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"I don't think it's ever been done at an industrial scale in 18 months," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar focused on emerging infectious disease at the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. "Vaccine development is usually measured in years, not months." Vaccine trials typically start with testing in animals before launching into a three-phase process. The first phase involves injecting the vaccine into a small group of people to assess safety and monitor their immune response. The second ramps up the number of people -- often into the hundreds, and often including more members of at-risk groups -- for a randomized trial. If the results are promising, the trial moves to phase-three test for efficacy and safety with thousands or tens of thousands of people, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Volunteers in each phase need to be monitored for safety, Erbelding said. "Usually, you want to follow their immune response for at least a year," she said.
Dr. Emily Erbelding, an infectious disease expert at NIAID -- which is part of the National Institutes of Health -- said the typical vaccine takes between eight and 10 years to develop. While she is careful not to contradict her boss's timeline -- although she did say "18 months would be about as fast as I think we can go" -- she acknowledged that the accelerated pace will involve "not looking at all the data
Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid
Otherwise, vaccines have had to go through the entire clinical trial process and FDA approval process, which can take months or years. When the vaccine making process has been rushed, there have been bad outcomes
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: xuenchen
Yea, and Fauci and Co were neck deep in what was going on at the Wuhan lab...
originally posted by: panoz77
Actually, the COVID shot is NOT a vaccine at all.
I feel it is a personal decision to take the shot. I will not be taking it, risk benefit analysis.
I believe I already had COVID back in December of 2019. I was over it in about 2 weeks. It is no more fatal to healthy individuals than any multitude of cold or flu viruses. I have much better chance of dying from any number of other factors than COVID. Car accident, hit by a falling piano, falling into a wood chipper, being eaten by a shark, a tree falling on me, being struck by lightening or a meteor......You get my point.
originally posted by: SeektoUnderstand
a reply to: Blue Shift
Is that sarcasm?
I’m just making an observation; from the stance of, what the actual f### is going on....?
Policies and rhetoric aside..... what is going on? Lol
originally posted by: SeektoUnderstand
Peoples attention span and memory in a 24hr news world is the real issue..... can’t remember what “experts” said a couple months ago...
Channel 4's John Snow reports on the Council of Europe's investigation into the manufactured swine flu hoax. The former Chair of the Sub-committee on Health of the Parliamentary Assembly Dr Wolfgang Wodarg had accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of lowering the definition of a pandemic in order for the pharmaceutical companies and their share holders to rake in massive at the expense of tax payers in targeted countries.