They create a ‘new’ flu jab every year, no one asks if it’s tested properly or whether it’s Pfizer or AZ or TioxideOne of the fears I hear quite often is "how did they possibly produce it so quickly?".
My thoughts on this are that 95% of the work was done on the day they started researching the vaccine.
I don't mean that it was part of some conspiracy, or that someone was already working on a vaccine to a biological weapon they had also created.
No.
We know loads about viruses and vaccines already. We have been studying them for decades. Coronavirus is not some alien species, completely different to anything we've ever seen before. We did not need to build a virus from ground zero; we simply had to adapt our wealth of existing knowledge to the particulars of the new virus.
This is a gross misuse of the word "simply" I know. I don't want anyone turning rounds and saying "why didn't they get it done sooner, then? It is still highly complex work. And of course the 95% figure is entirely arbitrary. My point remains the same: it's a new virus, but it's not entirely different from those for which we previous had vaccines.
In many ways, that's probably about right.My thoughts on this are that 95% of the work was done on the day they started researching the vaccine.
Not sure if it'll help, but you might like to mention to him that:My mate won't get vaccinated. He isn't one that thinks it's a plot or something to help Bill Gates. He worries that as it hasn't been tested for the usual amount of time we don't know the long term effects.
I asked him what he was worried about most. He thought for a while and said "they don't know how it will effect my fertility " His youngest child of 3 children is 40.
He's 66 .
Of all the vaccines we use, in infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, none of them have any long-term effects," Schaffner said.
"No vaccine has shown side effects 2 to 5 years later. That doesn't exist because there's no biological reason for it."
While these results showed statistically significant increases in all sperm parameters, the magnitude of change is within normal individual variation and may be influenced by regression to the mean.
Yeah, exactly. In very layman’s terms it’s just the SARS vaccine tweaked a bit, they’re the same virus more or less.One of the fears I hear quite often is "how did they possibly produce it so quickly?".
My thoughts on this are that 95% of the work was done on the day they started researching the vaccine.
I don't mean that it was part of some conspiracy, or that someone was already working on a vaccine to a biological weapon they had also created.
No.
We know loads about viruses and vaccines already. We have been studying them for decades. Coronavirus is not some alien species, completely different to anything we've ever seen before. We did not need to build a virus from ground zero; we simply had to adapt our wealth of existing knowledge to the particulars of the new virus.
This is a gross misuse of the word "simply" I know. I don't want anyone turning rounds and saying "why didn't they get it done sooner, then? It is still highly complex work. And of course the 95% figure is entirely arbitrary. My point remains the same: it's a new virus, but it's not entirely different from those for which we previous had vaccines.
Well, some of the vaccines are based on a previous SARS candidate vaccine (some of the Chinese ones, for instance) but the Oxford-AstraZeneca product is essentially a modified version of their MERS vaccine - which was already undergoing human trials in Saudi Arabia even before CoVid-19 came along.Yeah, exactly. In very layman’s terms it’s just the SARS vaccine tweaked a bit, they’re the same virus more or less.
I saw a programme (can't remember the name) but detailed much of what was posted in the videos and links above.Medicine development is a long drawn out bureaucratic process, however in the case of a worldwide pandemic a lot of this paper pushing was dealt with on a priority basis,
In fact, it was pointed out in one article I read that previously, the normal minimum time between submitting each clinical trial phase for approval, and receiving said approval, was six months, as was the time between submitting each trial phase's results for review, and the regulatory authority starting their review. Even after the reviews started, they would often proceed at a leisurely pace, while working on other matters at the same time.One thing they did mention as you pointed out, was that in normal times they do the trial wait for results and do paper work, and then move on to next phase when all is completed. During the pandemic it was decided that once they had done that phase of the trial, providing it was judged safe and had results coming in as expected that they started the next phase in order to speed up the process. Don't remember exactly but this saved a lot of time in getting this rolled out