Big pharma companies have wanted mRNA vaccines for years. Others have been developed and even gone through trails that never got approved for markets.
There are also trials for therapeutics such as inhaled steroids; something doctors in certain regions have been prescribing off-label for months and claim to have very high success rates. Yet organizations like the NIH are saying they shouldn't be used until the trials/studies are done... and they've been saying that since August.
Honestly, I'd rather more effort be put into seeing if existing therapeutics can be used to reduce the effects of moderate/severe COIVD.
Let's face it. The drug companies got millions just to attempt to develop these vaccines, many of those attempts which will be failures. They don't care. They already have tax payer money from countries all around the world. This is a push to the first mRNA vaccine out, so the Gavi Health Alliance can start pushing more of them.
There is a huge money incentive we're ignoring. It's not on this particular vaccine; it's on all the future vaccines--some which have already been developed and never made it through all their trails/approved--and the billions they stand to make from them.
A vaccine reduces the effects of moderate/severe Covid to zero. All other treatments mean at best time off of what I want to be doing while I'm treated. That is at best, the most likey case is you still get the bad side effects - including long-covid (whatever that is, science is still working that out), just a bit reduced. I'll take zero effects.
There are also trials for therapeutics such as inhaled steroids; something doctors in certain regions have been prescribing off-label for months and claim to have very high success rates. Yet organizations like the NIH are saying they shouldn't be used until the trials/studies are done... and they've been saying that since August.
Honestly, I'd rather more effort be put into seeing if existing therapeutics can be used to reduce the effects of moderate/severe COIVD.
Let's face it. The drug companies got millions just to attempt to develop these vaccines, many of those attempts which will be failures. They don't care. They already have tax payer money from countries all around the world. This is a push to the first mRNA vaccine out, so the Gavi Health Alliance can start pushing more of them.
There is a huge money incentive we're ignoring. It's not on this particular vaccine; it's on all the future vaccines--some which have already been developed and never made it through all their trails/approved--and the billions they stand to make from them.