Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates
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#2Twelve candidates in clinical trials according to the table. That sounds like a lot, but I have no idea how that number compares to other vaccines. Is this a typical number, or is it high/low?
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#3Question: if the virus completely dissapears in a few months, like other SARS variant, should we vaccinate the world population ?
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#4Question: if the virus completely dissapears in a few months, like other SARS variant, should we vaccinate the world population ?
Serious question, how could it disappear? It seems like as long as there are people close enough to infect, it will infect them. There are cases in warm environments. What am I missing?
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#5Question: if the virus completely dissapears in a few months, like other SARS variant, should we vaccinate the world population ?
Obviously not, but why would it do that? It's already spread in a way that none of the other SARS variants have, which invalidates that part of the analogy.
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#6Question: if the virus completely dissapears in a few months, like other SARS variant, should we vaccinate the world population ?
Is there any trend or metric we can monitor for sign of that? Like, average time required in ICU shortening, which may mean virus is weakening?
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#7Question: if the virus completely dissapears in a few months, like other SARS variant, should we vaccinate the world population ?
If it did disappear, sure.
But it won't. Way too many infected all over the globe now, eradication is impossible without a vaccine. Either it will eventually infect the entire world, or we'll vaccinate against it. Those are the only two options at this point.
Even if an entire nation managed to eradicate it via distancing, it would only take a single carrier arriving by any means from another country to initiate a second wave and restart the clock.
Edit: I'm not one to engage in meta, but seriously, what the fuck is with the downvotes? Every word of what I said is casually verifiable with a quick google search and is not at all controversial. There is absolutely no way to eradicate SARS-CoV-2 without global immunity due to its exceptionally high R0 combined with the fact that it's already present all over the globe. The only two ways to achieve global immunity is if everyone gets infected and develops immunity, or everyone is vaccinated. Someone who's hitting downvote, please comment and explain.
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#8Question: if the virus completely dissapears in a few months, like other SARS variant, should we vaccinate the world population ?
Serious question, how could it disappear? It seems like as long as there are people close enough to infect, it will infect them. There are cases in warm environments. What am I missing?
>What am I missing?
delusion
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#9Twelve candidates in clinical trials according to the table. That sounds like a lot, but I have no idea how that number compares to other vaccines. Is this a typical number, or is it high/low?
From my perspective it is quite a number all at once. Usually it is a lot less (one or two candidates, AFAICS).
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#10Question: if the virus completely dissapears in a few months, like other SARS variant, should we vaccinate the world population ?
If it did disappear, sure. But it won't. Way too many infected all over the globe now, eradication is impossible without a vaccine. Either it will eventually infect the entire world, or we'll vaccinate against it. Those are the only two options at this point. Even if an entire nation managed to eradicate it via distancing, it would only take a single carrier arriving by any means from another country to initiate a se…
Third option: we fight it with drugs and we prevent / reduce hospitalizations, and it becomes a disease like every other.