So when did testing begin for COVID 19? What did they know to test for? Why haven't other vaccines come out for other COVID strains? Why do they want 12 year olds and above to get it? Why is there commercials all over the place shoving their shitty 90% vaccine down my throat?
All good questions. Let's start with the latter first...why do you call it "crappy"? When your parents or guardians got all of your vaccines when you were born and growing up, did they call them crappy? The reason they feel the vaccines are safe is because they are using the same approach other vaccines have used for the last 50 years. They are not trying to "kill" the virus like one would kill a cancer cell with chemo, the process is very different.
It's like people who develop new power plants for cars. They have the basics, fuel, spark, and air. They also have a general design. But someone may tweak a carburetor and giving the car an increased horsepower. They didn't reinvent the wheel, they modify some things.
The virus attempts to connect with a human cell, and the virus has "tentacles". Think of the vaccine as putting boxing gloves or Vaseline on the end of the tentacles so they cannot attach to anything. They aren't injecting anything in the body to kill anything, they are simply trying to keep them from making a connection. If they don't make a connection they die off on their own.
Why do they have commercials? Because they want people to get vaccinated so it doesn't mutate into something that goes beyond killing old people and people who have underlying conditions. To make sure it doesn't affect you and others in your age group and lower. Do we know for sure it will ever mutate to that? Nope. Nor do we know if it won't. The best way to combat it is to make sure it can't.
Also, It is so the fed govt or state and local govt don't have to shut us down again and mandate we wear masks etc. In other words get life back to normal.
If you believe it is a money grab, let me show you how the companies made their money....Biontech was at 32 dollars a share Feb 2020, they are now at 200. Moderna was at 18 in Feb of 2020, they are today sitting at 162. On top of that Trump gave them federal money to help with the research.
When did testing begin on the detecting what the virus was, or when they started testing on the Vaccine? My guess is China detected the virus early 4th quarter of last year, as many people were getting sick and they all had the same symptoms. My guess early Feb they started testing the general public for the virus in the states.
What did they know to test for? They knew it was a virus, they knew it came into Seattle from China. Just like your job where you know something because you were trained what to look for, the people at the diagnostic clinic know what covid looks like.
Why no vaccines for other forms of covid. Because other forms are as contagious and don't spread like 19 does. They also don't go after the lungs as aggressively 19 does.