The hunt for a coronavirus vaccine has begun dominating the news. It isn’t just Bill Gates or Dr. Anthony Fauci driving the narrative anymore. With at least 224 vaccines in development and rising, the hunt has turned into a race between competing pharmaceutical companies and university research centers who are trying to cash in on the coronavirus crisis.
Whoever lands the prize will be set in this history books and receive financial rewards like no other research project has garnered in history. The stakes are high. Now, the narrative is shifting. It isn’t because herd immunity, shifting weather, declining death rates, and other factors are reducing the need, though all might be the case. No, the challenge they’re claiming is that there aren’t enough infected people to properly test vaccines.
Low virus rate leaves Oxford vaccine trial with ‘only 50% chance’
This week, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced a $US1.2 billion deal with the United States to produce 400 million doses of an unproven coronavirus vaccine first produced in Hill’s small Oxford lab. The British government has agreed to pay for up to 100 million doses, announcing that 30 million might be ready for British citizens as soon as September.
The stakes could hardly be higher. If proven effective, the ZD1222 vaccine would allow people to leave their homes and go back to work, and the shattered global economy to rebuild. But Hill, director of the university’s Jenner Institute, revealed his team now faced a major problem, throwing the September deadline into doubt.
“It is a race, yes. But it’s not a race against the other guys. It’s a race against the virus disappearing, and against time,” he said. “At the moment, there’s a 50 per cent chance that we get no result at all.”
Hill said that of 10,000 people recruited to test the vaccine in the coming weeks — some of whom will be given a placebo — he expected fewer than 50 people to catch the virus. If fewer than 20 test positive, then the results might be useless, he warned.
“We’re in the bizarre position of wanting COVID to stay, at least for a little while. But cases are declining.”
More at: https://noqreport.com/2020/05/24/the...est-a-vaccine/
There will be no vaccine.
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