On the JRE podcast, Michael Osterholm said that a vaccine within a year was wishful thinking. It takes a long time to ensure that the vaccine: 1. doesn't harm 2. doesn't cause contagiousness 3. works It's easy to make a potential vaccine, hard to make one that works.
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Replying to @davekopec
Didn't know that Fauci said that - cool. There are certainly reasons to not be certain that a vaccine is possible. We've had HIV for a while now for example.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @davekopec
When there's a known unknown, we'll be in much better shape. Unknown unknown is the scary place we are now, sadly.
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Replying to @mgirdley @davekopec
I’m optimistic about certain unknown knowns in China telling us the way forward here.
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