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“ No one I know from this space thought a 2020 vaccine was ever in the cards.” I’m not in science, but friends who had colleagues more involved in biological s
by audiometry 6y ago
“ No one I know from this space thought a 2020 vaccine was ever in the cards.”
I’m not in science, but friends who had colleagues more involved in biological sciences said those fellows were total skeptics that anything like 6-8 months would be possible.
Imagine if this would have happened ten years ago. Think we’d have any prayer for a vaccine? Wouldn’t be surprised if the technology didn’t even exist within some point in the last couple decades.
So in some ways maybe we are ending up “lucky”.
- Ensorceled 6y agoThat was the concensus ... 2021 was possible if we get really lucky and either an existing coronavirus vaccine platform could be repurposed or a RNA vaccine works out. Just to be clear, there was a real risk that a vaccine would turn out to be impossible for this type of virus. It looks like completely dodged that bullet.
- jlokier 6y ago> I’m not in science, but friends who had colleagues more involved in biological sciences said those fellows were total skeptics that anything like 6-8 months would be possible. Yes. I have an academic friend in a high-level biotech research role who said a vaccine wouldn't be possible in this timeframe, that we ultimately could only delay the spread but not save people, so to avoid economic harm on top we should let the virus "run its course" and kill however many it's going to kill. They were wrong.
- djsumdog 6y agoWell this vaccine isn't approved yet, and there are still more testing phases left to go. So they "might be" wrong is more appropriate than "were" wrong. I also have a lot of safety concerns about something developed this quickly.