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Never. No matter what. A corner cutting, fast-paced, blindly approved drug, being pushed through like this, is not going to end well.
Never. Going. To. Take. It.
Budi
(15,325 posts)😷😬
Squinch
(51,044 posts)ecstatic
(32,745 posts)They went wild after twittler said the military will be administering the vaccines.
So I'm not sure who trump's target audience will be for this "warp speed" produced vaccine, which will apparently be using brand new technology in an effort to block a virus that researchers still don't understand.
I'm worried that it'll be mostly people on our side who get used as guinea pigs.
To make an effective vaccine more quickly against never-before-seen, fast-spreading viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, researchers at Vanderbilt and elsewhere are using alternate approaches. In one approach, instead of proteins, a new generation of vaccines, called mRNA vaccines, will carry the molecular instructions to make the protein.
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While there are several promising new approaches, all of these are still experimental. Our best protection against COVID-19 currently remains prevention and containment of the disease. Until we have a good vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, social distancing and vigilance is our best weapon.
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-a-new-type-of-vaccine-using-rna-could-help-defeat-covid-19-133217
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)first batch of the CV vaccine. I'd say fine, line up the first 1000 or so volunteers (there will be thousands of willing volunteers already out there) and go to it.
As sloppy as rump is, as ignorant and afraid to say 'NO' to trump's insistence on his alternate world view facts, those that provide any oversight will be long gone.
I suspect that he'll still try to grift any vaccines to his own personal business(es) and then resell the vaccines to the public at a hefty markup.
Why do you think he keeps Jared Kushner around? So he can secretly seize any vaccines and claim for his own personal business.
sinkingfeeling
(51,480 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)Any vaccine touted by the game show host is not going to come anywhere close to me.
Any vaccine in which a US government agency has had a hand in creating? You got it. No closer than a barge pole.
Any vaccine created as a result of the involvement of a buffoon-appointed person? No closer than 2 barge poles.
I realize that Big Pharma are multi-national companies. And I know tons and tons of drugs are made in India and China, and I'm probably taking some right now.
But - and I know this is crazy - I'm hoping that any vaccine I end up taking will be one developed, approved, and manufactured in Europe. (I don't care if it includes nanobots to track my every movement - i didn't realize Bill Gates was that interested in me - or accelerates the flow of 5g signals in my body, as long as I don't get COVID-19.)