Coming to this pretty late, but I’m curious—does the success of Paxlovid for COVID change your views on this? It took ~21 months from the start of the program to have the drug approved under an EUA. So not as fast as the vaccines, but still relatively fast. Efficacy is pretty amazing at ~90% reduction in severe illness and death (in unvaccinated populations).
Somewhat, but it’s still necessarily slower than vaccines as a route to address pandemics, and in this type of model, they cannot prevent spread and stop diseases, just mitigate outcomes.
Coming to this pretty late, but I’m curious—does the success of Paxlovid for COVID change your views on this? It took ~21 months from the start of the program to have the drug approved under an EUA. So not as fast as the vaccines, but still relatively fast. Efficacy is pretty amazing at ~90% reduction in severe illness and death (in unvaccinated populations).
Somewhat, but it’s still necessarily slower than vaccines as a route to address pandemics, and in this type of model, they cannot prevent spread and stop diseases, just mitigate outcomes.