A vaccine? A cure?

Money. The big drug companies want all of our money that's why there isn't any cures.

Let's hope the vaccine does more good than harm.

I'm just not sold on it at all.😔I'm too scared to get a vaccine that's been rushed like it has. I'll just stay in the house for a couple of more years!🙃

It's a big strain on everything and everyone.

Basically it's a nasty superflu that weakens people, and some people get severe complications from it.

These vaccines can have complications too, though.

They are both corona viruses. SARS-COV-2 is the current one that causes the Covid-19 - within that there are already a lot of strains. Viruses mutate really quickly.

Finding vaccines is very hard work. I worked for a pharmaceutical company for some years. How a vaccine works is that you want to give people a dose of something that causes the body's immune system to believe it is the harm causing virus and produce antibodies. You essentially train the body to effectively attack it.

However there is the problem - finding something that makes the body believe that is it the virus but that is safe to give to people. Normally you try to "kill" (deactivate actually as it's not alive as such) the virus through heat or strong light etc. Or you deliberately encourage mutations of the virus to get a strain that physically is the same but not as harmful. A more modern but unproven method is to genetically make a something again with the same surface but safe to give to people. Most experimental vaccines will fail though as they prove to be ineffective or at times there's concern over their safety.

Corona Viruses mutate rapidly - especially when new in a species (as this one is now) or in other hosts, horseshoe bats in particular are great at creating nasty ones - this one possibly came from them and jumped to us. So even if you get a vaccine you have to get ahead again of it with another version.

If only we could just get the structure of the virus (which we got quickly on this one) and instantly have a vaccine that worked on it. Sadly we're just not that ahead of nature yet.

They can't even get the basic yearly flu vaccine right. Many that have died from the flu WERE vaccinated. Big pharma is playing on fears.

It's related to the cold, and also SARS and MERS. Well, technically, SARS, MERS, COVID-19 and the common cold are all coronaviruses.

Most colds are rhinovirus related although some of the coronavirus varieties cause cold symptoms. The problem with having a cure for the common cold is the constant mutation of the virus, same as the flu, which are caused by influenza virus's.

I have read that covid19 is not mutating like other corona varieties which does give hope for a vaccine.

I am not a doctor, I just play one on SW, like the rest of those answering this question, so any answer we all give should be taken with a grain of salt - which can cause hypertension.

Corona is a family of viruses. The common cold belongs to that family. What we're dealing with now, is called COVID-19.

There are 7 identified Coronavirus types.

4 of these are always in regular circulation in the population. They are "the common cold".

The other 3 are far more serious in that they cause worse condition (in some) and due to being "novel" (ie something not seen regularly by human immune systems) more infectious etc. These are the MERs-Cov one, the original SARS-CoV one and now SARS-CoV-2 which can lead to Covid-19 (which is the disease not the virus).

Regarding strains. All viruses are constantly mutating. Actually of SARS-CoV-2 we know of at least 6 main ones already.

They have already started animal testing. It was developed from work at UT, but they did not develop it using the actual virus so not sure how that works but microbiologist are pretty smart about these things. I also heard Israel is close to start testing soon as well.

I think I remember hearing that as well. Scientists are theorizing that they'll have some kind of cure or medicine for it in a year or so

They'd better just take people more seriously if they get anything with severe symptoms.

yes, it is...also SARS and the bird flu are variants of the Corona Virus

Your fellow Leftists at the CDC, WHO and China, along with your Leftist media concocted the constant FEAR about this virus. All in hopes of destroying the US economy and derailing the Trump presidency.

It’s 24/7 the world is going to end propaganda unless a “vaccine” is found. If you only knew how evil and toxic the Left is, maybe you would begin to see truth.

The Covid paper I read this morning was 7 pages long it said tons of stuff but nowhere anything as simplistic as a common cold. There is still a crap load of studies to be done so don't be bamboozled by some Happy Polyanna report you read.

The common cold is generally rhinovirus-caused, so not really.

A vaccine is at least a year out. We’ll have to do this one the old fashioned way.

I hope not cause there aint no clue for the common cold.

So, no cure.

In other postings here some are lamenting the fact that many drugs used here in America COME FROM CHINA! and that some pharmaceutical entities have even shut down here.

It is. Common colds are caused by various corona viruses. It is one of the reasons I doubt that they will ever come up with a vaccine. A treatment regimen seems much more likely.

the Usa will push the hardest.So money can be made as fast as possible.And not caring if it works or if it hurts people.

Use Lysol.

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