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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Then they should be able to get a second opinion
and cite that "doctor" for abusing his authority against a Veteran,
Nope. Me neither. And I suspect that we join MILLIONS who will refuse to take any of them.
1st there is no such thing as a highly effective flu vaccine. 2nd there is an article that posted shortly before this talking about effectiveness. 3rd the experts have been saying all along that a vaccine will have limited effectiveness and you will have to a different one every year. All you have to do is pay attention.
You are comparing apples to oranges.
LOL! Dragging me into your losing argument!
Yep - and if it works on the Dems and they become less contagious, it’s a super win-win - anyone doubt that those who are always howling and screaming and weeping and snarling are the actual super=spreaders?
Something like this might give one pause...
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/vaccine-derived-poliovirus-faq.html
Different virus, but how could the eggheads not have anticipated that might happen?
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