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A Coronavirus Vaccine Is Coming, and It Will Work
- onetimemanytime 6y agoCan't vouch for the science in the post, but he did an excellent job describing it to non-scientists.
- vikramkr 6y agoI'll vouch for it. This is one of the best layperson's explanations I've seen. Very clear description of the risks posed by segmented genomes vs not etc.
- devy 6y agoYep, the author Peter Kolchinsky has a PhD degree in Virology from Harvard University. https://peterkolchinsky.com/bio https://peterkolchinsky.com/bio
- tmaly 6y agoImagine if we improved our vaccine capability to generate a new vaccine in less than a year? That would be something amazing if that emerged from all of this.
- jamesgeck0 6y agoIsn't most of the delay due to the necessity of running human trials? That's the part that's difficult to speed up.
- nasmorn 6y agoRemember there was a vaccine candidate for SARS. It was not further developed for financial reasons. In a different world we could have started into this crisis with a working vaccine delivery system for corona viruses. That had been clinically tested already, maybe us a massive head start like we have on the seasonal flu every year.
- codyswann 6y agoPeter runs the investment firm RA Capital Management, which could stand to make a pretty penny with the introduction of an effective vaccine. Not saying he's wrong, but he may have a conflict of interest here.
- devy 6y agoYes, but I believe his intention in writing this article is to explain the science behind why there will be highly likely a working vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 virus, rather than giving specific companies in his VC portfolio who make vaccines a PR boost.
- suthakamal 6y agoWhat's the actual evidence presented here? He explains the problem space and technology, but that's not the same as evidence that we're certain a vaccine will work for SARS-CoV-2
- kolinko 6y agoI think the main point of the article is to debunk the claim that coronavirus is flu-like in the way it mutates.
- tinus_hn 6y agoGreat but if the vaccine takes a year before it can be used it’s too little too late. You can’t keep these lockdowns up for a year so they’ll have to be lifted and then everyone will get infected and either die or become immune anyway.
- DarthGhandi 6y ago> We’re now inventing new vaccines from scratch and could plausibly go from nothing to a marketed vaccine in about a year. The fastest vaccine development timeline to market in human history was for Ebola. That took 5 years. A Zika vaccine was started in 2015 and still has candidates in phase III trials. Why is everyone so optimistic in this case?