Biotech Values

[vinmantoo]

There is a reason why it usually takes about ten years and not six months to develop and test a new vaccine.

Yeah, because we didn't have mRNA based vaccine nor do we usually have such detailed knowledge of the pathogen entry mechanism as we did for Covid-19. Second, there usually isn't a massive worldwide effort to develop a new vaccine.

On efficacy, would these have been even approved for EUA if it was known that they would lose close to half of their efficacy in less than six months?

Vaccine efficacy didn't drop to 50% efficacy. The decrease we are seeing is due to the rise of the delta variant not some inherent weakness in of the vaccines.

Even now, there is no good information on how often boosters may be needed.

So what?

And yes you are absolutely right Jbog there is no long term data on safety. So why not make them mandatory for every man, woman, and child in America?

There is no long term safety data on each new influenza vaccine that is given out each year either. There was also no long term safety data for polio and small pox vaccines but there were given out nationally because the risk is far worse with the disease. The same is true for Covid-19. By the way, the Covid vaccines aren't approved for children and nobody is being mandated to take the Covid vaccines.