Ask HN: How quickly do you plan to get the vaccine once available?

Re:Ask HN: How quickly do you plan to get the vaccine once a... by voisin on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:32PM (#25256379)

I read that most vaccines take 5-7 years to get approved. This one is less than a year. I worry that corners have been cut. Is that irrational?

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Re:Ask HN: How quickly do you plan to get the vaccine once a... by wh-uws on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:59PM (#25259579)

I see this take a lot.

I encourage people to research this more deeply i.e.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coron...

To my understanding the things that are being fast tracked are all the bureaucratic red tape and but covering stuff.

Not the actual science.

If any of the science was rushed we could have had the vaccines as early as this summer.

But a phase 3 human trail takes 8 months. There is just absolutely no way to rush that part as constructed

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Re:Ask HN: How quickly do you plan to get the vaccine once a... by st1x7 on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:39PM (#25256458)

It's not irrational at all but it also doesn't answer my question. Worrying comes from uncertainty. If you had evidence (in either direction), your uncertainty would go down and you would either not worry as much or you would have a good reason to think that the vaccine might be unsafe.

So my question is what evidence do we have that corners have been cut? Are you basing all of this only on the reduced time to produce the vaccine?

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Re:Ask HN: How quickly do you plan to get the vaccine once a... by chrledntsurf on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:25PM (#25262292)

yes

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