UK Coronavirus Caccine could be ready by September, claims Oxford professor; "80% Confident It Works"

MSN ^ | 04/11/2020 | Zara Whelan

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I’m fully aware of the chequered history of vaccines & I remember that particular debacle well. It goes to show the need for proper double-blind clinical trials. They rushed the Swine flu vaccine out the door, without proper testing. No argument from me — that was a mistake. That history is part of the reason, to the chagrin of many here, I’ve written several posts on the importance of doing clinical trials on the effectiveness of HCQ & Zn (in parallel with giving those drugs to any infected person who wants them).

I left all that out in my posts; in the interest of brevity. In this case, the Professor had reached an 80% confidence in the vaccine to date, in the context of the further testing he intended to do (one assumes, with the goal of reaching 100% confidence). I suppose I could have included something like: “assuming, for the sake of this conversation, that the vaccine will ultimately be ‘proven’ safe and effective”.

When, or if, a vaccine is developed, I’ll take it — unless I think it was rushed out the door for reasons of political expediency. That doesn’t mean that I believe all vaccines are safe. It always comes down to a balance of risks — the risk of a bad vaccine on one side, the risk of dying of the Wuhan virus on the other.