Mnementh said:
Actually, this all sounds realistic. The type of vaccine can be developed pretty fast and there are other developments in different countries of similar type (putting stufff in adenoviruses) that is only a month or so behind the russian vaccine. The main part is that they skip the last test-round or execute it parallel to already using the vaccine. That strategy has risks. |
Actually, their vaccine isn't even the most advanced since they haven't begun phase III trials and their earlier tests concerned a grand total of 38 people. I would have expected at least some actual corner cutting like successful challenge studies but no, they're basically rolling out an unfinished product. And I sincerely doubt this is even going to be tested in healthcare professionals at all (no respectable one would want to take it) unless they're under threat of being dropped off a building, like it already happened before in Russia.
The thing is, is isn't just about it being ineffective but harmless or being something like a medicine with some side effects. There's a real danger an improper vaccine might lead to the disease being worse than it actually would be otherwise, considering there's a plausible chance (looking at former SARS and RSV research) that the inflammatory response becomes more damaging to the body, even if the virus itself is cleared more quickly.
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