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MissNancyPryor

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Vaccine trial started yesterday, in record time
« on: March 17, 2020, 12:22:51 PM »

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-investigational-vaccine-covid-19-begins

First shots administered in Seattle yesterday, much faster than expected.  Here we go.

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Re: Vaccine trial started yesterday, in record time
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2020, 12:33:57 PM »
More realistic understanding and explanation of the vaccine trials for laypeople:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/safety-test-of-first-coronavirus-vaccine-starts-in-seattle-area/

...there are still some significant biological and chemical hurdles involved with the mRNA vaccine approach that's never really been effectively overcome yet. We shall see.

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Re: Vaccine trial started yesterday, in record time
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2020, 07:03:53 PM »
Hopefully in another year and a half, there will be a vaccine that works, if we even need it by that time.  I think someone said the coronavirus would just magically disappear.

 

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