> I’m not in science, but friends who had colleagues more involved in biological sciences said those fellows were total skeptics that anything like 6-8 months would be possible.
Yes. I have an academic friend in a high-level biotech research role who said a vaccine wouldn't be possible in this timeframe, that we ultimately could only delay the spread but not save people, so to avoid economic harm on top we should let the virus "run its course" and kill however many it's going to kill.
Well this vaccine isn't approved yet, and there are still more testing phases left to go. So they "might be" wrong is more appropriate than "were" wrong.
I also have a lot of safety concerns about something developed this quickly.
Yes. I have an academic friend in a high-level biotech research role who said a vaccine wouldn't be possible in this timeframe, that we ultimately could only delay the spread but not save people, so to avoid economic harm on top we should let the virus "run its course" and kill however many it's going to kill.
They were wrong.