MerelysSoul
Warning: Tends to irreverent in most situations.
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I see... That is bad. There are reasons why animal testings are a thing. To better understand the effects of whatever medicine is being made. This is going to turn out horrible before a 'silver bullet' is found. Especially with a virus like this one... One mistake can easily make things even more dangerous.Nothing special about it at all... the vaccine is produced exactly the same way as every other anti-flu vaccine.
The only thing is, because the 2003 SARS burned itself out as fast as it did, the vaccine never even made it to animal testing stages in the USA.
But now? Now they've skipped everything.
https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus...l-testing-phase-straight-human-trials-2941208
Still playing with fire. Don't want to take any chances with this.And because it's a mostly proven technology (it's worked on every other strain of flu we've used it on), they've already begun using the seasonal flu facilities to produce the vaccine. Nobody in the medical community thinks it will fail.
The only fear is if this strain is unusually mutative... but that's highly improbable given the gap between SARS and Wuhan. If anything, evidence suggests Covid strains are less mutative than the more common seasonal flu strains.
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