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LisaL

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9. What is surprising about it?

Reply to Paladin (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 8, 2020, 02:31 PM

Dec 2020

The article, despite the nutty headline, described the normal vaccine development. You can't design the vaccine and start giving it to people right away. Vaccine goes through many rounds of testing first.
Even now we have people complaining that vaccines haven't yet been tested enough.

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Has Anyone Seen this - Is it a Credible Site? [View all] montanacowboy Dec 2020 OP

Yes, NY Magazine is a reputable publication. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2020 #1

So the Dump KNEW montanacowboy Dec 2020 #3

Everybody with a half a brain cell knew. LisaL Dec 2020 #6

The source is credible. Agschmid Dec 2020 #2

If it's true it's horrible news. In_The_Wind Dec 2020 #4

Do people freaking not understand how this works? LisaL Dec 2020 #7

So many people are dead now, while this was going on. In_The_Wind Dec 2020 #11

WTF did you want done? LisaL Dec 2020 #15

What shortcuts do you think should have been taken with the vaccines? Mariana Dec 2020 #37

Exactly. mRNA vaccines can be made in days, but it's not tested. NutmegYankee Dec 2020 #35

The article is exaggerating at LOT, the mRNA were able to be made days after the genetic sequence .. uponit7771 Dec 2020 #18

Thank you. In_The_Wind Dec 2020 #33

no it's not. it actually shows how we've been able to get to a vaccine for distribution so quickly unblock Dec 2020 #21

This has been posted a couple of times here already. LisaL Dec 2020 #5

I keep expecting to not be surprised by anything, anymore. Paladin Dec 2020 #8

What is surprising about it? LisaL Dec 2020 #9

Ah, it's much more exciting to be shocked! Maeve Dec 2020 #20

It rates "high" in terms of factual reporting. subterranean Dec 2020 #10

New York Magazine does very credible reporting. MineralMan Dec 2020 #12

This article describes a normal development of a vaccine. LisaL Dec 2020 #13

I read about mRNA vaccine candidates very early on. MineralMan Dec 2020 #14

Adenovirus vaccine candidates were designed early on as well. LisaL Dec 2020 #16

Yes. There are still additional vaccine candidates in the wings. MineralMan Dec 2020 #22

All three have issues. LisaL Dec 2020 #26

I have no objection to further testing and development MineralMan Dec 2020 #27

Russia is starting mass vaccination with their own vaccine. LisaL Dec 2020 #28

We know very little about those vaccines, though. MineralMan Dec 2020 #30

Well, some posters here obviously think that you can design a vaccine and start LisaL Dec 2020 #31

Yes, so it seems. MineralMan Dec 2020 #32

an observation jobendorfer Dec 2020 #17

And even that vaccine is going for an emergency approval only. LisaL Dec 2020 #25

If Covid had been more deadly, testing would have been bypassed & volume manufacturing started Klaralven Dec 2020 #19

If you bypass testing, you could end up with ineffective and dangerous vaccine. LisaL Dec 2020 #23

That's not true... orwell Dec 2020 #24

If 100,000 a week are dying, you'd roll out whatever vaccine you could produce. Klaralven Dec 2020 #29

That's just not true... orwell Dec 2020 #34

We didn't have the vaccine all along... SidDithers Dec 2020 #36