Who will take a chance and be the first persons to receive the first shots to cure or prevent Covid-19, not due for at least another year which is Spring of 2021?
Me!! I want it now. I wish there was a trial going on near me, in fact. I’d want to get injected with the trial vaccine.
Already begun.
People are getting trial versions right now. By the time they go into full production it will have been heavily tested in thousands of people. I’d be first in line.
Presumably any vaccine will be offered first to people in the highest risk groups. You don’t get to choose to be first in line.
I’m in a high-risk group. I’ll be dead by then.
One of my earliest memories is of being in a car with a batch of other little kids, all of us enroute to get the polio vaccine as soon as it became available.
Yup, I’ll get this one as soon as it’s on the market.
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My concern is that this presumption that this will be heavily tested, is incorrect. This Moderna vaccine linked above has already cut corners; it has exactly zero efficacy data in animal models.
I’m an immunologist. I work in this field. My answer to this question is “it depends”. Any vaccine that is available within the next 12-18 months is unlikely to have a sufficient amount of data around it that I would take it.
Hard question for me. I just turned 50, and have never had the flu, and thus never taken a flu shot. When I get sick, it’s basically always a sore throat, headache or cough, and I can’t remember the last time I had a significant fever. But I have no idea if that history helps at all in determining how susceptible I am to COVID-19. I guess I will just have to wait and see.
I’ll get it as soon as I can. I’m ticking every box for lower-risk groups so far: young, healthy, female, type O blood. I won’t push grandpa out of the way but I’ll be next in line. I’m a big believer in vaccines as a general social necessity. Yes, there are risks, and for some vulnerable individuals the risks are too great. But for the rest of us, taking on those risks is the right thing to do.
Once it becomes widely recommended AND available, I’ll get mine asap. I’m not shoving people out of the way though - if there are limited numbers to start with, others are going to be way more at-risk than I am (31 and in good health).
I will be first in line assuming I live so long. At 83 my chances of survival if I get it are poor.
I’d volunteer for the trial and I’d get a regular one as soon as reasonable.
Last. I don’t trust the procedure that will certainly be rushed. Y’all gonna make some Resident Evil shit or that Stephen King short story where everyone became idiots.
I am such an oddball. I figure I will get the vaccine, like all such preventative medical procedures, and drugs when my physician advises me that it is available, and warranted. I suppose I could start checking Youtube, and Facebook for my medical decisions, but, well, I’m not all that modern.
Not me. If there’s a limited supply, I’m not going to butt in line ahead of other people who need it more.
Your chances of survival from the data so far for over 80s are 85%. Sure that’s absolutely not a percentage you should be satisfied with but it’s not as gloomy as you suggest. And if you don’t have particular underlying health conditions it’ll be into the mid/high 90s.
I’m in most of the high-risk groups. Over 50, asthma, high blood pressure, type A blood. I’ll be one of the first in line for the vaccine. After three months if I’ve had no bad effects then Celtling will get it.
According to the caption, that is a Phase 1 trial, which means they don’t even care if it works, or expect it to; it’s a rudimentary safety test. So that lady can’t even expect to get immunity from this test.
I mean, it’s progress. They’re past the lab stage, at least. Quite some distance away though. Don’t bother volunteering until Phase 3.