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| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 10:59 am EDT 08/19/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:58 am EDT 08/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: by your logic - Teacher64 10:33 am EDT 08/19/21 | |
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| The one good thing that Trump did as president was to authorize by executive order the development of the vaccines at warp speed to begin saving lives. Today's vaccines are so far "experimental". Of course, he knew that at the get-go. Nevertheless, they have been deemed to be safe and they do work. Trump, his family, Giuliani, Chris Christie, and their cronies were among the first to be vaccinated -- along with Tucker Carlson, his wife and kids. They may all be jerks, but they're not fools. Generally, it can take months or even years for the FDA to approve a vaccine. However, when the country is hit with a plague and people are dying by the thousands, a safe "experimental" vaccine is still the best, really the only way to combat the virus. Every indication is that the FDA will be officially approving some, and eventually all, of the vaccines very, very soon. However, it is critically important that everyone get vaccinated right away to stop the spread. Delaying a decision only results in more loss of life. |
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| re: by your logic | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 12:01 pm EDT 08/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: by your logic - BroadwayTonyJ 10:58 am EDT 08/19/21 | |
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| The other thing is, this vaccine didn’t appear overnight, even though it looks like Dr. McCoy mixed it in sick bay to save everyone in 50 minutes before the episode ended. We first encountered coronaviruses in 1930, when a strange respiratory infection wiped out poultry farms in the Midwest. We knew they were something animals could get; I had a cat die of it in a weird presentation that went to her brain. We actually had an early vaccine for canine coronavirus…in 1991. When the virus jumped from bats to humans in 2002 (SARS-1), there was serious potential that it could have gone the way COVID19 did. But because it wasn’t as infectious and with strict quarantine and isolation, it didn’t. The early canine vaccine did show some effect, and the researchers began working on one for SARS, using that and other work on animal coronaviruses. They actually came up with a vaccine that was effective against SARS-1, but lacked the funding for clinical trials, and as the virus had pretty much died out by then, there wasn’t much opportunity to continue. Big Pharma certainly wasn’t going to invest in a vaccine for a virus that wasn’t a threat. But all of that was there when COVID hit. The groundwork was there for the lightning fast creation of the vaccine. Laura |
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