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> there's no vaccine against any other coronavirus, and it's not for the lack of trying. It wasn't economical to develop those. So far, coronaviruses were resp

> there's no vaccine against any other coronavirus, and it's not for the lack of trying. It wasn't economical to develop those. So far, coronaviruses were responsible for either common colds (small impact) or MERS/SARS (which were quickly contained to their region). We're now facing one with a global scale, and high impact (to society & the economy). Governments will pay for those vaccines to be developed, deployed and used. And if it isn't as effective and needs to be reapplied every X years, so much more economical incentive to develop a vaccine.

m0zg 6y ago
> It wasn't economical to develop those. It was, if you run the numbers. There's over a billion of cases of common cold in the US alone every year, people have it 3-6 times a year, every year. The economic loss is insane. If you want to target just the coronaviruses for starters, 20% of common cold is caused by them. People with comorbidities and weak immune systems die from common cold too. And yet we don't have a vaccine. Nor do we have a vaccine against HIV for example. Vaccines are hard to do for some things, and C19 could easily be one of such things. What I find especially pernicious is that people don't realize that it's _not going away_, ever. It's going to be seasonal now.