Most people likely won't get a coronavirus vaccine until the middle of 2021

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30. I actually agree with you

I think there is actually a good chance that a vaccine could be ready to begin distribution by the end of the year.

This unprecedented time has caused an explosion of funding and research at a time that our medical fields are expanding into some really exciting possibilities.

I think it is well within reason that we could do something that has never been done before under those circumstances.

HOWEVER, there are a couple of problems.

1) There are limitations to the assurance of safety when something like this is accelerated. We might be fairly certain it is safe but we won't know for sure until a few years go by. That is the inherent risk in compressing the time frame. The question would be balancing that potential unknown risk against the risk of the disease we are trying to fight. I think this problem might be compounded by a vaccine that uses new technology mores so than one that uses an old tried and true approach.

2) Relative to number one, there is no credibility of the Government and its institutions to make that determination. And if it is made, we will have no way of knowing whether it is real or not.

Even if a perfect vaccine is developed and distributed in the next six months, I don't give Trump any credit. It is the most basic, obvious answer to throw money at a vaccine so there is no genius in it. In fact, the arrival of a vaccine would make the last six months worse in my mine. Poor leadership means we killed a lot of people because we couldn't hunker down and be patient for it to arrive.