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What is there to research with GoF that could be worth the massive risk? We had a vaccine for COVID in a weekend. Approval and manufacturing where the bottlenec

• Retric 2y ago
  There’s a lot of GoF research on a lot of different diseases with a wide range of goals. One goal for disease likely to cause pandemics is ultimately to create better treatments for those already infected. There’s a long lag between a vaccine being designed and scaling production and distribution to actually protect people. That means there’s going to be a lot of people infected in an outbreak, including many vaccinated people.
  • ajmurmann 2y ago
    Are there any examples of medication that was developed for a disease that came out of GoF where the medication was approved and preventive mass production took place?
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    • Retric 2y ago
      My understanding is success have come more from protocols more than medication. Take antimicrobial resistance, you need to understand how microbes gain resistance by actually creating resistant bacteria/fungi etc before you can develop efficient countermeasures. With COVID there was a lot of confusion around using masks and disinfecting public spaces in the early days. A better model of the disease could have been really useful both in the early days and how people responded to mixed messages.