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Considering that this virus has been around for 40 or 50 years+, why is there not already vaccines available?
If they have not been able to create a vaccine in this time how are they so sure that they will have one soon?
 
Nictrix said:
Considering that this virus has been around for 40 or 50 years+, why is there not already vaccines available?
If they have not been able to create a vaccine in this time how are they so sure that they will have one soon?
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I'm not sure where you got your info from, but this is a new derivation/strain of the Sars which in itself is one of the 7 recent 'coronavirus' strains.
You can't really develop a vaccine that treats a new virus strain until it produces an outbreak where antibodies can be collected from patients who have recovered from an infection.
 
Chris_D said:
Nictrix said:
Considering that this virus has been around for 40 or 50 years+, why is there not already vaccines available?
If they have not been able to create a vaccine in this time how are they so sure that they will have one soon?
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I'm not sure where you got your info from, but this is a new derivation/strain of the Sars which in itself is one of the 7 recent 'coronavirus' strains.
You can't really develop a vaccine that treats a new virus strain until it produces an outbreak where antibodies can be collected from patients who have recovered from an infection.
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Fair enough, didnt know that there were different strains. The coronavirus itself however is not a new virus and there has been no reports that I have read of vaccines against it.
 
Nictrix said:
Chris_D said:
Nictrix said:
Considering that this virus has been around for 40 or 50 years+, why is there not already vaccines available?
If they have not been able to create a vaccine in this time how are they so sure that they will have one soon?
Click to expand...

I'm not sure where you got your info from, but this is a new derivation/strain of the Sars which in itself is one of the 7 recent 'coronavirus' strains.
You can't really develop a vaccine that treats a new virus strain until it produces an outbreak where antibodies can be collected from patients who have recovered from an infection.
Click to expand...
Fair enough, didnt know that there were different strains. The coronavirus itself however is not a new virus and there has been no reports that I have read of vaccines against it.
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The WHO site is a good source of information as well as the 'unofficial' wikipedia page.

I find it's best to avoid mainstream media where dissemination of facts and mis-information can and usually occurs and go direct to the best official source when searching for information.

Some helpful links:

W.H.O.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Vaccine
 
I guess it comes down to cost v life.
If the previous versions weren't so lethal then no-one would have been prepared to put the money into stopping them.
Who knows? Maybe false economy in the long run.
As my father (78) and mother-in-law (83) both have COPD, and dad is also waiting on a heart valve replacement that is at a critical stage, i am grasping at every straw going!
 
I've done a bit of work with IBM, been to their research facility in Hersley....they bang on about their AI and quantum computer being so utterly powerful that we can't even think about what it could do. Well, it can't even solve a vaccine formula for a relatively simple virus...I simply don't get that. :?
 
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