“A vaccine, normally takes 10 years to test has been rushed out to the masses. “
It’s not the 1960’s, there is NO WAY a vaccine should take 10 years to be developed.
That madness keeps live saving medical advances from people who need them .
Yes this vaccine was pushed out fast, but the techniques used to develop these are much advanced from the past.
We have Trump to thank for pushing the development quickly .
Too bad his campaign did do a better job taking credit.
The biggest politician/vaccine skeptic was Kamala Harris:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/05/politics/kamala-harris-not-trust-trump-vaccine-cnntv/index.html
Yeah?
So where is the AIDS vaccine then?
You bring up an interesting point.
Of course, there’s no science out there to explain the “science”, but my take on this mRNA vaccination method is that it is supposed to be both rapid to develop and cheap to produce and distribute. The “spike” sequence RNA has to be isolated, and the techniques are already understood for that, as the current vaccine demonstrates. I expect that mRNA production is simple chemically driven RNA replication, so no biologicals in production — cheap and rapid to get into production. The lipid encapsualization and other components of making an injectable are the same for any mRNA.
So, when does a Delta vaccine show up? That ought to give us a pretty good clue as to how long this first vaccine actually took to develop, if it cannot be done rapidly.
If it’s fast, as I think it should be 2nd time around, then get Delta out there, now. Target Delta and try to drive this back to the original strain as dominant. The already vaxed and recovered should be well protected.