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> For everyone else, we should have a vaccine in the next 2-3 months. This is a naive question, but to my knowledge there has never been a widely successful an
by cco 6y ago
> For everyone else, we should have a vaccine in the next 2-3 months.
This is a naive question, but to my knowledge there has never been a widely successful and safe vaccine developed for a coronavirus, am I wrong? People have been talking vaccine, but I've always thought that coronavirus, i.e. common cold family, has been nearly impossible to nail down with a vaccine.
You seem a lot more confident so I must be in the wrong here.
- cycomanic 6y agoAFAIK there has never been much of an effort, because it is not a high priority vaccine. Based that all vaccinations can have a side effect, why would you develop a vaccine for it. And for the other SARS I suspect they were to quickly contained by other means to warrant development of a vaccine.
- usrusr 6y agoVaccinating away a single cause of common cold out of many causes would seem almost pointless. I'd take it as a given that lack of seriously trying has been playing a major role in that lack of success.
- vibrio 6y agoI think this is an economic barrier more than a scientific one (not that the science is trivial). MERS is too sporadic. SARS burnt out to quickly to substantially test anything clinically, and if you look at the scientifc literature, interest in SARS dropped pretty quickly. I’m general neither industry or investors or government funding has that much interest in Infectious disease (vs cancer for instance). Pandemic preparedness was a horrible business plan.
- auspex 6y agoAlso we have a coronavirus vaccine for pets and livestock that you can buy today.