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Given the USA's total failure at the presumably easier task of wide-scale testing, the notion that we could manufacture and distribute a novel vaccine in this t
by jberryman 6y ago
Given the USA's total failure at the presumably easier task of wide-scale testing, the notion that we could manufacture and distribute a novel vaccine in this time frame seems completely impossible. Maybe other countries could have success.
- tomp 6y agoHow much of that failure was manufacturing capacity, vs. bureaucracy? IIRC there was a California lab doing some testing that was shut down by the CDC... so manufacturing wasn't the bottleneck (maybe it's now? I don't know)
- strictnein 6y agoThe federal government has already sent billions to vaccine manufacturers to get the ball rolling. It's named "Operation Warp Speed" and the goal is to have 300 million doses of a vaccine by January. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article243775467.html https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article24377546... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fauci-idUSKCN24G2ZY?fbclid=IwAR3QLLtae-iMjrqRHkZd6g68R3j0HhWLm148WTF6qD4VSx3XQ6tbOamMZEM https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fauci-...
- ridewinter 6y agoDon't they know we need the vaccine by Tuesday, November 3rd??