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Still no vaccine for SARS 18 years later, what makes you think we'll have a vaccine for this?
by chucknthem 7y ago
Still no vaccine for SARS 18 years later, what makes you think we'll have a vaccine for this?
- nate_meurer 7y agoSARS hasn't been seen in 15 years. Exactly whom did you expect would spend the time and money to develop a vaccine for it?
- sitkack 7y agoMaybe we should develop responses to pathogens that have the ability to wipe humanity off the galaxy. Given how close SARS and SARS-CoV-2 is, maybe the SARS vaccine could be applied to the current case.
- nate_meurer 7y agoI think that's likely, but it's understandably difficult to convince anyone to spend a few hundred million dollars to develop vaccine that might never be used.
- sitkack 7y agoSeems like a pretty good deal right now. Our economic system has structural pathologies that make it extremely difficult to meaningfully organize whole populations.
- nate_meurer 7y agoYeah, ok, I think I agree with this. I have to believe that a sustained effort to develop coronavirus vaccines would bear fruit, whether actual vaccines or merely processes and knowledge, even if the particular motivating disease was no longer in circulation.
- tasuki 7y ago> Maybe we should develop responses to pathogens that have the ability to wipe humanity off the galaxy. Not a bad idea, but isn't that a near-infinite set?