[Rotary] Subject: Covid 19 Vaccine

[John Cottle]

There are MANY vaccines in development around the world, around 130 when I
last checked.  One is already being field tested in Russia, prior to having
compled Phase 3 trials.  By early next year Russia will either proudly
announce a first, or sweep another sad failure under the rug.  Such is the
progress of things in totalitarian systems.  I find it interesting that
China is testing theirs in the UAE, not on their own citizens.

When a vaccine is approved by the FDA, it will go to military and essential
workers first, especially health care workers and self-appointed important
government officials.  I don't expect for the vaccine to be available for
sale for a long time.  I would be extremely wary of one not FDA
approved, and moderately skeptical of one given FDA accelerated approval.
Every few years an FDA approved item is withdrawn for various reasons.

Advice from one of my trainers in med school, "Don't be the first to
embrace something new, but don't be the last either."

Science skeptic,
John Cottle



On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM Alarcon Ins via Rotary <rotary at lists.mcn.org>
wrote:

> That could be an option but until there is a proven one we are all waiting
> impatiently.
>
>
> Ray Alarcon
> Alarcon Ins Agency
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>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jeffry Stubbs via Rotary <rotary at lists.mcn.org>
> Date: 8/23/20 9:29 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: rotary at lists.mcn.org, Dean Watson <watsondmw at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Rotary] Subject: Covid 19 Vaccine
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just got a message from my son, who heads a school in Hangzhou, China,
> saying an inactivated Covid-19 vaccine developed in China is now undergoing
> phase 3 trials in the UAE, and could be available for mass distribution by
> end of December. Limited quantities are now being made available to front
> line workers even though the vaccine has not been completely tested. A
> course of two injections is estimated to cost $144.
>
> This is of course good news for all of us, and suggests that here in the
> US a vaccine may not be beyond reach as we head into 2021.
>
> An idea for our Covid-19 fund: free inoculations when they become
> available and if they are not provided free to all, for those who lack
> health insurance or the means to purchase the injections.
>
> Jeff Stubbs
> P.O. Box 1360 Mendocino, CA 95460
> Home phone 707-937-6026
> I phone 707-536-6190
> Skype phone 707-397-5620
> Skype name jeffrystubbs
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