Nice ... come on, vaccine!
That, unfortunately, will take time. We need more vaccine production.
@Petter Under Warp Speed the ramp up has already begun. If approved on 1 December, millions of doses could be administered before year's end, and tens of millions in the first quarter of 2021, and hundreds of millions of doses by next summer, enough for most of the US population.
@p-nullifidian .... and the rest of the world? This is not an American, or America only, vaccine.
And it was developed by a German company.
Hence my comment, more production needed. Astra Zeneca's vaccine is close to approval, for example.
@p-nullifidian, @Petter and the Russian vaccine has been on the table awhile.
I did read the other day of a Venezuelan solution but of course if communist everyone will cut their noses off . . .
@FrayedBear The Venezuelan one has had adverse side effects. The Russian one has been rushed out without rigorous testing, although it may well be excellent. The world will only know after the Russian "involuntary guinea pigs" have been folliwed up.
@Petter one of the involuntary guinea pigs, as you choose to prejudicially name them, is Putin's daughter.
Reports of the side effects:
[the-sun.com]
And:
[reuters.com]
@Petter Agreed, production of the vaccine(s) will need to scale up. The BioNTech-Pfizer collaboration is just one of many in the 'race' to eliminate COVID. That said, Warp Speed's budget has been paid for by the American taxpayer, so it will be interesting to watch how a Biden administration handles the distribution of the vaccine outside of the US.