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"Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine." That makes a lot of sense for a vaccine against, say, c
by Causality1 7y ago
"Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine."
That makes a lot of sense for a vaccine against, say, chickenpox, or anything else that kills a hundred or a thousand people a year. For something that, at a 3% fatality rate, is about to kill nine million people in this country alone, it's suicidally slow.
- gnulinux 7y agoWhat's the alternative? Let it pass without sufficient test and possibly kill some people?
- Causality1 7y agoIf you can prove it will save more people than it will kill, yes. That's difficult when you have to prove a safety margin of 99.9%. Proving a safety margin of 97% is much faster.
- bluGill 7y agoYou say that until the vaccine is given to everybody and turns out to cause lung failure a year latter in 10% of the people who go it - thus killing 30 million people in this country alone. (adverse reaction above completely made up)
- radu_floricica 7y agoI don't think we'll give the vaccine to everybody. Well, a few years from now probably, but for this particular pandemic we'll target vulnerable populations (elderly and sick) and professions at risk (like health care).