Scientists vs politicians: the reality check for 'warp speed' vaccine research

[swag]

https://www.ft.com/content/1467b1da-28a5-47d4-a5e2-a6f4b68484c3?fbclid=IwAR3o2r7LNcKIsCFH3-SH_0OWyfVIaSnilklUVbwkVAt0YJtofkgDvsssRJ4

Hannah Kuchler in New York MAY 22 2020

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Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist for the World Health Organization, believes an optimistic scenario is a vaccine produced in the “tens of millions” next year, which would be mainly distributed to healthcare workers, and far larger volumes in 2022. To inoculate the world and defeat Covid-19 could take four to five years, she says.

We have no “crystal ball” to tell the future, she told the Financial Times. “It depends how the virus behaves: whether it mutates, whether it becomes more or less virulent, more or less transmittable.”

Peter Hotez, a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who is developing a vaccine, says the US president sees vaccines as a “manufacturing problem”, like making enough ventilators or tests.

“Manufacturing is not the hurdle. It’s taking the time to collect enough efficacy and safety data,” he says. “The Operation Warp Speed language coming out of the White House and biotechs and pharma companies [saying] that they will have a vaccine by the fall — or in weeks or days — does so much damage.”


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https://www.ft.com/content/1467b1da-28a5-47d4-a5e2-a6f4b68484c3?fbclid=IwAR3o2r7LNcKIsCFH3-SH_0OWyfVIaSnilklUVbwkVAt0YJtofkgDvsssRJ4

[Walleye]

1. Appropriate. Warp speed is science fiction.

[qazplm135]

3. Ok

But what if we used transporters to teleport the virus out?

[Walleye]

4. Brilliant!

[raccoon]

5. I'd rather we transport out the Dotard and his enablers. Nt

[live love laugh]

6. And what if we also capture sunbeam molecules

and add them and chlorine to the transport operation?

[Grokenstein]

2. Everything out of Trump House is baloney.

"Warp speed" is just more of the same casually-fabulist garbage you come to expect from the clownish con-man who assured us that "fifteen cases" would quickly slip to zero.