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To: 11th_VA

And there is no vaccine for this? Ebola is much worse I mean that thing kills you from within its horrible..with Pneumonia you have a fighting chance


23 posted on 01/21/2020 11:40:43 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The NIH is working on a vaccine.


26 posted on 01/21/2020 11:45:55 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Vaccines take time to test and make, if they’re even possible. There was no reasonably effective vaccine for Ebola until 2018 and it wasn’t approved for general use until literally just last month. It also may not protect against all forms of Ebola.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_vaccine#rVSV-ZEBOV

Consider that Ebola was first discovered in 1976 and you may see that there is some lead time here...

Fortunately, this one is a coronavirus, a general type that humanity has decent experience with and barring some nasty surprise or mutation, should be *relatively* routine to develop a vaccine for. The NIH announced that they are working on one, with clinical trials likely starting in a few months and general availability (should the trials go well) in about a year. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/health/coronavirus-nih-vaccine-development/index.html

One nasty thing about this is that it appears to have crossed the species barrier. Viruses that manage to do that tend to be on the nastier side.


43 posted on 01/21/2020 12:03:49 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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