MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's health minister is preparing a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus for October, local news agencies reported on Saturday, after a vaccine completed clinical trials.
Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said the Gamaleya Institute, a state research facility in Moscow, had completed clinical trials of the vaccine and paperwork is being prepared to register it, Interfax news agency reported.
He said doctors and teachers would be the first to be vaccinated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2020, @11:25PM (3 children)
And by 2004 no one really cared about a SARS vaccine anymore.
Predict the same to happen with Covid-19; by November 3rd we can quit fucking around and let herd immunity do its job.
(Score: 2) by drussell on Wednesday August 05 2020, @04:34AM (2 children)
Most typical coronavirus recoveries provide only 3-6 months of immunity to the same/very similar strain....
You want this thing running rampant through the population forever?!
Lifelong effects for many, even after "recovery" even if you don't die?
Are you insane? (or just an asshat?)
Perhaps both?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2020, @06:51AM
I'm just not so naive to think we will have an effective treatment any time soon. Although you're free to keep praying for your common cold vaccine to come.
Lifelong effects that have what kind of impact? Most of the world lives on normally with the yearly upper respiratory tract infections, even though it would be possible to identify lesions in the lung.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday August 05 2020, @11:19PM
Do coronavirus recoveries provide only 3 to 6 months of any immunity at all, or just 3 to 6 months of antibodies followed by longer lasting immunity in the T and B cells?