COVID-19: New vaccine in development has 'insurance' against coronavirus mutations
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-new-vaccine-in-development-has-insurance-against-virus-mutations-12217119
I hate the 20:20 hindsight mongers, I'm not sure if what is said here isn't more self-promotion than beneficial. What are we to do wait until we have absolutely all permutations
Professor Lindy Durrant, an immunologist at the university and head of the spin-off company ScanCell, said the next generation of vaccines needs to be better prepared to tackle the virus as it "learns" to evade the immune system.
"What has happened was predictable," she exclusively told Sky News.
"We have the advantage of learning from the inadequacies of the first generation of vaccines to make the second generation better."
For me it is more about promotion of the spin-off company.
What she is effectively saying is we shouldn't have bothered with the development and push to production until we have all of our ducks in a row as such. We would still be waiting right now and not have vaccinated fifteen million of at risk groups.
Oh, I had my first Covid-19 vaccination the Saturday before last.
Would I rather have waited until all possible contingencies were in place, absolutely not, plonker.
