective ranges from three to six months to almost always less than a year," Dr. Fauci said in an interview with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner.
"That's not a lot of durability and protection," Fauci said.
And although it's too soon to say how long a COVID-19 vaccine might protect you, an executive at AstraZeneca, one of the companies working to develop an effective vaccine, told a radio station that he thinks his vaccine might only offer protection for one year.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Give it to the people in Chaz/Chop.
I believe Israel said they’d have a vaccine in two or three weeks. That was two or three months ago.
none for me thank you.
How’s the common cold vaccine coming?
How’s the AIDS vaccine coming?
How’s the flu vaccine coming?
...
The annual flu vaccine doesn’t have 100% success rate. Any vaccine will still reduce the incidence of Covid.
I’m not taking a damn thing.
Don’t know, I do know I won’t be taking it.
I suspect that at best it may be like the HPV vaccine.
That vaccine only protects from about 70% of such virus types.
That can then vary further over time.
Or the MERS and SARS vaccines?
It will look exactly like the existing “Flu” vaccines. 10-20% percent effectiveness with possible Genocide Bill Gates add-ons.
Tell me again because I don’t remember if I heard it before, does having had the disease give one immunity to re-infection?
The whole point of the vaccine will be to make the disease less severe and give the sheeple some semblance of calm so we can just open up. Our water in it for all I care we should vaccinate against truly lethal and devistating diseases. Polio, diphtheria, measles and mumps are all reasonable vaccines. I am not sure chicken pox is reasonable except that it may prevent zoster. Hi estoy this is beyond ridiculous. We can’t live forever. By blocking disease we will probably shorten life expectancy.
The Wu-Flu (not Covid) vaccine is coming right after our promised nuclear fusion that was just a few years down the road - many years ago.
A vaccine with 75% effectiveness would drop R0 from 4.0 to 1.0 if everyone took it - meaning the spread rate would be negligible. In the real world, some people are already immune and some won’t take a vaccine, but even moderate effectiveness will have a huge benefit.
Maybe it will work as good as the swine flu vaccine did.
But we’ll keep forcing you to wear masks and socialist distance until we have that vaccine anyway.
15 days to “flatten the curve”... Yeah, sure.
.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.