Related, some thoughts from a friend on Facebook:
Of course, my prediction is that — even if this is the timetable — by the time a vaccine is widely available the pandemic will be largely over.--Posted by
I expect that a lot of people currently saying “wait until there’s a vaccine” will be saying “not this vaccine.”Nearly absent from the general COVID discussion is Operation Warp Speed, a stupendously expensive all-out USG effort to create, mass manufacture, and distribute a working vaccine for the disease in under one year. To term it a Manhattan-Project level effort is for once not overstatement: the envisaged timeframe is historically short, and there has never before been a successful vaccine for this sort of virus. The effort alone is crazy, and here’s the really crazy part: it looks like it’s going to work.
There are a sufficient number of promising vaccines now in the pipeline that it is overwhelmingly probable at least one of them will make it to full deployment...
It should be good news for all mankind, of course. But guess how it will be covered and received. Just guess. Think about it now.
Of course, my prediction is that — even if this is the timetable — by the time a vaccine is widely available the pandemic will be largely over.--Posted by
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