Here's how we'll know when a COVID-19 vaccine is ready (NatGeo)

[IcyPeas]

PRIVATE DAVID LEWIS was hiking with his platoon through the snow, despite feeling unwell from the flu. It was January 1976, and the 19-year-old Lewis was stationed in New Jersey’s Fort Dix, where about 230 other soldiers ultimately fell ill. But Lewis, who collapsed 13 miles into the training hike and succumbed soon afterward, was the only one to die. His passing sent the United States into panic mode.

The strain collected at Fort Dix appeared similar to the one behind the 1918 flu pandemic, and this connection made it big news. By the 1970s, high-risk groups were being urged to get flu shots—so the government immediately sought to tailor the vaccine against the Fort Dix strain, hoping 80 percent of the population would take it.

What followed was a debacle. The hastily-developed vaccine was linked to more than 500 cases of paralysis, and 25 people died from it. Soon after news of the Fort Dix outbreak first broke, half of the general public had voiced their intentions to get immunized. But as events unfolded, only 22 percent of the U.S. population ended up getting the vaccine by year’s end.

Now, as COVID-19 sweeps across the world and more than 140 vaccines are in the works to protect against it, the question is: How will we know when one is good enough and safe enough to counsel people to take it?

read more at article link.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/how-we-will-know-when-coronavirus-vaccine-is-ready-cvd/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20200701&rid=D0F45E65ABBD29D75EB895CFFCA44025

[dawg day]

1. I remember that 1976 vaccine. It was two shots-

I didn't feel good after the first shot, and delayed getting the second, and by that time, it was known that there was a bad side effect (Guillaume-Barre?). So I never go the second.
Lots of people have been biased against the flu shot ever since, even though this particular flu shot wasn't used again (I don't think), and flu shots since have had pretty safe.

That's a problem-- if an early unproven vaccine causes damage, it will give all other Covid vaccines a bad reputation, decreasing the willingness of people to get it. It's taken decades to get the acceptance of the flu shot up to 45%.

[BannonsLiver]

2. When-if there is a vaccine this will be the only country in the world that fucks it up

Between the anti science loons, the people who say it’s a hoax and batshit crazy anti vaxers we are hopeless.

Good article, though.

[abqtommy]

3. How about we test any new vaccine on tRUMP, his aides and enablers? If they live through it

then the rest of us can go for it...

[IcyPeas]

7. No, it has to be tested on human beings.

[obamanut2012]

8. lol!

[Turbineguy]

4. If trump thinks it's good

it's not.

[DBoon]

5. It is ready when an advanced country with an independent health agency approves it

Meaning the EU, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Canada also approve it, it is likely effective and safe

I no longer consider the USA an advanced country with an independent health agency.

[genxlib]

6. 1000

The only problem is that Trump has cornered the market on Remdesvir limiting its availability to other countries.

If that vaccine is developed in one of those other places, we better hope they don't give us the middle finger in spite.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. K&R