Caller · moment 9 of 20
A Year Away From a Vaccine, and Whether Heat Helps
from Emergency Broadcast - Corona Call-Ins #2 · #2
4 min
Caller
John predicts it will take about a year for a vaccine, doubts that reinfection immunity will hold, and dismisses the theory that warm weather will slow transmission.
- Tim predicts the pandemic will get worse and estimates vaccines are still at least a year away.
- Question of whether businesses stay closed forever or if people eventually have to go back out and develop immunity through exposure.
- Tim thinks people will get the coronavirus multiple times and it'll cycle like the flu, requiring annual shots.
- Being the first person to sign up for an experimental coronavirus vaccine—Tim admits he'd be a prime candidate.
- Whether warm weather will reduce virus transmission; Tim doubts it since the virus survives on surfaces and in air regardless of temperature.
- The virus might actually get worse in heat for all anyone knows—uncertainty is the scary part.
- Searching for good news, Tim notes people are coming together during the crisis and that most people who get infected won't die or need hospitalization.
- Tim claims he's on the front line seeing the sickest people and confirms that most cases aren't severe.