Texas A&M to lead testing of TB vaccine against COVID-19

[Elderberry]

Houston Chronicle by  Todd Ackerman April 28, 2020

Texas A&M to lead testing of TB vaccine against COVID-19

Texas A&M University researchers have begun recruiting health care workers to test whether a widely used tuberculosis vaccine can help in the fight against the coronavirus.

The researchers, who are teaming with Harvard University, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine, say the vaccine won’t prevent people from getting infected but will strengthen the immune system and may diminish the effect of the virus, resulting in less hospitalizations and deaths.

“This could make a huge difference in the next two to three years while the development of a specific vaccine is developed for COVID-19,” Jeffrey Cirillo, a Texas A&M Health Science Center professor of microbial pathogenesis and immunology, said in a news release.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/prognosis/article/Texas-A-M-tuberculosis-coronavirus-vaccine-test-15231819.php

[libertybele]

Good grief. Every medication seems to be being tested against this virus. 

[musiclady]

Good grief. Every medication seems to be being tested against this virus.

I’m glad they’re trying everything.

The sooner the head is chopped off this monster, the better.

[libertybele]

I’m glad they’re trying everything.

The sooner the head is chopped off this monster, the better.

Yes, I agree, but at the same time, there are at least 30 different strains of this monster, which may explain why the hydroxychloroquine +zpack+ zinc worked on some patients, and not others; same with remdesivir and others drugs that have been tried.

IMHO, and I am not a epidemiologist nor do I work in a laboratory, but it does seem that there isn't going to be once vaccine that's going to be suited for all 30 strains -- it's going to be hit or miss.  I also tend to think that for some individuals any vaccine for this virus is going to do more harm than good to them.

[roamer_1]

there are at least 30 different strains of this monster [...]

Which defeats the premise entirely. This is a fast-morphing virus... Vaccine is an impossibility.

Corona is the common cold. no cure will be forthcoming.

[jpsb]

I’m glad they’re trying everything.

#MeToo

lol, impressive team of researchers.

[musiclady]

Which defeats the premise entirely. This is a fast-morphing virus... Vaccine is an impossibility.

Corona is the common cold. no cure will be forthcoming.

Not so “common” for a cold to kill over 200,000 people globally in a couple of months.

This ain’t that.

Never has been.  Never will be.

[roamer_1]

Not so “common” for a cold to kill over 200,000 people globally in a couple of months.

This ain’t that.

Never has been.  Never will be.

Yes, as a matter of fact, it is.

[musiclady]

Yes, I agree, but at the same time, there are at least 30 different strains of this monster, which may explain why the hydroxychloroquine +zpack+ zinc worked on some patients, and not others; same with remdesivir and others drugs that have been tried.

IMHO, and I am not a epidemiologist nor do I work in a laboratory, but it does seem that there isn't going to be once vaccine that's going to be suited for all 30 strains -- it's going to be hit or miss.  I also tend to think that for some individuals any vaccine for this virus is going to do more harm than good to them.

For a tiny minority, any vaccine does harm, but not the vast, vast majority.

If they come up with vaccines that handle even a portion of the strains, that’s a lot less suffering and death.

[Smokin Joe]

Not so “common” for a cold to kill over 200,000 people globally in a couple of months.

This ain’t that.

Never has been.  Never will be.

It isn;t common to graft a SARS sequence into the common cold, either.

A vaccine is unlikely, a treatment is not.

The doctors are trying a lot, but it is rare that anything hits print except for badly crafted applications of hydroxychloroquine, with or without Azithromycin, and without the zinc.

[Smokin Joe]

For a tiny minority, any vaccine does harm, but not the vast, vast majority.

If they come up with vaccines that handle even a portion of the strains, that’s a lot less suffering and death.

As with the flu, yes.

But some don't react well to squalene, to other adjuvants, or to preservatives.

I'd like to see a fresh study of the UV treatment (expose roughly 4-5% of the bloodstream to UV, and let the body make antibodies from the dead virus in the bloodstream.) That, if it works, would work against almost any virus.