British drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, which has the licence for the Oxford University vaccine, is ramping up its global manufacturing capacity and has agreed to supply 100 million doses to the UK alone and possibly two billion globally - should it prove successful. Clinical trials were paused this week after a participant had a suspected adverse reaction in the UK.
Pfizer and BioNTech, who say they have invested more than $1bn in their Covid-19 programme developing an mRNA vaccine, expect to be ready to seek some form of regulatory approval as early as October this year. If approved, that would mean manufacturing up to 100 million doses by the end of 2020 and potentially more than 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021. There are around 20 other pharmaceutical companies with clinical trials under way.
Everyone wants the vaccine, so the UN is trying to make sure poor countries get it quickly.
The article goes into the various types of vaccines being made, and then into the logistics on who should get the shot first.
here is a list of the various vaccines in the UK, including a discussion on how the vaccine will stop the virus.
https://youtu.be/w4rogMS4EGc
In the US, the quick relase of the well tested vaccine is opposed by a sophisticated propaganda campaign...so why would Kamela Harris oppose the US vaccine?
Politics of course.
Phase 3 tests of thousands is almost done on half a dozen western vaccines, and it looks good. One person might have had a side effect, which is hyped all over the press, but the good antibody and T cell immunity found from the vaccine is barely discussed.
What is behing the rejection of a vaccine? superstition and paranoia.
My son is sceptical about the US vaccine because he is convinced Trump is releasing it early for political reasons... but then he tells me that the Russian vaccine works.
So much for science... fully tested western vaccine (tens of thousands in the phase3 testing) is presented as bad, while the untested (well, actually tested on 67 people in phase two testing) Russian vaccine is ok?
One wonders how much of the anti vax movement which is pushed on the internet is pushed by some with a larger agenda.
After all, misdirecting rage and distrust against the vaccine because Trump will benefit China and Russia... by making the public health (recommended by the CDC experts, not Trump, who merely followed their advise) response the problem, not the Chinese policies of coverup that left the virus lose on the world...and of course now both Russia and China have untested vaccines to give out to poor countries (see we are your friends)...Russia is even offering to send cookbook instructions to Brazil and the Philippines so we can make our own version of their vaccine.
This has big geopolitical implications.
One wonders how many of the videos out there pushing conspiracy theories are influenced by Russia (or China).
Others, of course, are pushed by people whose websites offer snake oil cures and over priced survivalist gear for you to buy.
?........
Update
Joe Biden's coronavirus adviser Dr. Vivek Murthy says the candidate has "already started" work on his plan for expanding testing, building contact tracing capacity and distributing a vaccine.
Translation: The plan is to criticize the vaccine via their minions in the MSM so people distrust any of the six different vaccines, but voila, once Biden is elected, he will wave a magic wand and everything will be done and you will be saved (translation: instantly the plans developed by professional scientists and experts in the logistics of mass vaccine projects under the Trump administration will be implemented but Biden will take credit for it.)
Thousands will die because of this politically inspired delay, or because the antivax propaganda will scare people by hyping the possibility of a rare side effect, but never mind: Once Biden is elected everyone will trust the government again...
It's politics. Remember this when the headlines shout if someone dies of something probably unrelated but the death could be spun as vaccine related. (Remember how the fish tank cleaner chloroquin overdose death was hyped? One expert at Yale said this could have saved tens of thousands if it had been used properly.... Same here).
Duh. All the concerns will disappear if Biden wins, (and if he loses, there are plans by some groups to start a civil war.)
of course, not all the hype is by Democrats:
The anti vax greenies of the left have hated modern medicine and vaccines for years, but now this conspiracy theory is being pushed on the right wing trad Catholics and the back to nature "air conditioners are a sin" Francis Catholics.
That feisty Jewish Carpenter said render to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God's, but hey, that doesn't stop nincompoops from using religion to push their agenda.
And since both the Russians and the Chinese would benefit from the western vaccines being delayed, one does wonder if Russian or Chinese bots/ social media posts/ emails/conspiracy videos are behind a lot of this disinformation...
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