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SilverSolder:

How fast can the life sciences work?


March 16, 2020
SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday -- leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2020/03/16/coronavirus-vaccine-test-opens-as-us-volunteer-gets-1st-shot
vad:
Chief scientist on Trump’s task force said it will take 12-18 months. My hope, they will find a way to cut corners, and maybe we will see “deployable” vaccine by fall. They are already doing that, by going straight to phase 1 clinical trials, bypassing animal testing.
Bud:
Frankly, 18 months is what pretty much all other medical specialists are estimating , not only that genius in us government.
Stray Electron:
   12 to 18 months is an incredibly fast time to market for anything medical in the US. Usually the time is measured in decades. As the previous poster pointed out, they're skipping animal testing and have started human testing. But it will take months to see which treatments are effective and which aren't. They hope to have those answers by about August or September. After that they think it will take 6 months to start manufacturing and probably another 6 months before they have enough doses to begin to inoculate large numbers of people.
vad:
Also note that influenza vaccine is reformulated twice a year. So obviously flu vac does not go through the 12-18 month long clinical trials and production cycle. Otherwise it will become obsolete, due to flu mutation, before vaccine is released.

With economy at stake, bureaucrats may streamline their approval processes, and with government funding businesses may ramp up vaccine production capacity. Or maybe not...
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