Re:Making Vaccine
by matthew_stone on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:36PM
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> I’d have directed an institute to run a report on theoretic safety and then a trial on volunteers.
Commonly known as “pre-clinical development” and “clinical trials”
Except you can skip steps because volunteers have already tested the vaccine for safety and at the end of the story there’s a vaccine that you can make as much as you want of. Instead of a vaccine controlled by a single company that, surprise surprise, has production issues that according to them surely can’t be overcome by using production capacity at other facilities.
Reality shows that’s not always true, witness for instance the death of the irreplaceable technologies Internet Explorer and Flash.
Argue all you want but these vaccines have been taken by hundreds of people with no ill effect already. So for the people in the article the risks are not worse than the people in the trials for the commercial vaccines.
I don’t know about the scarcity of the ingredients in this vaccine but if I was in government I’d have directed an institute to run a report on theoretic safety and then a trial on volunteers. That’s a better option than locking up the population for over a year while we wait for the commercial vaccines.