Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote...
by ceejayoz on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:35AM
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The analogy is imperfect, but it's imperfect in both directions - we don't have to make 300k planes and fight Nazis, we "just" have to produce a bunch of vaccine and some freezers.
It should be substantially less difficult than winning WWII, which again - we were capable of scaling up industrially to accomplish.
> this is only observed during the initial spread before herd immunity kicks in
When will that be? NYC's new spike is demonstrating even their enormous outbreak didn't generate enough of it.
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote...
by WillPostForFood on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:10AM
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The US has the manufacturing capacity for ships and planes before WW II. Do we have any factories left making refrigerators? Or are we just going to have to order them from China?
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote...
by ceejayoz on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:12AM
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> Or are we just going to have to order them from China?
It's a global pandemic. Order them from anyone who can make them at scale. Coordinate with the WHO to avoid silly bidding wars.
This is by far not the challenge covid19 poses to the world. It wasn't when it was China's local and regional problem, and it is not after it spread out of China and became a pandemic.
Objectively, at most Covid19 causes a slight increase in the global death rate, and this is only observed during the initial spread before herd immunity kicks in. Ww2 killed about 90 million people in 6 years, while covid is bound to have killed about 1.3 million in one year.