Rushing a vaccine can actually make things worse.

[Bleacher Creature]

I posted this before, but am doing it again I light of yesterday's WH announcement.

Link to tweet

We absolutely should turn the race for a vaccine into this generation's moon landing, but that doesn't mean we can just cut whatever corners we'd like, particularly with respect to testing.

[RockRaven]

1. The (understandably) rushed swine flu vaccine in 1976 caused

an increase in Guillain-Barre cases. One cannot responsibly rush a vaccine to make a specific deadline (i.e. Election Day).

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Absolutely! You nailed it. Can you imagine developing a vaccine, and then rump crowing ...

endlessly about it, and thousands get 'vaccinated' w/ the touted vaccination, and then WHAM, an unintended side effect of the vaccine will cause a more virulent virus to emerge, worse than the original strain?

[roamer65]

3. We should be focusing on monoclonal antibodies first.

Get a neutralizing treatment first.

[GeorgeGist]

4. I suspect the Winning vaccine will not come from ...

[DrToast]

5. It's called ADE (Antibody-dependent enhancement)

And that’s one of the things they monitor for during trials.