The First Covid Vaccine Will Not Make Life Normal Again

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The United States may be within months of a profound turning point in the country’s fight against the coronavirus: the first working vaccine.

Demonstrating that a new vaccine was safe and effective in less than a year would shatter the record for speed, the result of seven-day work weeks for scientists and billions of dollars of investment by the government. Provided enough people can get one, the vaccine may slow a pandemic that has already killed a million people worldwide.

It’s tempting to look at the first vaccine as President Trump does: an on-off switch that will bring back life as we know it. “As soon as it’s given the go-ahead, we will get it out, defeat the virus,” he said at a September news conference. But vaccine experts say we should prepare instead for a perplexing, frustrating year.

The first vaccines may provide only moderate protection, low enough to make it prudent to keep wearing a mask. By next spring or summer, there may be several of these so-so vaccines, without a clear sense of how to choose from among them. Because of this array of options, makers of a superior vaccine in early stages of development may struggle to finish clinical testing. And some vaccines may be abruptly withdrawn from the market because they turn out not to be safe.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-first-covid-vaccine-will-not-make-life-normal-again/ar-BB19WDXR?li=BBnb7Kz

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Even in the best of all possible worlds,

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that the vaccine is safe, effective, and long lasting, it's still going to take a very long time, probably years, before enough people are actually vaccinated. And that's not even noting that there will be some who will refuse the vaccine.

Edited thanks to a careless error pointed out by better. Thank you!

[grantcart]

2. Yep

[tblue37]

6. Just a heads up: You accidentally wrote "virus" when you meant "vaccine."

[calimary]

3. It boils down to an old cliche that still proves true: Haste makes waste.

[The Magistrate]

4. True, Sir

[Doodley]

5. Then it will be even more difficult to get people to wear masks. They will

just say, "I don't need one. I've been vaccinated," and we won't know if they are, or if how much immunity the vaccine even gives for sure. Step one should be masks. If everyone wore a mask for two weeks, this virus would be stopped in its tracks and numbers would be very low.

[Raster]

7. If EVERYONE in this country would commit to rigidly and unflinchingly wearing a mask...

...and practice first-rate hand sanitization, FOR FOUR WEEKS, we could move to the next phase, which would be cautiously reopening. Four fucking weeks. No, it would not eliminate the virus, but it would make it far easier to track and trace. It would put us in a position of being able to manage the various processes leading to recovery. FOUR WEEKS. Four weeks of NO POLITICS, just good ol' fifth grade science. We could begin to end this nightmare. Four weeks.