I don't really get it why it will get so long before vaccine is available. 1) Technology and medical knowledge are more developed than ever, 2) society is richer than ever and extra funding already had been allocated, 3) As a matter of emergency few safety steps can be skipped ( choosing the lesser evil ).
I really feel that vaccine could be discovered in 3 months, maybe not 100% human safe, but 80-90% safe would under these circumstances safe enough as stop gap measure. Obviously vaccine development will continue and maybe in 6 months we can have 100% safe.
The problem is, With a vaccine, the reason they call it trials is because even with all the study and the vaccine fundamentally ready, We don't know how it will affect people if some people will have a more violent reaction than others, in a worst-case nightmare scenario, a vaccine could mutate the disease within the body creating a mutant strain.
But more so, In trials, We know so little about it, We won't know the statistics and analytics on the drug. We won't know the proper dose, And, To be completely fair, Even vaccines, while they are life saving, do have fatality rates although almost minuscule, the truth is, To properly call it a drug. We need to know a lot of things about it, That honestly take years to figure out. It's not coming up with the drug that takes so long, Chances are someone in a lab somewhere already has that or has the homework finished on its creation, It's, Not knowing exactly what it will do to people because it could literally affect men differently than women, Or children, Not to bring ethnicity into this, But A scientist knows People of different ethnicities do need different medications and different doses of medications sometimes,
This seems ethnically charged and almost superstitious,
However this is true, Red-headed people require more anesthesia before surgery and pain killers because they have a lower tolerance to pain genetically.
Myth Understanding: The Truth About Redheads and Pain Meds
We need something universal that has been painstakingly engineered to work universally, And to find this drug requires Years, Sometimes decades
Consider, They present a vaccine, But oops. It only works on Chinese women and only half the time, This would not really be the Pancia we were looking for. And sadly, to even know this about it, would require clinical trials.