Posted on 10/16/2020 4:46:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The great race for a COVID-19 vaccine has more than 130 medicines in development, with 40 being tested on humans, of which 10 are in large, phase 3 trials. The U.S. Government has invested about $11 billion in Operation Warp Speed, making advance purchases from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer/BioNTech, Sanofi/GlaxoSmithKline, Novavax and AstraZeneca — betting that at least some will be soon approved by regulators as “safe and effective” vaccines.
No matter your Twitter feed, “vaccines have been one of the greatest public health tools to prevent disease,” as The New York Times explained in January. But as late as May 9 the Times reported that “American officials and pharmaceutical executives have said that a (COVID-19) vaccine remains at least 12 to 18 months away.”
That forecast may prove unduly pessimistic: Good Judgment, a respected forecasting firm, places odds of a vaccine (approved and distributed to at least 25 million Americans by March 31, 2021), at 46%.
(And Pfizer said it would not apply for emergency authorization of its vaccine before mid-November.)
Too fast? Many are terrified that the Food and Drug Administration may hastily authorize injections into hundreds of millions. The FDA and drugmakers are trying to assuage such concerns with enhanced commitments to safety. Nonetheless, fears have been stoked by the President Donald Trump’s infomercial-style endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 remedy, his foolhardy disdain for face masks and campaign rally boasts of a preelection cure.
Yes, politics. But the opposing political push — the demand that new vaccines must be safe at all costs — is itself a dangerous meme, and the strange bedfellow of anti-vaxxer protesters.
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Give vaccine to Democrats first? It is a win, win. If the stuff works then they might be greafull. If the side effects kill a bunch of Democrats everybody else is greatful. /s
Humans deal with risk vs safety every day and have for centuries.
What a bunch of wussies.
Humans deal with risk vs safety every day and have for centuries.
What a bunch of wussies.
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No kidding.
Just don’t make it mandatory, explicitly or not.
No steps in the testing process have been left out, or even rushed.
The years of slack time usually involved in bringing a vaccine to market have been (mostly) eliminated. The clinical testing is continuing, while mass production and preparation is underway. Normally, testing is completed before mass production is started. Several months were saved by this change alone. There is a huge financial risk involved — the mass-produced vaccines will have to be destroyed, if they are not proven safe.
It’s a dramatic demonstration of the project management truism: scope, time, and cost — you only get to control two at a time. By throwing train-loads of money at the problem, the scope is retained, while the timeline has been dramatically reduced.
We have plenty of therapeutics...and they're being used every single day and people are getting better and there are few deaths.
and Cuomo is no longer sending seniors to "the chambers".
Bingo! This is about fear, control, and power. It was initially about safety, but when the governors found how easily the populace could be suckered, they became drunk with power. It’s a big lie and the goalposts keep moving, no team can kick a field goal.
I have relatives that are being denied treatment. The doctor and the V A have told them both, “There Are No Treatments for Covid” if you’re hospitalized MAYBE they can ease your symptoms, but there is NO TREATMENTS AVAILABLE.”
A fake vaccine for a fake virus,and miracles of miracles everyones cured.
Tony Fauci is in the tank for Moderna. They are lagging behind in the race to release a vaccine and he is not putting his toe on the scale. He is sitting on it and pretending that he is just a scientist. He stands to cash in big time, providing that the Moderna vaccine can get out of the gate. Pfizer is rounding the last turn and have several lengths on the second place filly.
Ensure that everyone is free to reject taking it without penalties.
The safest thing to do is just say no.
I intend to balance risk and safety by waiting for at least a year or two to see how everyone else does before considering taking the vaccine myself. I’m retired, and not planning to travel anywhere, so that should work.
And your expertise to make such a definitive statement?
In this case the only thing you need to do is pay attention and use a little common sense. There are multiple reasons not to take these vaccines. Here is a big one. At Best it only has 10% effectiveness.
Dont care
Never going to take it
But what happended to people? So many sheep these days.
On a vaccine that is still studied. You actually have an inside source on the study. Please. you are quoting the influenza vaccine study of earlier today that may or may not be accurate.
You are not only an idiot, you are a liar.
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