Poll of the Day > is there a vaccine yet?

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im out

There will be treatment before an effective vaccine. Theres not nearly as much money in the cure as their is in the medicine.

Thats where the money is. Sick people coming back.

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Almost nobody is working on a treatment while numerous companies are working on vaccines.

The only 'approved' vaccine is the Russian one that skipped phase 3 trials. There are a number of vaccines that are in various levels of progress through phase 3 trials.

https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker

Maybe early next year we'll have one.

We already flattened the curve and in most places hospitals aren't overloaded unless they're just now experiencing their outbreak.

Now we're just protecting the people most likely to die.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Almost nobody is working on a treatment while numerous companies are working on vaccines.

The only 'approved' vaccine is the Russian one that skipped phase 3 trials. There are a number of vaccines that are in various levels of progress through phase 3 trials.

https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker

Uh, what do you think they do when people go to the hospital? Do you think they dont give them treatment? You think hospitals and research facilities arent constantly researching drugs currently available that lessen symptoms? You think they arent using some of those existing medications to develop a new med that would be more effective?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-drugs-treatments.html

I have absolutely no clue where you get the idea that nobody is working on treatment.

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