Coronavirus Vaccine Can Prevent 90% Getting Covid-19

[Ellipsis]

Looks promising ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54873105

Would you take it yet?

[LadyCG]

I would be first in the queue, not only as an NHS worker, but as someone with common sense.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes, in a heartbeat

[Sqad]

Yes, I would for the reasons given by LadyC above.

[ichkeria]

This is really bad timing for Donald Trump :-)

I would take it like a shot (so to speak) but only after other more deserving people

[Ellipsis]

I too would take it as soon as possible.

Others seem concerned about a kind of "I Am Legend" scenario (maybe not quite going as far as turning the whole world into zombies ...). If you're an anti-vaxxer then any vaccine is bad, let alone a brand new one.

[Ken4155]

I think i'll wait until the length of time immunity is guaranteed before getting on what would be a long, long waiting list. Bit pointless having the jab if it's shelf life is just a few months, With just 1.3 billion vaccines forecast to be available by end of 2021, it's not as if we will be able to receive repeat vaccinations every 4 or 5 months.

[Chinajan]

Another question for the science/medical bods:

In the [highly unlikely] scenario where everyone was protected for a 'few months' would the virus then die out or mutate since it would no longer be able to find any hosts?

[Khandro]

China, I think it's already mutated, hence the slaughter of millions of mink.
On that subject the lives of a caged mink must have been so deplorable that I'm glad they are out of it

[Sqad]

China....Good point, the virus could mutate but that would not be the fault of the vaccine.
If it mutated, the vaccine would be useless.
Yes, without mutation and 100% vaccination, the virus would diminish and finally disappear.

[ichkeria]

Viruses almost never just disappear.
They are likely to keep infecting people, just on a smaller scale.
Not everyone needs, or in reality of course will receive, the vaccine for it to stop spreading exponentially.
This one could mutate into something more infectious - to help it "survive". Or it might go the other way and become a less serious health risk.
I think a problem with this one is that it infects a host and does its worst long before we know there's anything wrong and in many cases leaves no obvious calling card at all. That makes it very difficult to track (especially when we only test people with symptoms!). That also sort of makes it a virus that for once doesn't "care" if you die from it, because it will have long since ceased needing you.

[tiggerblue10]

Yes, I'm up for it.

[ichkeria]

I wasn't contradicting Sqad, by the way, whose comment I hadn't seen.
It's just that the scenario he mentions would be most unlikely

[Pooka1950]

I've got my sleeve rolled up ready for it. Bring it on!

[Sqad]

Ich.....no big deal,I don't mind other opinions.

[Khandro]

Somewhere behind the cunning of these viruses is an intelligence working hard to destroy us. In Hinduism she is called Kali, the goddess of time, doomsday, and death, or "The Black Goddess".

In the bible it's good & evil, God & the Devil....... but I deviate.

[Ellipsis]

I guess in that case it would be more like a flu jab.

"They" make the best guess every year of the strain that's going to break out, and "we" have a yearly jab to counteract it.

[Zacs-Master]

'"They" make the best guess every year of the strain that's going to break out,'

That's not strictly true. A committee meets to decide which of the many worldwide strains of flu are to be combatted each year. The flu jab is a cocktail of vaccines.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm

[Atheist]

Khandro;
There's no more an intelligence behind it than there is an intelligence behind the way that snow piles up in the wind and that a tossed coin comes up heads half the time. I hope you were joking.

[iluvmargie]

Possibly.

[dave50]

I would hope that those who stubbornly refuse to take it, because there will be some, don't expect special treatment to keep them safe.