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2020-04-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

Here's Why A Coronavirus Vaccine Might Not Happen Within 18 Months

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Posted by Iblis 2020-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 OMG! We're all gonna die!

But don't worry - it'll be Trump's fault.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-19 00:53|| 2020-04-19 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the good things from coronavirus, we'll have new, rapid, methodology of creating vaccines.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-19 03:56|| 2020-04-19 03:56|| Front Page Top

#3 p.s. I understood that upper respiratory tract infection is the last stage of the serious form.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-19 03:59|| 2020-04-19 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 OMG! We're all gonna die!

Net Neutrality repeal killed me already, and then the Trump tax cuts finished me off!

Posted by Raj 2020-04-19 06:25|| 2020-04-19 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 The people who laugh and rub their hands together when one of Trump's immigration orders is overturned by judicial fiat better get ready for what happens in the courts when a "mandatory" vaccine arrives.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 08:25|| 2020-04-19 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Jumping right ahead here, since it won't be possible to vaccinate 300+ million people all at once, it's going to be interesting to see who gets the vaccine first. Surely our senior civil servants will be willing to go last so that more vulnerable populations can go first. Then again, maybe not.

Posted by Matt 2020-04-19 10:13|| 2020-04-19 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 You want to be first to get it? I don't. What will they do, set up internment camps? Bring it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 10:25|| 2020-04-19 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 "It's a bit like trying to get a vaccine to
kill a virus on the surface of your skin."

Bad comparison. The upper layer of the human skin consists of dead cells.

Some questions:

The flu is initially a respiratory tract infection. How do flu vaccines overcome the problem stated in in the article?

The China virus sometimes affects the kidneys, the brain and the gastrointestinal tract.

If a vaccine couldn't prevent the upper respiratory tract infection that is similar to the common cold but protect against complications affecting the inner organs wouldn't that be worthwhile as a stopgap measure?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-04-19 15:26|| 2020-04-19 15:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Could put the question another way Elmerert, are 60 or so companies around the world working on a vaccine are all idiots?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-19 15:32|| 2020-04-19 15:32|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Because they don't make any money if vaccine doesn't work and developing one costs quite a lot.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-19 15:33|| 2020-04-19 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't care when it comes out, I'm not taking it.

Posted by 49 pan 2020-04-19 16:29|| 2020-04-19 16:29|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't blame you.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-19 16:30|| 2020-04-19 16:30|| Front Page Top

#13 /\ I don't care when it comes out, I'm not taking it.

Nor will I, but for legal purposes.... I'll be adding it to my old yellow 731 (shot record). Morgan & Morgan will need something to add me to the action.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-19 16:34|| 2020-04-19 16:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Boaters participated in a parade in support of the president over the weekend in the Hillsboro Beach Intracoastal waterway, located about 30 miles south of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-19 16:47|| 2020-04-19 16:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Besoeker, a parade like that would be illegal right now in San Diego. Surfing, swimming and recreational boating is prohibited in public waters all up and down the coast.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-19 17:02|| 2020-04-19 17:02|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ Which makes no sense. Typical overreach by Sheriff Bill "FBI" Gore

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-19 17:16|| 2020-04-19 17:16|| Front Page Top

#17 At this point there are bug worshippers. The bug is omnipotent, you must comply your life to the bug. Sad what people latch onto when they see nothing bigger than themselves.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-19 17:54|| 2020-04-19 17:54|| Front Page Top

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