Why can We Make Vaccines for Some Viruses & Not Others & Why Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Be Successful?

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If you were born in the United States in 1900 you had about a 1 in 3 chance of dying from an infectious disease. If you were one of the unlucky third, 40% of you would die before the age of 5. In fact, the top three causes of death were infectious disease at this time- namely, pneumonia and flu, tuberculosis, and diarrhea/enteritis. Fast forward to today and you’ll normally only find 1 infectious disease in the top 10 causes of death in the United States- Influenza & pneumonia at number 8.

For the curious about the full list here, it is: #1- Heart disease (647,000 deaths annually in the U.S. or 1 in 4 deaths, or about 17 million people dying of this per year world wide), #2- Cancer (about 600,000 deaths in the U.S. or, again, about 1 in 4 and an estimated 10 million deaths per year worldwide… so like, once we resolve the covid problem, can we all collectively agree to panic and globally throw extra trillions at more research for these top two? Because, just saying, just because it’s familiar doesn’t mean we should accept it… If half of us are destined to die this way, best to die trying not to.) In any event, rounding out the rest of the top 10 we have- #3- Accidents (170K people per year in the U.S.), #4- Chronic respiratory diseases (160K people), #5- Stroke (146K), #6- Alzheimer’s (121K), #7- Diabetes (83K), #8- Influenza pneumonia (55K), #9- Kidney Disease (50K), and #10- Suicide (47K).

No anti-vaccinator today is worried about their children getting things like small-pox or polio thanks to vaccines, and child mortality rates reflect that. Sadly on the other side, child mortality rates also reflect that in regions of the world where people don’t have access to such medical miracles. For further reference here, smallpox, a disease that’s been around for over 2000 years, was completely eradicated from the wild in 1980! Before that, however, in the 20th century alone- a time when a vaccine had long existed- it still killed off an estimated half a billion people before humanity drop-kicked it in the gonads because our scientists are kind of awesome sometimes.

Given that for most of human history you could expect at least one, and very likely more, of your children to die before they reached adulthood, often from such rampant diseases, and today losing a child is relatively rare in the developed world- not to mention the many, many millions of adults who get to keep on keeping on because of vaccines- these miracles of medicine are collectively thought to be one of the greatest achievements in human history.
This might all have you wondering, if we can create vaccines for everything from Chickenpox to Tetanus, why, with the obscene amounts of money and brain power leveled at viruses like HIV, can’t we make a vaccine for these banes of human existence? And why despite such failures is there reasonable confidence that at some point in the not too distant future we’ll have a vaccine for covid-19?
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