We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time

[night_son]

The article, from the Intelligencer:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html

Excerpt from the above article:

"You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial. This is — as the country and the world are rightly celebrating — the fastest timeline of development in the history of vaccines. It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it ."


Comment(s):

Well I'll be a suck-egg mule. Not enough? Hmm . . . well I'll be a suck-egg mule bathed in the naked blackbody radiation of a neutron star. Better? That's something else, now ain't it—about already having the vaccine. What do y'all think?

 

[Moonglow]

It's a bummer Dude.... So is finding out that blackholes are now just a quantum fuzz....

 

[candycorn]

From your source:

"To be clear, I don’t want to suggest that Moderna should have been allowed to roll out its vaccine in February or even in May, when interim results from its Phase I trial demonstrated its basic safety. “That would be like saying we put a man on the moon and then asking the very same day, ‘What about going to Mars?’ ” says Nicholas Christakis, who directs Yale’s Human Nature Lab and whose new book, Apollo’s Arrow, sketches the way COVID-19 may shape our near-term future. Moderna’s speed was “astonishing,” Christakis says, though the design of other vaccines was nearly as fast: BioNTech with Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca. "

 

[Mac-7]

It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it ."

No one will know that till the chinese disease goes away

maybe vaccines are the answer and maybe they arent

 

[night_son]

It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it ."

No one will know that till the chinese disease goes away

maybe vaccines are the answer and maybe they arent

I agree. The article, while well written mechanically, is substantively lacking and breathtakingly speculative. It reads like a lump of coal in some guy's stocking.

 

[Darkwind]

The article, from the Intelligencer:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html

Excerpt from the above article:

"You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial. This is — as the country and the world are rightly celebrating — the fastest timeline of development in the history of vaccines. It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it ."


Comment(s):

Well I'll be a suck-egg mule. Not enough? Hmm . . . well I'll be a suck-egg mule bathed in the naked blackbody radiation of a neutron star. Better? That's something else, now ain't it—about already having the vaccine. What do y'all think?

you think that is something, you should read about the fact that blood testing of the nation's blood bank discovered that the cv19 has been in the USA since at least the fall of 2019.