The 87-year-old doctor who invented the rubella vaccine now working to fight the coronavirus

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Dr. Stanley Plotkin invented the rubella vaccine at the Wistar Institute, which is credited with eradicating the disease in the U.S. in 1964. He is now consulting for pharmaceutical companies on vaccine development to halt the COVID-19 pandemic.

How has vaccine-creation technology changed since the '60s?

It happened for a reason, which would not be repeated today. One of the competing vaccines was actually developed at the licensing authority, a branch of the. For a pharmaceutical manufacturer, that was very appealing, because it meant that they would get a license for the vaccine because they'd be working with the licensing authority.

The FDA does not develop vaccines [anymore]. [Plus], there are so many more ways to develop vaccines that you have multiple candidates, which is great. For two reasons — one, because until you have large-scale use of a vaccine, you don't know everything about it; you don't know for sure whether your expectations about the vaccine are right. It may be that something you thought was not as good turns out to be better than the one that you thought was the best. It's only in use that you really can make that judgment.

 

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Cue the anti vaxxers saying he's trying to zombify the world and take over

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Full of energy and committed to serve the society. I join the world community to salute the noble person and we are really proud of him. Many will learn lesson for his dedication.

this is awesome. please can we ensure that the anti vaxxer crew do not get access to the covid19 vaccine once it it developed. they can use their essential herb remedies and potions.

To clarify: He's now working on a vaccine for corona. Reacting to the current crisis. As I've said over and over and over: you cannot prepare for a specific pandemic. But the 'reactions' of certain political figures (Trump) are being criticized by many.

Torture of the 1%, their children, pets, elderly, etc gonna be necessary to develop a cure or we can just make hashtags or something

Best of luck

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Respect!

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Hope he is working from home 😇😷😇

Put a cigar in his mouth and he’s Red Auerbach

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