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Originally Posted by mugwump
Looked into it. Total fabrication by the news service. It’s not even in Phase I, it’s in preclinical animals trials only.
CDC is being pretty forthright throughout all this, and they say “12-18 months at best” because there are a lot of doubts about developing an effective vaccine at all. “We can put a man on the moon but we can’t cure the common cold” because the common cold is a coronavirus, and coronaviruses are really, really good at evading and degrading our immune system. Failed CV vaccines they’ve come up with in the past have tended to fade very quickly.
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Glad you caught this
Best case scenario is to use synthetic DNA technology to produce a trial vaccine tested in animals. That would take at least 3 months. Then establishing a satisfactory manufacturing process with QC standards would require another 3 months. Conduct of the IND enabling safety and toxicology would require another 6 months. That's 12 months to the first-in-human clinical trials. Therefore we are looking at 12-18 months for a commercial vaccine.
BTW whenever you read about a vaccine being "discovered" disregard. Vaccines are not "discovered"
