Specifically, the blood test showed the covid specific IgG is through the roof after the shot, meaning it is both safe and effective. I guess the next step is verifying how long the immunity lasts for.
If the first vaccine is chinese, weird stuff is going to happen in politics and media
Edit: obviously, this is just a post on an internet forum, it's ok if you're skeptical about it, there's no reason you shouldn't be other than my word that it's true. They didn't publish it yet, but I'll let you know when they do. As I said, there are still other steps necessary going forward, people getting positive results in this one trial doesn't mean that a vaccine is coming next week or next month
Honestly I'm just rooting for success of all of the vaccines at this point. They all offer pluses and minuses. The traditional ones like CoronaVac will probably be easier to distribute and manufacture in the global south where technology for making inactivated whole virus vaccines is already there. It takes longer to make them is the downside. mRNA has that cold chain requirement that would be hard to replicate in Africa for example, but they can be manufactured quickly. They also have that booster problem, I worry people will just forget to get their second shot. Janssen is really exciting since its storage requirements are traditional and they don't require a booster it looks like. The original SARS vaccine never made it into people I thought? Even in a phase 1? I think they saw that antibody enhancement problem in animal models when challenge, none of which we have seen with any of the vaccines in trial this time.
We should encourage rollout of any vaccine thats safe and effective. Vaccine nationalism is stupid.
agreed.