RE: Vaccine - Antibody importance or not?15 Jul 2020 11:31
I guess my thoughts on vaccines are:
1. Vaccines normally take 2 years to test and then get accepted - a Covid vaccine would be fast-tracked - I am not a tin foil hat person, but I would have misgivings about a drug given to me and my kids that maybe has been fast-tracked and thus, not tested fully with long terms effects not known
2. A vaccine like the tests would need to be manufactured - there are >7bn people in the world - even producing 1/4 of that will be a herculeam task (flu for example, companies make @250m per annum)
3. Vaccine will be expensive - if people may have natural antibodies, I figure it would make sense to check first with a test that costs maybe 10% of the vaccine
4. The vaccines will be in strong demand and likely, the countries that they are manufactured in will attempt to keep them in that country - UK has no suitable manufacturing in volume - one is being built as we speak but that is months off
Personally, I can't see vaccine being made and rolled out for sometime so testing will have to remain..........