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Project targets enough doses for most Americans by January
Fauci has said vaccine will take 12 to 18 months to develop
The Trump administration is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine, with a goal of making enough doses for most Americans by years end.
Called Operation Warp Speed, the program will pull together private pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and the military to try to cut the development time for a vaccine by as much as eight months, according to two people familiar with the matter.
As part of the arrangement, taxpayers will shoulder much of the financial risk that vaccine candidates may fail, instead of drug companies.
The project will cost billions of dollars, one of the people said. And it will almost certainly result in significant waste by making inoculations at scale before knowing if theyll be safe and effective -- meaning that vaccines that fail will be useless. But it could mean having doses of vaccine available for the American public by the end of this year, instead of by next summer.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/trump-s-operation-warp-speed-aims-to-rush-coronavirus-vaccine
Squinch
(50,993 posts)or cause serious and lasting health issues.
I won't be in the first wave to take it.
agingdem
(7,853 posts)not tomorrow or next week or next month..a year to a year and a half away and there's no guarantee the virus will not mutate...this is about suppressing the symptoms once you get it...like tamiflu...it will not eradicate it...that science takes years
Squinch
(50,993 posts)studied for their ability to suppress symptoms. A vaccine is to eradicate the disease.
That DOES take years. That's why I am certain that this administration will screw it up and kill people in the process.
agingdem
(7,853 posts)it will tamp down symptoms much like HIV anti viral meds...and you're right...they will screw it up big time...they will deny those they deem unworthy the so-called vaccine..and in the process harm/kill the first wave of guinea pigs
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,586 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)Space Force can get the vaccine from one part of the earth to a whole other part of the earth by going AROUND....in space!!
Huh? Pretty impressive amiright?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,586 posts)dweller
(23,651 posts)As part of the arrangement, taxpayers will shoulder much of the financial risk that vaccine candidates may fail, instead of drug companies.
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SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)They won't take the risk of a huge expense if there's no verified business case for it.
I wouldn't either. If you want my company to do something like that, pay me to do it. Otherwise, I'll invest where there is a verified business case for it.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)GopherGal
(2,009 posts)Basically, I think the full-scale manufacturing is to be done in parallel with the testing. If the result of the trials is that it's good, there will be doses available for the public right away. If it's not efficacious, the material already manufactured will be trash and the money spent manufacturing it wasted.
Literally buying time, paying for the manufacture of commercial scale quantities of the candidate vaccine "at risk" before completion of the efficacy trial.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)or any forward progress!!!
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And will Trump enterprises have the exclusive patent?
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)The 50% death rate will be our first tip.
underpants
(182,868 posts)Cloaking device. Huh? Pretty impressive AmIright?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And I have the best words.
Squinch
(50,993 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Sounds like another bailout of Big Pharma to me.
No sale.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)if we also raise shields to maximum!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If the administration was serious, this would be Operation Ludicrous Speed!
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)I think that's self-evident.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Ludicrous speed won't be enough.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)"I knew it. I'm surrounded by a-holes."
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)that we keep referencing a Star Trek term with a Star Wars parody.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)Good thinking. Theyll get Space Force right on that.
you got a laugh outta me.
pwb
(11,287 posts)so efficient at everything? Not.
Caliman73
(11,744 posts)We need to develop a vaccine and effective treatment. I don't mind clearing obstacles or high costs, even if taxpayers are involved. The problem I have with the proposals are that Trump and his administration do not have a plan and their goal is rarely the benefit of the American people. If we do this "warp speed" thing, there have to be CLEAR rules that the product is for the benefit of the people and the property of the people. There should not be any profit for private companies and the vaccine should be "paid for" meaning that the tax dollars we invested should make the vaccine completely free to all of us.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)It will be free for Americans.
tanyev
(42,601 posts)as everything else theyve done.