Donald has it sorted Toggle top menu covid-19 Research Education News & Views Campaigns Archive For authors Hosted https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3478 (Published 04 September 2020)Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3478 Read our latest coverage of the coronavirus outbreak Article Metrics Responses Janice Hopkins Tanne Author affiliations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has told public health departments in all 50 US states and five large cities to get ready to distribute a covid-19 vaccine by 1 November, two days before the US presidential election on 3 November. President Donald Trump said on 27 August during the Republican convention that a vaccine might well be ready by the end of October. On the same day Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, sent the letter alerting public health departments.12 Health and human services secretar1y Alex Azar said in a television interview, “It has nothing to do with elections. This has to do with delivering safe, effective vaccines to the American people as quickly as possible and saving people’s lives.”3 Several public health experts, including Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, previously said that it was more likely that a vaccine would be available in 2021. However, Fauci said on 1 September that a vaccine might be available earlier if the independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board decides that the ongoing clinical trials show overwhelmingly positive results.4 On 3 September Moncef Slaoui, the White House’s chief vaccine programme adviser, said it was “extremely unlikely but not impossible” that a vaccine would be available by late October.5 McKesson Corporation will distribute the vaccines under a contract with CDC. Two vaccines will be available, referred to as A and B, which seem to be those being developed by Pfizer and Moderna. Both must be kept at very low temperatures and must be administered in two doses about a month apart. They would be given first to healthcare workers, including those in nursing homes, other essential workers, and national security employees. Other early recipients would be people over 65, Native Americans, racial and ethnic minorities, and people in prisons.3 Distribution and administration of millions of vaccine doses create considerable logistic challenges for city and state health departments that have been underfunded for years. Health departments would need to set up warehouses to store the vaccines and refrigeration systems to keep them extremely cold, hire additional workers to administer the vaccines, acquire personal protective equipment for the workers, purchase syringes, and establish systems to record who received what vaccine and when.6 Only about half of Americans have said they are willing to get a covid-19 vaccine and there is considerable anti-vaccination sentiment. Many Americans don’t trust the US government or believe what it is telling them about covid-19, particularly as government messages have changed and Trump has repeatedly said the virus would “just disappear” and he does not wear a mask himself.
I am not an anti-vaxxer by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever but I wouldn't be having that, god knows what's in it! (Probably nothing to be honest, it'll just be a placebo I imagine and therefore not dangerous but still...). The timing is remarkable, what a stroke of luck for him.
Likewise, not a chance, maybe in 20 odd years when I'm well into my 70s and my immune system is not so good, oh and its proven to be safe
When your immune system is no good a vaccine doesn't work. There is a huge misconception of what a vaccine actually does. It does not fight infection. It stimulates your immune system to fight infection. If your immune system is shot, there is nothing to stimulate, and it doesn't work.
Fair one, should have said when I'm older and my immune system isn't what it was, I suppose thats why anyone over a certain age are encouraged to get one, to give them a leg up ?
I have just watched the best of the week of James Cordens chat show that was on Sky 1 last night and it is worth watching on catch up as he interviews Bill Gates. Gates said between 70-80 percent of the world will need two vaccines to get rid of covid so we need the capacity for ten billion doses.
I'm the same, I aint anti vaccine, just anti vaccine thats not been trialed for long enough, with the anti vaccine folk they lose the high ground when they tell us not ro have it because of health reasons but because they are going to micro chip us, probably from the same cut of meat that says the earth is flat
