According to Florian Krammer, a vaccine scientist at Mount Sinai, you could do all of this at a cost of about $20 million to $30 million per vaccine and, ideally, would do so for between 50 and 100 different viruses — enough, he says, to functionally cover all the phylogenies that could give rise to pandemic strains in the future...
In a just-published paper in Cell, he suggests it isn’t just that Phase I clinical work and the larger, longer Phase II safety trials which could be done preemptively, entirely before the arrival of new pandemics. Some Phase III efficacy testing, he says, could be done then, as well — especially for existing rather than novel strains. “
If we do all that, he says, the entire timeline could be compressed to as few as three months...three months from the design of the Moderna vaccine was April 13. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html
If we do all that, he says, the entire timeline could be compressed to as few as three months...three months from the design of the Moderna vaccine was April 13. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html
If I am understanding this plan...
It would be to create vaccines worth potentially billions of dollars for viruses that are not yet a problem, in the chance that one day they might become a problem....Is that correct????
Thank goodness the world is comprised of exactly zero scientists who have a profit motive. That could really be dangerous if there were any.