Posted on 05/16/2020 5:58:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers say is unlikely absent a miracle.
"We're looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before," Trump said Friday during in a Rose Garden event centered on his administration's efforts to fast-track a vaccine.
“Vaccine work is looking VERY promising, before end of year,” Trump tweeted on Thursday.
“I think it’s possible you could see a vaccine in people’s arms next year — by the middle or end of next year. But this is unprecedented, so it’s hard to predict,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Walter Orenstein, a professor at Emory University and the associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center, said a vaccine in less than a year would be “miracle.”
While technically possible, he added, it is unlikely.
“There’s a lot of things that could go wrong,” Orenstein said.
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There will be no vaccine and if there is one, most people aren’t going to take it.
Keep an eye on the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. They are doing test cases now.
It’s called a strawman, and the media has liked doing that for a long time. It’s easier to make up a rediculous argument and misrepresent your opponent than to address or make your own thesis.
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