Posted on 04/25/2020 5:35:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some Scientists fear that it may prove impossible to produce a working coronavirus vaccine and believe the world may have to simply learn to adapt to the permanent threat of COVID-19.
The UK's Chief Medical Officer, Christopher Whitty, told a Parliamentary committee on Friday that there was "concerning" evidence suggesting that it may not be possible to stimulate immunity to the virus.
"The first question we do not know is 'do you get natural immunity to this disease if you have had it, for a prolonged period of time?'" Whitty said.
"Now if we don't then it doesn't make a vaccine impossible but it makes it much less likely and we simply don't know yet.
He said there was "a little bit of evidence that some people have been reinfected with this having had a previous infection."
He added: "That's a slightly concerning situation."
Doubts about the possibility of a viable vaccine are based largely on the fact that no vaccine has ever been approved for use in the US or UK against other forms of coronavirus.
Whitty told the committee the evidence from other forms of coronavirus was that "immunity [to the virus] wanes relatively quickly."
He said that the world needs "to be careful that we don't assume that we are going to have a vaccine for this disease as we have had for, let's say measles, which once you have it you're protected for life."
"We cannot guarantee success," he added.
"Vaccines are looked for, for every infectious disease, they are not found for all of them."
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Ya think? ??
learn to adapt to the permanent threat of COVID-19.
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Like every other disease that preceded this.
The one thing we should do is restrict contact with China.
Their culinary and lab habits may kill us all yet.
Well if that’s the case the first thing we should do is end all government salaries and retirements.
Like AIDS?
I will not spend the rest of my life in fear and servitude, period.
It has already failed.
If antibodies don’t give immunity to WuFlu then the mechanism for vaccines is already neutered.
TRANSLATION: “We finally have you where we want you, and we are never going to let you go.”
BI is a bunch of leftist a-holes. Feed the hysteria keep the country shutdown.
They will get away with only WHAT WE LET THEM get away with.
We, as hunans, live under the threat of thousands of diseases. Are we to run in fear from them all?
That’s OK I will just stock up on Hydrocloroquine and Zpacks when I fell it coming on I will take my pills and be just fine!!
How many things do we not have a vaccine for and have learned how to live with them?
Dish out the HCQ and the testing!
Who the he’ll is going to take their Chinese vaccine anyway NOT ME!!!
he’ll = hell OOPS
Forty years ago some ‘scientists’ feared that the whole earth would be under a glacier by now.
Fifteen years ago some ‘scientists’ feared that the whole world would be a burning desert by now.
A lot of those ‘scientists’ in both categories above were / are the same people.
I find it difficult to worry about what ‘some scientists’ say they fear.
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98% of those who contract it have full recovery. 85% have little or no symptoms whatsoever......
As long as they insist on keeping businesses closed and all that crap, the slower it will spread thru the country........So yea, there just might be a flare up next fall but it will be the people who never had contact with it this summer......
“Some” scientists, eh? What about “other” scientists?
Yeah. Just like we all live with the fear of SARS
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