Covid-19 Vaccine?

[Major Tom]

If and when a vaccine is available, will it perform as well or worse than ordinary flu vaccines? The common flu mutates every year. And, every year there is always a shortage of vaccine. Vaccines change accordingly. So, will the covid-19 mutate? If it does, the future (January 2021) vaccine may not be any good.

[dogtag]

Don't know. But what I do know is, I've been taking an Aspirin every other day for 25 or more years
and I've never had the Flu or anything else for that matter. It doesn't stop ageing though.
A regimen of Aspirin, cigars and Bourbon will kill any bug.

[clintonhater]

Stop using the Chinese-ass kissing, & generally left-wing (like most international orgs), WHO name for what Pres. Trump PROPERLY calls CHINESE FLU, Chiflu, for short!

Doing this is as revoltingly PC as calling homos "gay."

[Art]

Maybe there will be a vaccine and maybe not. People act like a vaccine is inevitable and I hope they get there but when you look at all of the bugs they've been working on a vaccine for for decades; everything from the common cold to HIV without coming up with anything you have to realize it isn't a sure thing. There are some promising leads in the search, or so I hear.

It's going to be interesting to see what the deaths are this year from drug overdoses, suicides, homicides etc. If there are statistically significant increases in numbers for that stuff, well that will be the butcher's bill for this shutdown. Not quantifiable will be things like folks who died because they didn't get routine medical screenings during this bug.

[dogtag]

They'll never come up with a vaccine for the common cold.
Too many "Cold Remedy" businesses would go bust.

[PWC]

I originally thought the virus was militarily weaponized. Release it to the enemy and sit back and let THEM tell you how effective it is with their liberal left "journalism". Now, I belive it was released as an economical weapon. We've been in an economic war with China for many years; Trump is the only president to articulate so, at least publically.

Trump has been successfuly beating China in the export/import game and several times he's said China's enonomy is in the tank. It is my opinion, now, that China released the virus to impact the world economies, knowing it would drag them down/slow them down to a crawl and make the playing field more economically level hoping recovery growth would help them.

[Roadkingtrax]

That's like admitting Chinese superiority.

[dryheat]

That's pretty out there. China is a huge exporter. Let's kill all our customers.

[PWC]

That's like admitting Chinese superiority.

What is it you don't understand about them having to catch up? If you are in a superior ppsition, you don't have to catch up.

[PWC]

That's pretty out there. China is a huge exporter. Let's kill all our customers.

China has demonstrsted how cheaply they hold life. If they already have a nad economy, but "unlimited" manpower, dragging down your customer's advantage enhances yours.

[clintonhater]

That's like admitting Chinese superiority.

I admit their superiority in making products that are seldom of top quality, but are of top value; that is, more bang for the buck.

For ex., is a $500 Norinco M1A anywhere near as good as a US-made $1500 M1A? Certainly not, but is the US product 3X better than the Norinco? I don't see it.

Do such "good values" justify or compensate for their outrageous political & economic transgressions? FAR from it! But it does no good to deny their ability to turn out good-value products.

[S.A. Boggs]

Except for the cancer I was always healthy and turned back sick leave to the clinic. Standing joke was that any germ that bit me deserved what it got. Mom always said to wash your hands and keep them to yourself. Mom made sure we kids kept our hands in our pockets when we went anywhere. Mom told us that if our hands are in our pockets no one would accuse us of swiping/breaking anything. A swat on the butt if we forgot her rule and I did this to when I started to wear gloves from the cancer.
Sam

[togor]

If and when a vaccine is available, will it perform as well or worse than ordinary flu vaccines? The common flu mutates every year. And, every year there is always a shortage of vaccine. Vaccines change accordingly. So, will the covid-19 mutate? If it does, the future (January 2021) vaccine may not be any good.

Well so far it is reported that the virus hasn't mutated in meaningful ways. That bodes well for a vaccine, provided they get one that produces effective antibodies.

We're still using a 1950's measels vaccine. And it still works because the antibodies produced target that part of the virus that can't mutate without the virus itself losing potency.

Whether or not the SARS-Covid-2 virus has that kind of vulnerability remains to be seen. But the analytical ttols available these days are incredible.