Will we get a coronavirus vaccine before the 2020 election? Unlikely.

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Will we have a coronavirus vaccine before the Nov. 3 general election? President Donald Trump and vaccine developer Pfizer seem to think so, but the World Health Organization disagrees. WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a United Nations briefing in Geneva, "we are really not expecting to see widespread vaccination until the middle of next year." So, why has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified all 50 states and several large US cities to be ready to distribute a vaccine by late October? The answer, some say, comes down to politics.

Political pressure to approve a vaccine before Election Day has become so great, it's prompted nine of the most prominent biopharmaceutical companies currently working on a COVID-19 vaccine to sign a letter pledging to fully vet their experimental drugs before asking for government approval. And while that may seem like a foregone conclusion, Russia has already approved a vaccine way before it's been thoroughly tested, and China has started administering a vaccine to military and healthcare workers despite incomplete testing.

Currently, there are seven vaccine candidates being tested in the US, three of which are nearing the final stages needed for Food and Drug Administration approval. Considering SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- was only discovered eight months ago, the progress is actually happening at a faster clip than ever before in the history of infectious disease, despite Trump's claim that vaccine development is being intentionally stifled (vaccines take, on average, about 10.7 years to develop).

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So Trump will likely push a quack cure in hope of reelection.

[polmaven]

1. We will be TOLD so.

We will get what the trumpster calls a vaccine. And I'm sure many of his followers will believe him so they will vote for him.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. There is pretty much no way on god's green earth that a vaccine

will be available that soon. The early testing is still going on. Even if any of those being tested truly are safe and effective, how long do you suppose it will take to make the nearly 700 million doses needed to vaccinate everyone in the country with the two doses that will apparently be needed?

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the vaccine now being used in China results in some bad stuff, rather like the swine flu vaccine fiasco in this country in 1976.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Not one you would want to put in your body.

Barr's body, Turtleman's body or the orange ones body but not yours.

[kurtcagle]

4. Fine: Give Trump the first dose

Fauci can officiate, make sure he actually gets the injection.

I suspect that short of this, no one will have ANY interest in taking it, particularly his anti-science, antivaxxer base.

[Thekaspervote]

5. No!