The CDC is developing a coronavirus vaccine. Great. Something else for the idiots to refuse.

[Aristus]

I predict a flood of people coming in to the clinic terrified of getting the coronavirus; and they'll still decline vaccination.

[blue neen]

1. Then there are those of us who would like to get vaccinated, but the shots are unavailable.

i.e. Shingles.

[comradebillyboy]

5. I was on a six month waiting list for the zoster shots.

But Costco pharmacy finally came through.

[blue neen]

6. We're pretty far away from Costco.

We're on a waiting list at another pharmacy with 500 other people! Sheesh!

[Blue_true]

7. Are there pictures of Shingles online? I have heard about. nt

[blue neen]

10. Oh yeah.

There are some here: https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/shingles/ss/slideshow-shingles-pictures

[Blue_true]

27. The looks nasty. Must be tough for people to wear clothes when the blisters

form.

[MiniMe]

8. I just got t he Shingrix vaccine

I think that is the "latest and greatest" shingles vaccine. Got it at the pharnacy at the grocery store.

[Lars39]

12. It's actually two shots you get 2-4 months apart.

[MiniMe]

16. Yup, I had both of them

[LastDemocratInSC]

26. Got my 1st recently.

[Raster]

2. and the herd self-thins...

...

[Aristus]

3. But they'll infect a lot of people before the thinning.

People, who for one legitimate reason or another, are unable to get vaccinated; allergy to the vaccine, etc.

They always put innocent people at risk with their douchebaggery...

[Raster]

4. I could not agree more.

[bluecollar2]

9. Is the CDC still functional?

I'm surprised Moscow Mitch and the Mango Mussolini haven't privatised it yet...or at least rendered it functionally incompetent.

[womanofthehills]

11. 10% cut - CDC -

Trump released his fiscal year 2020 federal budget proposal in March, recommending huge cuts across the federal government, including a 12 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a 10 percent cut for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At CDC, a reduction of that magnitude equates to a $750 million spending cut over fiscal year 2019. APHA member John Auerbach, MBA, president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health, said the proposed CDC cuts not only threaten federal public health capacity, they would have a “devastating” impact on state and local public health departments, which depend heavily on CDC dollars flowing down to the community level.

The budget proposes a near $20 million cut to injury prevention and control, a more than $30 million cut to public health preparedness [/b]and response, and a more than $78 million cut to immunization activities, including work to sustain and improve immunization coverage. The budget also zeros out critical funding for epidemiology and laboratory capacity at state and local levels.

http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/49/3/1.2

[Zolorp]

13. We are a minimum of 1 year away from a vaccine.

Meanwhile both infections and deaths took a massive leap this evening, supporting an R0 of between 2.5 and 4 and a death rate about 20 times more than the flu.

7814 infections
170 Dead
133 Recovered.

The ratio between dead and recovered has remained consistent throughout. We'll know the true R0 and death rate within a couple of weeks.

[Corgigal]

14. All this above,

plus the dumbest human on earth as president.

[Aristus]

17. I knew it would be a while.

But hearing that they're working on it gives me some hope.

[scheming daemons]

15. Darwinism

The anti-vaxxers will be the victims of their own ignorance.

[Ms. Toad]

18. Nice. Instead of sharing good news about the development of the vaccine

and encouraging people to consider getting it, you turn it into an excuse for name calling.

[Aristus]

19. Are we going to do this again?

Smart people don't have to be encouraged to get vaccinated.

Anyway, a viable vaccine for coronavirus is a while away. So the anti-vaxxers have time to get their 'concerns' straight at the meetings.

[Ms. Toad]

21. Apparently,

When you throw gratuitous insults, expect to be called on them.

[cwydro]

20. Wow.

Ok.

[Hortensis]

22. Within HOURS of gene sequence info, CEPI had funded THREE

separate companies to race to develop a vaccine. (NIH, CDC, CEPI interactive acronyms. )

One sign of the breakneck pace was the announcement on 23 January by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) that it will give three companies a total of $12.5 million to develop 2019-CoV vaccines.

A nonprofit formed in 2016 solely to fund and shepherd the development of new vaccines against emerging infectious diseases, CEPI is trying to have vaccines developed and tested faster than any previous effort, anywhere, ever. “This is what CEPI was created to do,” says CEO Richard Hatchett.

Each of the three efforts that CEPI supports began within hours after Chinese researchers first posted a sequence of 2019-CoV in a public database. That happened on Friday evening, 10 January, in Bethesda, Maryland, home of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Barney Graham, deputy director of NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center, began to analyze the sequence with his team on Saturday morning. The following Monday, Graham discussed his findings with researchers at Moderna, a vaccinemaker. On Tuesday, they signed a deal to collaborate. ...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/scientists-are-moving-record-speed-create-new-coronavirus-vaccines-they-may-come-too

I think this is pretty great effort. The introductory spin was that a vaccine for a brand-new virus may come "too late," and that's of course obvious and unarguable for those who'll have died before it becomes available.

[Aristus]

23. That's wonderful news.

Godspeed to the researchers.

[MicaelS]

24. Never heard of CEPI.

Thanks for educating me.

[Hortensis]

25. :) Read about them before, then forgot. 2019-nCoV is

educating a bunch of people.