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Yeah hard and fast liberalism. Way to go /s off

Started out legit... Covid vaccine in March 20 ? Not even the autocrats of the world dared that prior to evidence.




Covid vaccine in March 20 ? Not even the autocrats of the world dared that prior to evidence.

If Covid had a higher fatality rate, there's an excellent chance we'd have seen vaccines in accelerated trials as early as March 2020. The vaccines were in existence by around that point[0], but in part because mRNA vaccines are a brand new technology there wasn't as much push to accelerate distribution as there could have been.

If the fatality or long term damage rate was 10x what it is, there'd have been a lot more willingness to "try it NOW."

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8071766/ - of note, Moderna had a vaccine prepared 42 days after the spike protein sequence was published on January 10. It took roughly another 6 weeks before that vaccine was being injected in Phase 1 trials in early May.


Medical records will shift to be owned by the patients, will be real time, the grammars will be open source and public domain, and people will be able to opt in and out of studies with a single click. When we have that, then when confronted with the next novel virus we could launch trials in under 30 days.




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