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SneakyWino 81 points ago +84 / -3

I'm calling fake news on this. Trump knows the cure - hydroxychloroquine or UV light. There is zero need for a vaccine.

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daty_dato 37 points ago +39 / -2

And likely Zero chance of an effective vaccine in any case.

Still waiting for someone to show me evidence of a corona-virus vaccine that works.

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MAGA_MEXICAN_CHILI 4 points ago +4 / -0

They are about 9 month's away from approval. If you need to be vaccinated. Make sure to get that one.

Other than that, let the leftist take this...since they are unable to know what 'personal space is'.

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Deplorabledeepstate 1 point ago +1 / -0

Respitory viruses will be very difficult to vaccinate against. That's why SARs and H1N1 don't have one.

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TenScoops 18 points ago +20 / -2

also vitamine C in large doses and vitamine D(onald)

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Long_time_lurker 2 points ago +9 / -7

Those are treatments when you're already sick. Ideally, enough people willingly get vaccinated so those who cannot or do not wish to never need to.

Not all viruses are equal, we don't know if we'll have a vaccine or not until it's tested because there's a lot that can make a vaccine not work. HIV is hard to vaccinate against because it infects the very cells that make up the immune response and it can hide in places the immune system can't get to. When you activate the immune system to suppress it, you're giving it a lot of targets that it can use to make more of the damned virus. That's why we're stuck with anti-viral treatments to suppress the viruses spread, rather than to get the immune system to fight it.

Also, there is at least one herpes vaccine, namely the one for shingles (herpes zoster). So you'll have to qualify things a bit more if you want to say that.

Nobody knows if these vaccines will pan out until they're tested, though, that much is true. The damnable thing is that a lot of vaccines don't pan out, but we've got a bunch of different vaccines being tested, so hopefully one of them will pull through.

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Causalgia 15 points ago +16 / -1

The first herpes zoster vaccine had about a 50% failure rate, so a second one was developed and marketed. That one has a significant risk of causing an active case of shingles. Let's hope the race to market a Corona vaccine doesn't work as well as that.

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tribeless 2 points ago +4 / -2

So if gates wants more people like me is mine going to be laced with fertility drugs?

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RedditRedactionTeam 4 points ago +5 / -1

Incorrect. Hydroxychloroquine is also prophylactic for COVID-19.