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About the chaotic research of c19
Posted by: deckeda
Date: April 16, 2020 07:19AM
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the massive effort is disorganized and scattershot, harming its prospects for success, according to multiple researchers and health experts. Researchers working around-the-clock describe a lack of a centralized national strategy, overlapping efforts, an array of small-scale trials that will not lead to definitive answers and no standards for how to prioritize efforts, what data to collect or how to share it to get to answers faster.
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Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest biomedical research agency, acknowledged researchers’ frustrations but said in an interview Wednesday he has been working behind the scenes to launch an unprecedented public-private partnership to address the problems. He said the framework involves top pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, domestic and international government agencies including the European Medicines Agency, and academic research centers.
Collins said the month-long discussions have been kept under wraps to ensure buy-in for an approach likely to require sacrifices of personal recognition, scientific credit and profit — a centralized decision, for example, not to proceed with tests of one company’s drug in order to move faster on a competitor’s.
Re: About the chaotic research of c19
Posted by: neophyte
Date: April 16, 2020 10:52AM
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Posted by: cbelt3
Date: April 16, 2020 11:15AM
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Re: About the chaotic research of c19
Posted by: Diana
Date: April 16, 2020 12:40PM
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neophyte
The usual channels for funding most biomedical research involve peer-reviewing of research proposals/protocols. This review takes time. I think the present helter-skelter approach revolves around who can get money NOW to fund the research, not whose ideas seem likely to be fruitful. Pharma companies fund their own, with potential profit being a prime motivator. Collins has a tough row to hoe.
Re: About the chaotic research of c19
Posted by: deckeda
Date: April 16, 2020 12:46PM
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Posted by: rjmacs
Date: April 16, 2020 12:55PM
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Re: About the chaotic research of c19
Posted by: Diana
Date: April 16, 2020 12:57PM
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deckeda
I imagine the situation is why there are groups on different tracks. Some are looking at the RNA solution (quicker/riskier, if it works) and others are looking at the traditional vaccine approach (dead or inactive virus samples) which take much longer but have a proven record of success and low cost.
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Posted by: Ca Bob
Date: April 16, 2020 10:01PM
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Posted by: RgrF
Date: April 16, 2020 10:49PM
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Re: About the chaotic research of c19
Posted by: deckeda
Date: April 17, 2020 09:19PM
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