COVID-19 and the Unraveling of Experimental Medicine - Part I
Author(s) -
K. E. Thorp,
James A. Thorp
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the gazette of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2692-4374
DOI - 10.46766/thegms.pubheal.22012306
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , herd immunity , virology , medicine , political science , outbreak , vaccination , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology
Two years into the pandemic, with the number of deaths over five million globally and vaccine-resistant variants continuing to multiply, scientists are in the midst of the most dangerous and ill-conceived experiment in the history of medicine. Pinning their hopes on the success of new mRNA-based vaccines that stretch all conventional notions of a vaccine, and which were hastily released without adequate efficacy and safety trials, they seek to take the wind out of the sails of a full-blown pandemic without fully understanding either the means by which individuals develop resistance to the coronavirus or by which herd immunity is attained.
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