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RE: Vaccine science is incredibly complex, and that makes mis-information way too easily effective to a disinterested or uninformed audience
I think that pharmaceutical companies have a lot of work to do, the virus still needs to be studied more, scientists should focus more on finding a definitive solution, but if they do, these companies would lose their income and they are quite a lot, I don't want to think badly, but this virus is sometimes more of a business than anything else
This is a risk in every industry for and product. I think that's why consumer advocate groups, and regulatory protocols exist. Like big oil, big tech, etc... big pharma certainly gives us reasons to be wary. I'm not sure that makes it automatically more of just a business purely for profit rather than a business offering a valuable good for profit, etc.
I think the current best science indicates that there is probably no solution that will eradicate the SARS-COV-2 virus, but they have developed extremely effective vaccines, which is a result of scientists being focused on finding a solution.
Are you suggesting that scientists are actually capable in a situation like this of doing just the right amount of research and just the right kind of drug development to produce a partially effective solution in order to prolong this experience? Even if they could do that (technically, I think they could... But they'd need to figure out how to get it passed all of the regulatory checks*), are you suggesting that thousands of scientists all over the world would be willing to do such a thing to the benefit of their employer at individual risk?
*Additional note:
As a business, each lab is competing against every other lab. Especially if their approach is just as a business (i.e. to profit themselves), there would be no incentive to sabotage their own work.
Hello @primevaldad, I do not suggest anything, but the pandemic has definitely helped the pharmaceutical industries to solve their financial problems, it is well known that big problems bring excellent solutions, the point is that many of us have not been vaccinated and have no problems, the Vaccines are experimental, the day will come when this virus circulates like a flu and the solution is something simpler than a vaccine.
So what solution should scientists focus on?
The current virus has been a challenge for scientists, they have created vaccines, now there are pills and more treatments will come, but if I were a scientist what I would do would be to study people who have died from the virus, so the virus would not be unknown, Then create a treatment that attacks the virus and its variants, it is a virus that will continue to mutate, so you have to attack it in the place that hurts the most, so to speak, the variants, and it will become a flu with its respective solutions.
I like to chat about it, we should sit down for coffee while we talk :)
Indeed. I'd be happy to. I love coffee.
And learning through discussion.
What you describe isn't far off from what I've read has been a big part of the research and development process for years. One reason vaccines were so quickly developed was that scientists had been working on the coronavirus family ever since the SARS. I don't think they're not doing what you think they should be doing.