Originally Posted by
GeeWizDriver
A retired pathologist of my acquaintance, one with 40 years of experience in virology and infectious disease, explained the vaccine development process to me at dinner last Tuesday night. In detail. Long story short, it's a year to develop in the lab. Then two years to verify safety. Then another two years to verify effectiveness. Five years total. On a fast track.
He and his wife are in their mid 70's and he said there is no way in HE// they will subject themselves to a vaccine developed in less than a year.
The fastest any vaccine has ever been developed and put into use - to my knowledge - is the Ebola vaccine. It is not generally used, but given only to wall off outbreaks (ring immunization) of Ebola which even with good medical care has about a 25% death rate and without good care as high as 90%. It is a pretty miserable immunization to take but appears fairly safe:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/dise.../ebola-vaccine
however “community resistance” to these immunizations “remains a problem.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...al-drc-region/