No, it is not the
Carona virus but the link below (the history of vaccines) does show how
difficult it was to land on an
effective vaccine and how long it took to perfect it. The disease was
polio which showed up here in 1894. Early vaccine trials did
not begin until 1935. This shows one how long it took to develop the
correct vaccine for a disease as it went through a number of trials and
tribulations. Polio cases surged in 1952 and early vaccine tests began
then. I remember the epidemic of 1954 and remember well iron lungs and
rocking beds lined up in hospital corridors there to help those who
suffered the bulbar form of polio making breathing on one's own
impossible. Vaccine tests began then and the first vaccine trial emerged
in 1955. It suffered a set back, though, as some children had suffered
paralysis and even died after receiving the vaccine. In 1957 the oral
polio vaccine was tested to mitigate IPV (inactive polio vaccine)
transmission of the disease. Today the CDC recommends that children
get four doses of IPV polio vaccine at 2 months old, at 4 months old,
6-18 months old and at 4-6 years old. It took many years and experience
with the poliomyelitis virus to arrive at an efficacious protocol.
The goal of eradicating polio from the face of the earth
still lives as primitive fear, religious superstition, war and other social upheavals prevent the complete
eradication of the disease. Even now if
there are pockets of world wide failure to vaccinate a nation's populace it will mean the virus will return.
No
one should expect and Dr. Fauci has said a Carona vaccine is a year or a
year and a half away from human testing. A vaccine would not be made
available to the public unless it is deemed safe through vigorous
testing protocols. The first ethical rule of medical doctors is first
do no harm. As seen with polio much can go wrong if there is further
proliferation of the disease by the very vaccine that is supposed to
protect against it. In the mean time the public should follow the
advice of seasoned medical experts in the field of immunology and
epidemiology who have vast experience all over the world in the
phenomena of viral disease transmission. One should dismiss in no
uncertain terms the advice given out by laymen, charlatans looking to
make a fast illegal buck or an unethical mendacious president looking to
win the next election.
To
put the American and, indeed, the world population at risk of
escalating the numbers of dead into the hundreds of thousands or even
millions by ordering the nation back to work too soon risking the spread
of this tenacious virus even more. The only advice the public should
accept is that of Dr. Fauci and other experienced infectious disease
specialists and experts. To advocate for anything else would be
unconscionable and even tantamount to murder!
