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Rampage2K-
I have a friend who is an ER doctor in Buffalo and here is what she said about the vaccines yesterday in a conversation

“The CDC had a meeting yesterday and said best case Scenario is maybe 14 months. But the fastest vaccine to ever make it to market has been 4 years. We don’t even know if you can develop long-term natural immunity to this virus. If you can’t develop natural immunity then you can’t have a vaccine. It doesn’t work that way. This is a brand new virus and they honestly just don’t know much about it at all. People holding out for a vaccine are nuts. So that was just yesterday. You have to develop one that shows promise then human trials and observation and then mass marketing. That doesn’t happen quickly.

Science isn’t fast. Like maybe Who knows maybe next year or two....Maybe never if it changes too quickly.

Herd immunity is really our only shot. So healthy young people need to get it. Ugh just new world“

There are specific reasons a vaccine would not work and we do not have any reason to believe covid-19 fits that description.

1. Some things you can't develop vaccines for because they are too many strains. With the cold for example it's nearly 200 different strains.

2. Some things you can't develop vaccines for because those virus are not affected by antibodies the way others are--that's true of HIV for example. As one medical guy puts it, "in HIV, the virus does everything in its power to hide the target, so we’re dealing with a well-adapted adversary that actively avoids neutralization." Antibodies don't matter, the HIV virus eludes them.

Neither thing is true of covid-19 that we know of. (And btw there are some vaccines that work against multiple strains...just not nearly 200, as with the cold. I've read about vaccines that can take out up to 23 strains...and no one is saying there are that many strains of covid-19.)

If on the other hand we find out that you can only develop temporary natural immunity from covid-19, then, the solution for that is just having annual shots.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/08/2020 08:43PM by zn.