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And scary side thing to consider.. how many corona-virus vaccines have been developed and deployed to date? Even after SARS (another corona virus), there were
by caseysoftware 6y ago
And scary side thing to consider.. how many corona-virus vaccines have been developed and deployed to date?
Even after SARS (another corona virus), there were a bunch of candidates and some preliminary successes but none actually made it to market because interest (aka funding) subsided. The same over and over again.
As of Jan 1, there were zero. People predicting "we'll have one in a year!" is based on hope and other models, not corona-oriented vaccines. :(
- rootusrootus 6y agoThere are over 100 vaccines in development, several have completed phase 1 trials, and one is actually in production already so it will be available when it completes phase 3. We didn't need vaccines for SARS or MERS because they were both gone pretty quickly and the number of affected individuals was never high enough to warrant completing the expensive testing required to get approval for a vaccine.
- caseysoftware 6y agoYes, exactly. I hope a) those vaccines yield useful results b) quickly enough before people lose interest and funding.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoThey don't lose interest like it's some unstoppable force of nature on a timer. They lose interest if the harm caused by the disease is either low or contained. As long as the world continues to experience significant death, impact on the health care system, and economic damage... there will be interest in a vaccine.
- khuey 6y agoZero in humans. There are vaccines for specific coronaviruses (coronavirii?) in dogs and pigs.