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Looking at the risks and the steps to mitigate them sheds light on some of the factors behind the long, expensive process. Bernard Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine at Harvard University. “The basic history lesson when it comes to vaccines and immunization is that there always has been a risk and there always will be a risk,” says David S. That’s by design: the design of human biology and procedures built to minimize harm. Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group. “From the creation of the idea to having a marketable vaccine is usually seven to 10 years or more, and about 1 billion U.S. Yet bringing a vaccine from lab to public deployment proceeds at a glacial pace, and it’s a costly expedition. “We are moving as fast as humanly possible,” says research scientist Brooke Fiala during a break from working on a vaccine at the University of Washington’s (UW) Institute for Protein Design.

Such tragic errors from inoculations against disease - this one from the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, MD, in the 1950s, one of the most successful immunizations in history - help to explain why an anxious world must wait up to two years for a vaccination to shield people from the potentially fatal novel coronavirus.

Dozens more children get stricken by the paralysis that the vaccine was designed to prevent, as do over 100 other people who pick up the virus from the inoculated children. Some 40,000 inoculated children contract a mild form of the disease. Jonas Salk holds two bottles of a culture used to grow polio vaccines in 1955.Įxcept for those who get one of the 120,000 doses that accidentally contain the live virus.