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<blockquote data-quote="Winnie53" data-source="post: 2265969" data-attributes="member: 160246"><p>Is it possible Trump is speaking out in opposition to voting with mail-in ballots because he's counting on a vaccine by October to improve his chances of being elected in November? In Washington state, <em>"October 16 Start of 18-day voting period (through Election Day). Ballots are mailed out and Accessible Voting Units (AVUs) are available at voting centers." </em></p><p></p><p>An excerpt from this article... </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Doubts greet $1.2 billion bet by United States on a coronavirus vaccine by October </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/doubts-greet-12-billion-bet-united-states-coronavirus-vaccine-october" target="_blank">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/doubts-greet-12-billion-bet-united-states-coronavirus-vaccine-october</a></span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pediatrician Paul Offit, a vaccine researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, questions whether the United States can even complete a 30,000-person trial in this timeframe. “I cannot imagine how this can be done within six months,” says Offit, who helped develop a rotavirus vaccine tested in an efficacy trial that lasted four years. “I think if it happened in nine months that would be remarkably fast.”</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Offit, who wrote <a href="http://paul-offit.com/booksby/the-cutter-incident/" target="_blank">a book</a> about an infamous 1955 manufacturing accident of a polio vaccine that crippled hundreds of children, worries that the impending U.S. presidential election is driving Warp Speed to set unrealistic deadlines. “The thing that really upsets me is I’m trying to think what's the month after October? Oh, right, November,” says Offit. “I think the current administration may say, ‘This is our October surprise, this is this is my gift to this country, look what we did.’” Offit sits on a committee that is organizing COVID-19 vaccine trials in the United States--the National Institutes of Health’s public-private <a href="https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/activ" target="_blank">Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines</a>—and says members were not consulted about BARDA’s investment or the proposed clinical trial. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Offit’s also concerned that racing forward could lead to harm—side effects of vaccines often are detected only when a candidate moves from thousands to millions of people—or a mediocre vaccine. It could also fuel vaccine skepticism. “You just have to worry that something bad could happen, and there’s fragile vaccine confidence in this country right now.”</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Winnie53, post: 2265969, member: 160246"] Is it possible Trump is speaking out in opposition to voting with mail-in ballots because he's counting on a vaccine by October to improve his chances of being elected in November? In Washington state, [I]"October 16 Start of 18-day voting period (through Election Day). Ballots are mailed out and Accessible Voting Units (AVUs) are available at voting centers." [/I] An excerpt from this article... [SIZE=6][B]Doubts greet $1.2 billion bet by United States on a coronavirus vaccine by October [/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][URL]https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/doubts-greet-12-billion-bet-united-states-coronavirus-vaccine-october[/URL][/SIZE] [INDENT][I]Pediatrician Paul Offit, a vaccine researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, questions whether the United States can even complete a 30,000-person trial in this timeframe. “I cannot imagine how this can be done within six months,” says Offit, who helped develop a rotavirus vaccine tested in an efficacy trial that lasted four years. “I think if it happened in nine months that would be remarkably fast.” Offit, who wrote [URL='http://paul-offit.com/booksby/the-cutter-incident/']a book[/URL] about an infamous 1955 manufacturing accident of a polio vaccine that crippled hundreds of children, worries that the impending U.S. presidential election is driving Warp Speed to set unrealistic deadlines. “The thing that really upsets me is I’m trying to think what's the month after October? Oh, right, November,” says Offit. “I think the current administration may say, ‘This is our October surprise, this is this is my gift to this country, look what we did.’” Offit sits on a committee that is organizing COVID-19 vaccine trials in the United States--the National Institutes of Health’s public-private [URL='https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/activ']Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines[/URL]—and says members were not consulted about BARDA’s investment or the proposed clinical trial. Offit’s also concerned that racing forward could lead to harm—side effects of vaccines often are detected only when a candidate moves from thousands to millions of people—or a mediocre vaccine. It could also fuel vaccine skepticism. “You just have to worry that something bad could happen, and there’s fragile vaccine confidence in this country right now.”[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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