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Remember when the New York Times tried to tell us a vaccine could take much longer than expected? Scroll down to "Assume We Already Understand the Coronavirus"
by maxharris 6y ago
Remember when the New York Times tried to tell us a vaccine could take much longer than expected? Scroll down to "Assume We Already Understand the Coronavirus" and check "Start trials early" and "Don't wait for academic research" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-covid-vaccine.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coron...
- person_of_color 6y agoUh, if you keep taking shortcuts (like we did), then it shortens it to Feb 21.
- maxharris 6y agoWhich proves the value of allowing innovation. When we put in too many regulations, we kill many more people than we save.
- atonse 6y agoEven the most experienced people told us it'll take 18-24 months. This kind of progress is unprecedented and frankly quite amazing.
- symlinkk 6y agoIt’s almost too good to be true isn’t it?
- bewaretheirs 6y agoModerna finalized the "code" for the vaccine on January 13th, 2020, had synthesized the first clinical batch on February 7th, shipped it to the NIH on the 24th, and it was first administered to a human (in phase 1 trial) on March 16th. https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-against-covid-19 https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-ag...
- maxharris 6y agoYes! On November 22, the New York Times published a fascinating account of the race to produce a coronavirus vaccine. The Times report included a number of interesting facts, but one really grabbed my attention: It turns out that the Moderna vaccine, which was just shown to be 95 percent effective, was actually developed by the company in just two days in January 2020. That’s right, they developed the vaccine in two days in January, but then needed to spend the following ten months performing tests in order to meet the FDA’s standards for vaccine safety and efficacy. During those ten months, 1.3 million people, including a quarter million Americans, have died from the coronavirus. From https://news.yahoo.com/release-vaccine-113037217.html https://news.yahoo.com/release-vaccine-113037217.html
- krimpenrik 6y agoI always cringe when I see this. Of those 1.3 million, a lot of people died with corona, not from corona.
- andyst 6y agoYou're misinterpreting this article by skipping to a certain section, each of the graphs and the options you select combine together.
- root_axis 6y agoSo is your point that medical trials are a waste of time and we should have just started injecting the masses with something developed in two days?