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> Vaccines are unlikely to work or be scalable Can you back that up with some kind of science? There are >100 in development and several are done with phase 1
by rootusrootus 7y ago
> Vaccines are unlikely to work or be scalable
Can you back that up with some kind of science? There are >100 in development and several are done with phase 1. Hell, one is already entering production in anticipation of final approval later this year.
Short term, we'll probably rely heavily on plasma.
- walterbell 7y agoZero vaccines in the entire history of coronaviruses. For the well-known reason that the viruses mutate, so a vaccine against seasonal variant A does not work against new variant B.
- rootusrootus 7y agoThis is a common misconception. Viruses mutate, sure, but most do not mutate very quickly or very much. This includes coronaviruses. Influenza, on the other hand, mutates at a prodigious rate in meaningful ways. The reason we don't have vaccines against any coronaviruses is because there aren't very many that infect humans and all of them other than SC2 are so mild it isn't worth spending the effort to eradicate them.
- ekianjo 7y ago> The reason we don't have vaccines against any coronaviruses Coronaviruses affect animals too, and yet we haven't been able to develop vaccines against them. And yes, there are vaccines for many other infections for animals.