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02-05-2020 01:12 PM - edited 02-05-2020 01:17 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/health/coronavirus-nih-vaccine-development/index.html
The NIH doctor quoted in this story and seen on TV news shows every day lately is a hero behind many infectious disease breakthroughs over the years--including AIDS.
I'm amazed he hasn't retired yet. I guess he just hasn't finished saving the world.........LOL!!
I was surprised to read that the latest virus is supposedly spread from animals to humans.
02-05-2020 01:16 PM
You think? Not news.
02-05-2020 01:20 PM
Just wipe yourself down with a Lysol or Clorox wipe....it's listed on the back label. Lol
02-05-2020 01:21 PM - edited 02-05-2020 01:47 PM
Some people who post here know everything about everything already..........not everyone (including me) does.
02-05-2020 01:28 PM
They better hurry. I heard it takes at least a year to develop a vaccine...then it may mutate. Maybe the developer needs to put on a second shift.
02-05-2020 01:35 PM - edited 02-05-2020 01:37 PM
People at more than one research institution probably are working on it--just like more than one research group is working on the "universal flu vaccine", which we are told is under development.
The time lag in getting something new to the market--as always with any drug or vaccine--is caused by time to finish testing and regulatory approval.
02-05-2020 01:54 PM
Under special circumstances a vaccine, or other drug, can be released and used without the FDA's approval. In that case it's called "experimental" and is not covered by any insurance. You take it at your own risk and pay for all of it out of pocket.
02-05-2020 02:27 PM
One place where these "experimental" drugs are used is here at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/
I have known people with the types of conditions that NIH wants to study who get admitted to their research hospital in hopes of a treatment or cure for a terminal illness--with no guarantees but also free of charge.
Unfortunately, I will never forget the person I knew well who died there of incurable cancer.
02-05-2020 02:31 PM - edited 02-05-2020 02:36 PM
The experimental drugs are also used on our military members. I remember my dad, who was in the Army, taking ibuprofen way back before it was even known about. It wasn't until years later that he told me about even more drugs they used on them.
02-05-2020 02:52 PM - edited 02-05-2020 02:54 PM
After horror stories that came out many years ago, I'm pretty sure that the days when experimental treatments and drugs are given to unwitting "test subjects" are over.
Tylenol must have been one of the more benign experiments !!
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