How eager we are to introduce a vaccine against the next threatening illness. I would love to say threatening for humankind but this isn't true. Animals are (on purpose) infected with COVID-19 by humans and many humans are infected and their life isn't in danger at all.
Let's put this straight. Of all registered infected people over 2/3 recovered. By now the most infected people are teenagers till around 20 years old. Those people do not feel sick at all and they all will survive.
In a country of 19 million people, not even 14 people with COVID-19 are on intensive care. Among the elderly, not even 1.6% is infected.
If the largest group cures are not ill and cure this means all those people most likely are immune. Do we need a vaccine? The next vaccine to those 40 many people already receive in their life? Is it worth taking the risk of all those side effects and more autoimmune diseases?
Some people believe it is and that's why the government ordered 15.5 million vaccines. Strangely enough those vaccines we're already ready months ago. At that time we hardly knew anything about this "new" member of the SARS virus.
Some people volunteer as lab rabbits and the British AstraZeneca is happy with it. Don't worry it will not be tested on hundreds of people. This is not the way they work.
Yesterday AstraZeneca announced they temporarily stop testing their vaccine against the coronavirus. One of the test persons became seriously ill (myelitis transverse). A sick testing rabbit is a good reason to stop, think, and investigate what went wrong. If this pharmaceutic developer and producer in Oxford will think it over, investigate, and give up is not very likely most likely the test rabbit will be replaced by someone else (none smoker, healthy, not overweight but a sportsman).
We learned from history (the Mexican flu) a deal is a deal and many countries already ordered millions of vaccines. This vaccine will be sold, many will receive it and most likely the first part getting ill or dropping dead will be swept under the carpet (sorry people you were warned and it was your own free choice).
I wish you all wisdom and a healthy life without side effects and remember if you get ill the pharmaceutical industry will be happy.
Nice post