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NerdyPotato · M
To everyone saying the vaccines have been rushed:
1) Most vaccines are based on a weakened version of the virus. This means labs have to obtain a live sample before they can start research. The covid-19 vaccine is based on genetic code that can be shared digitally, meaning all labs worldwide could start within hours after this was identified in China.
2) Clinical research usually happens in sequence, but due to the impact of social-economic impact of COVID-19, the various phases of clinical trials were held on parallel.
3) Money is a major limiting factor, but again due to the high impact, governments worldwide have made huge amounts of money available to speed up the process.
Due to these factors the development and testing went a lot quicker than for the average vaccine, but the steps are the same and these vaccines have to go through the same approval process as any other and need to hold up to the same standard.
Yes, vaccines have caused some long term problems in relatively rare cases in the past regardless and that may be the case with these ones too. But it is almost impossible to cause a variety of organ damage as the virus does in 70% of infections including healthy young people with mild symptoms.
1) Most vaccines are based on a weakened version of the virus. This means labs have to obtain a live sample before they can start research. The covid-19 vaccine is based on genetic code that can be shared digitally, meaning all labs worldwide could start within hours after this was identified in China.
2) Clinical research usually happens in sequence, but due to the impact of social-economic impact of COVID-19, the various phases of clinical trials were held on parallel.
3) Money is a major limiting factor, but again due to the high impact, governments worldwide have made huge amounts of money available to speed up the process.
Due to these factors the development and testing went a lot quicker than for the average vaccine, but the steps are the same and these vaccines have to go through the same approval process as any other and need to hold up to the same standard.
Yes, vaccines have caused some long term problems in relatively rare cases in the past regardless and that may be the case with these ones too. But it is almost impossible to cause a variety of organ damage as the virus does in 70% of infections including healthy young people with mild symptoms.
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NerdyPotato · M
@geoam1 for diseases with limited victims, the governments aren't chiming in (much).