Well what's taken them so long and why do they need aborted babies to do so?
Hugh?
A) It hasn’t taken long at all to produce hundreds of viable vaccine candidates. It’s been just about 7 months since we got the viral genome mapped for SARS-CoV-2.
Meanwhile, it took 61 years after the first US outbreak of polio to get a working vaccine. We’ll have this one done, approved, and at your local CVS in less than 1 year.
B) There are multiple vaccine candidates (such as Novavax’s) which did NOT use fetal stem cells to culture the virus. It’s easier to culture a virus and test with it using fetal stem cells, but it’s not strictly necessary. Also important to note that fetal stem cells are NOT part of the manufacturing process for ANY vaccines. They’re used in R&D only.
And for whatever it’s worth, I completely agree we should NOT be doing that. There are far too many moral and ethical problems with doing it. And it’s not required; just more difficult.
RE: “... why do they need aborted babies to do so?”
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I like to learn something for the time I spend here, so I found an interesting article from 2017.
“The three most reliable sources to date of abundant fetal stem cells are the placenta, amniotic fluid, and umbilical cord blood.
“Samples from amniotic fluid and the placenta are retrieved using the common prenatal diagnostic procedures of amniocentesis...”
“Umbilical cord blood is easily obtained at the time of birth and can be easily preserved in cord blood banks.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/fetal-stem-cell