3 thoughts on “Developing A Vaccine”

  1. Unfortunately the PJM article doesn’t link the One Day Sooner site: https://1daysooner.org/

    I signed up there a couple weeks ago (and I’m no youngster) and I ask that you all consider doing so as well. Volunteering isn’t committing you to anything but “is only an expression of interest” (though I’d happily participate in such a trial).

    If a challenge trial does start it will likely get its volunteers through a more traditional process, so I see the main purposes of the group to be that of advocacy and of indicating the prevalence of potential volunteers. The more volunteers it has the more visible it will become. Please help.

    And for those who feel strongly about the upcoming November election, what better October Surprise could there be than having one (or more) of the vaccines being produced “at risk” through the administration’s funding approved and widely distributed?

  2. I am not convinced a vaccine will ever be found. Not saying it won’t. But some people talk as if it’s a foregone conclusion.

    1. The sheer number of different methods used for developing the various vaccines is promising, but I agree that it’s very possible no effective vaccine will be found. There is also a middle ground, where a vaccine might give only partial protection by not prevent infection but instead lessening the illness. The Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine when tested in Rhesus monkeys did not prevent infection, but did prevent it from causing pneumonia. Their Phase III human trials have not yet started.

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