KangAnon wrote on Mar 16
th, 2020 at 9:49am:
Bobby. wrote on Mar 16
th, 2020 at 9:41am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Mar 16
th, 2020 at 6:42am:
Bobby. wrote on Mar 16
th, 2020 at 4:54am:
I don't understand why it will take such a long time to get a vaccine for Covid-19 ?
I've heard 1 year to 18 months.
Every year we get a vaccine available for up to 4 different types of flu.
We are told that it's the flu that was in the Northern hemisphere over their winter
which is often only 3 to 4 months from when we are inoculated.
So why is a Covid-19 vaccine going to take up to 5 times longer?
Because even though the flu mutates we know its basic structure. Additionally we've developed the methodology with the flu to make it that fast.
We don't have either of these thigns for Covid-19
Thanks but I was hoping for a more
technical explanation.
They have to create a strain of the virus that is similar enough to the actual virus that the body will create antibodies for it that will be effective against COVID-19, but at the same time is different enough that it doesn't cause the same sickness to those who take it.
Engineering that right balance and TESTING to the high standards demanded of vaccines is what takes the time.
It's likely they'll have something they can start trialling soon, but that's almost just the beginning. The trial results will go into further refinement, further testing etc and the cycle will continue until those high standards are met (in terms of testing, safety and effectiveness).
You know Bobby, we don’t want a rushed vaccine that could make healthy people ill or die.
I was watching a documentary the other night about the polio injection and how it caused a lot of problems.
The vaccine went awry somewhere along the line and thousands of healthy children ended up crippled with polio!
Such competition be first with a vaccine?
Geezuz, the amount of innocent children suffered saddened me.
And that’s something to go by, no one wants to have a rushed vaccine without proper testing and even then, who knows what it can do in future to your immune system given it time.
Recall thalidomide?
And debendox?
I was given a prescription of debendox for my pregnancy back in 1981, for nausea.
For some reason, even though the vomiting was rife during the early months of pregnancy, I never took debendox.
Then it was banned in the USA for suspected problems that could occur with babies/infants.
Seems nothing is safe unless the passage of time proves it.