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> COVID-19 vaccine was created after the fact, and it hardly prevented a major global catastrophe. What? It immediately dropped the death rate. How many more
by darkarmani 4y ago
> COVID-19 vaccine was created after the fact, and it hardly prevented a major global catastrophe.
What? It immediately dropped the death rate. How many more millions of lives would it have to have saved to get notice?
- creato 4y agoKnowing about the virus ahead of time wouldn’t help much. By far the most expensive (in time and money) part of a publicly available vaccine is testing it. It is impossible to test a vaccine under any reasonable procedure we have today before the virus is a full blown pandemic. The best case scenario for putting this kind of research into practice is saving two weeks off a months or years long development schedule. It might not even work. Frankly the risk reward trade off here is so laughably bad that I can’t understand why it’s even a debate.
- darkarmani 4y agoAh! I read the parent's comment in a different way, but i see what he was trying to say now. He wasn't saying the vaccine didn't do anything, but that not having it developed before covid19 started wasn't the biggest blocker.