Mu. Ask “how does this knowledge actually affect pandemic response”, not what I’d do. I claim personal expertise in neither case.
(If I could set policy we’d have driven R0<<1 at minimal cost (Covid was eradicable, and eliminated at several times in several countries!), had generic-coronavirus vaccine bases and pre-authorized challenge trials if that was infeasible, etc. In the world we’re actually in, my understanding is that research like this feeds in to vaccine design, however far from ideal vaccine policy and delivery might be.)
Then why do you claim knowledge about it having effects?
generic-coronavirus vaccine bases and pre-authorized challenge trials if that was infeasible, etc. In the world we’re actually in, my understanding is that research like this feeds in to vaccine design
There are already lots of different coronaviruses out there in the wild. If you create a generic-coronavirus vaccine that works for all of those in the wild, what do you expect to gain from knowing that it works for a tiny (relative to the existing pool of coronaviruses) portion of new lab-created viruses?
Mu. Ask “how does this knowledge actually affect pandemic response”, not what I’d do. I claim personal expertise in neither case.
(If I could set policy we’d have driven R0<<1 at minimal cost (Covid was eradicable, and eliminated at several times in several countries!), had generic-coronavirus vaccine bases and pre-authorized challenge trials if that was infeasible, etc. In the world we’re actually in, my understanding is that research like this feeds in to vaccine design, however far from ideal vaccine policy and delivery might be.)
Then why do you claim knowledge about it having effects?
There are already lots of different coronaviruses out there in the wild. If you create a generic-coronavirus vaccine that works for all of those in the wild, what do you expect to gain from knowing that it works for a tiny (relative to the existing pool of coronaviruses) portion of new lab-created viruses?