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The slow part is the safety testing right? If we had a robust enough theory of vaccines safety we could reduce that. How are the yearly flu shots tested anyway?
by im3w1l 5y ago
The slow part is the safety testing right? If we had a robust enough theory of vaccines safety we could reduce that. How are the yearly flu shots tested anyway? Now, I would not take such a HIV shot. But for high risk groups, think promiscious homosexuals, it may eventually be worth it.
- f6v 5y agoIf we had robust enough theory of vaccine testing it wouldn’t matter what kind of vaccine you develop, right?
- im3w1l 5y agoMaybe, maybe not? Mrna vaccines are very customizable so they could be specifically engineered to avoid known safety issues for example.
- lobocinza 5y agoI'm not from a bio-science area but AFAIK mRNA vaccines are robust. 1. The same mechanism of deliver is used so it's already tested and know to be safe/effective. 2. It replicates the same protein(s) found on the virus. So it will not due more damage than getting the virus and it will have a high probability of being effective.
- rzz3 5y agoIf we can do it this fast and this safely for COVID, we should do the same for this disease.
- grayfaced 5y agoEfficacy trials are quick for a disease with 100k infections a day. It's much slower for something that has that many cases a year. It's much harder to tell a statistical difference from noise when you're talking minuscule cases in trial groups.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The slow part is the safety testing right? No, the slow part is the efficacy testing.