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Verite1 · 18/03/2020 12:10
I think there are a few vaccines where testing is expected to start this month or next. The problem is that it is the testing which takes the time and cannot be shortened. I have read that one concern is that there is always a potential that a vaccine could worsen rather than improve, which is why such rigorous testing is required.
DGRossetti · 18/03/2020 12:13
There are some early trials going on in China and in two locations in the US. Very early. They involve previously unexposed victims/volunteers being injected with the trial vaccine. There is then a wait. Then they are exposed to the virus. Then they are monitored. Then all this has to be peer-reviewed and replicated.
Which is how any vaccine gets made anyway ...
The problem is side-effects, contra-indications, and unforeseen interactions with the panoply of genetic variations that exist in humans. Which can't but help take years to be bottomed out. And even then some could be missed with devastating if not fatal results.
Butterymuffin · 18/03/2020 13:00
I read on Twitter than some company has tried using anti malarial drugs as treatment and results looked good. That might be more promising if there are drugs that don't have go through approval. I could even put up with the orange one taking the credit somehow.
DGRossetti · 18/03/2020 13:11
I read on Twitter than some company has tried using anti malarial drugs as treatment and results looked good
was "The Lancet" full ?
hydroxychloroquine
Quite aside from a deep deep scepticism about "just so" cures (or "cures") the nastiness in quinine should make it a least-preferred option. Although you might be able to distract the terminally dim by saying: Look ! Tonic water ! as a distraction whilst you hit the Andrex aisle.
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