Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[amybrickwallace]

I wish Variety, The Hollywood Reporter or Deadline would do an in-depth, soaps-only article on the vaccine dilemma. It would make much better reading that than what SOD has become in recent years.

[amybrickwallace]

I have no words.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/allen-west-has-covid-symptoms-takes-hydrochloroquine-and-ivermectin

[DramatistDreamer]

Moderna, which it's been established, has the most effective vaccine, as it offers a high level of protection over the longest period of time, is effectively pricing out low-income and middle-income countries, in favor of the highest bidders, even though they took nearly $1 million dollars from a non-profit with the promise to deliver vaccine equity.

Moderna, racing for profits, keeps jabs out of reach of poor

[amybrickwallace]

I hope Dolly lets them have it. She gave them a million dollars to fund their vaccine because she wanted to help people and not be yet another example of corporate greed.

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[Soaplovers]

Sad that the most effective of the vaccines is out of reach...when had the lower income countries been vaccinated...the pandemic might have made some headway to being over.

 

[amybrickwallace]

It's mind-numbing, isn't it? I waver between being angry, sad and just numb.

[DRW50]

 

[janea4old]

Six months ago, I had my choice of Moderna or Pfizer.  I chose Moderna because of Dolly and the fact that a university was helping with the research, so I figured that Moderna would be more ethical than Pfizer.

and yeah I hope Dolly lets them have it.

[amybrickwallace]

I didn't get a choice, but I got Pfizer when it was my turn. Everyone else I know outside of work got Moderna.

[Soaplovers]

Merck submitting for EUA for the pill form treatment.

This will hopefully keep people at high risk out of the hospital.  Vaccines are only 1 tool, not the only one.

Two of my relatives got Moderna, still got bad cases (they had transplants and had to take immune suppression medications).

So hopefully this Merck pill can help people that didn't get protections from the vaccine.

Also, Fauci should not speaking on all this...the unvaxxed despise him..and he is shady.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/merck-asks-us-fda-authorize-100229068.html

[janea4old]

Both Pfizer and Moderna were offered when it was my turn, so I had a choice, so I chose Moderna. But if Pfizer was the only one offered when it was my turn, I totally would have taken the Pfizer, gratefully.  Definitely supporting getting vaxxed as soon as one can.

[dragonflies]

 

[DramatistDreamer]

Originally, I had planned for Moderna (not because of Dolly but because of the epidemiologist whose work I had been reading about who was part of the team that had developed the Moderns vaccine) but left it open for whatever 2 dose vaccine was available.

I went into it knowing that none of these pharmaceutical companies are particularly ethical, but the same can be said of most large corporations and I knew, similar to when I take a multivitamin (supplements, which, by the way are the least regulated industry in the U.S.) or a pain reliever, I would just have to trust the science behind the product. I didn't intend to leave myself vulnerable if I could help matters and that involved getting vaccinated.

My one recurring question is, why didn't one of these companies formulate the COVID-19 vaccine in a similar fashion to the flu vaccine, which can quickly be adjusted to variants and different strains?  I guess they figured that they wouldn't have to deal with this many variants?

[amybrickwallace]

They probably were in such a hurry to get the vaccines out asap that maybe they didn't have time to do that.

[DramatistDreamer]

I don't think that's it. This mRNA technology has been in the works for nearly twenty years now. Money and politics are more likely to figure into these decisions.