Posted on 04/12/2020 6:27:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When will we have a Covid-19 vaccine? Public-facing scientists such as the UK’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, and his US counterpart, Anthony Fauci, keep repeating that it won’t be before 12 to 18 months. But other voices – including some of those in the race to create a vaccine themselves – have suggested that it could be as early as June. Who is right?
The former, probably, but it’s complicated because this pandemic is forcing change at almost every step in the process by which a new vaccine arrives at a needle near us.
“It really depends on what you mean by ‘having a vaccine’,” says Marian Wentworth, president and CEO of Management Sciences for Health, a Massachusetts-based global not-for-profit organisation that seeks to build resilient health systems, and a long-time observer of vaccine development. “If you mean one that can be used in a mass vaccination campaign, allowing us all to get on with our lives, then 12 to 18 months is probably right.”
But in terms of an experimental vaccine that is deemed safe and effective enough to be rolled out in a more limited way – to high-risk groups such as health workers, say – that could be ready within weeks or months, under emergency rules developed by drug regulatory agencies and the World Health Organization in the context of the recent Ebola epidemics in Africa.
When the University of Oxford’s Adrian Hill told the Guardian that his group’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate could be ready by the summer, it was this kind of readiness to which he was probably referring.
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i will never take one. phruck gates, phruck fauxci and the globalists tyrants
Better question is who will take the Corona vaccine!!! Take it at your own risk!!
No need for one unless you’re Bill Gates/big Pharma.
you mean MANDATORY vaccine aka our salvation?
In 1996, Fauci promised a vaccine for HIV. Still no vaccine.
Is a vaccine needed if there is a readily available effective treatment?
I think the Trump Pill will be shown, scientifically, to prevent Corona in most people.
No need for a vaccine to go on the market. ‘Unproven’.
Yeah, when will the vaccine be ready? The vaccine made in a rush by medical expert eugenics duo Bill and Merlinda Gates. I’m not an anti-vax person, but you need a screw loose to be lining up for this one.
RE: Is a vaccine needed if there is a readily available effective treatment?
A treatment is different from something that will prevent you from being infected.
Those estimates might be right. A lot goes into testing a vaccine.
They say this thing is a VIRUS. We STILL do NOT have a flu virus vaccine. “Flu shots” are NOT vaccines—people still get the flu after taking them. This insane response in our nation is NOT about the danger of a flu-like virus. It’s about CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE.
Who cares, I won’t get it.
“The efficacy of the 2019-2020 influenza vaccine is ~43% - and that’s after we’ve been making influenza viruses for years and years.”
Hasn’t Dr. Faucci been working an AIDS vaccine for over two decades with nothing to show for the billions spent? $2.5 billion in 2019 alone for AIDS research.
There’s no guarantees. So let’s assume that it’s not happening.
Viruses mutate constantly. There will always be another virus.
I get a flu shot every year but will NOT be taking this. Way too rushed and experimental.
Probably never.
However it is clearly in the best interests of Big Pharma and various totalitarian-minded people in Government to restrict access to effective antiviral medications for as long as possible.
This works out poorly for everybody else.
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