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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Serious question:

Once a vaccine is approved, how long to get the worldwide population inoculated?

Of course you would have to start with getting it to healthcare professionals and first line responders first.
 
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Thump said:
Serious question:

Once a vaccine is approved, how long to get the worldwide population inoculated?

Of course you would have to start with getting it to healthcare professionals and first line responders first.
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Depends on intellectual property probably. If everyone is allowed to make it, not long at all. However, if it’s a small biotech that has it, and they are bought out by a single entity, and then one place starts making it, a long time. Plus, you could run into competing vaccines...
 
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Thump said:
Serious question:
Once a vaccine is approved, how long to get the worldwide population inoculated?
Of course you would have to start with getting it to healthcare professionals and first line responders first.
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From what I understand, the firms working on the vaccine have been FORMALLY instructed they must start mass production very early in the testing phases.. I believe before phase II
vs historically, they would START producing AFTER the vaccine has been completely thru all phases and formally approved.
Whether the govt is financially supporting the vaccine testers/producers in building that inventory, especially those that don't 'win' dunno...
but whenever the vaccine is approved, immediate and massive deployment is expected
 
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Serious question:

Once a vaccine is approved, how long to get the worldwide population inoculated?

Of course you would have to start with getting it to healthcare professionals and first line responders first.
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There probably will be multiple vaccines from all over the world. Then production will have to be ramped up to make the vaccines readily available.
 
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AKAK said:
It's not that I don't believe this.... but there's a lot of fog of war stuff out there about people getting reinfected, etc. Thing is, the testing out there sucks balls it seems like.

https://www.latimes.com/world-natio...upply-world-coronavirus-fight-quality-control
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I think we can all rally behind the flag that the testing stinks and that the wizards at places like Pitt will come up with proper testing to rescue our lost world.

The biggest takeaway I get from experienced people is that we are operating in the dark, and will be that way until a year or more from now. Hopefully we can find a cure before then but we just won't understand it that well before Zach Harrison turns pro.
 
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Is this going to be like the flu vaccine? I've never received one and never gotten the flu (knock on wood). My wife and kids always get one, and still get the flu about once every 3-4 years or so.
 
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