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How to get a vaccine as fast as possible?

1) List all credible vaccine candidates
2) Recruit enough volunteers for challenge trials
3) Obtain sufficient funds, legal assistance, lab, hospital space for each trial
4) Execute all trials in parallel
More on the challenge trials proposed by @mlipsitch. Basically, test an experimental vaccine by exposing volunteers to live virus under controlled conditions.

Gates is funding seven candidates. We might be able to help with patient recruitment.
Amazing list of COVID19 treatments and vaccines by @golden! It attempts to be comprehensive, so please point out if there's another one to add. I count 26 here.

golden.com/wiki/Cluster%3…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Bailouts are wrong for several reasons:

1) demand has fallen off a cliff, many airlines are zombie companies
2) monies are politically allocated, not to directly fighting the virus
3) it’s upward redistribution of wealth
4) no end to the printing until destructive inflation
I am sympathetic to every business large & small that has gone under or faced hard times in this catastrophe.

But the Fed printing trillions, diluting everyone down, and not allocating it to stop the virus is crazy.

Like mopping up the blood rather than bandaging the wound.
Most of what we need is limited by lack of leadership and surfeit of regulation, but money could buy:

- mask for every American
- wearable to monitor temperature
- prizes for drugs, vaccines
- serosurveys
- at-home tests
- funds for MDs, nurses

Allocation does not seem focused.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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The Vox Doctrine

Media companies are profiting from a crisis they helped create. Vox/Recode dismissed the pandemic, scorned precautions, told you not to wear masks, even attacked philanthrophy!

Now they're setting traffic records.

Need citizen journalism, not corporate media. ImageImage
Vox: "factual, reliable, clear journalism is more important than ever."

Also Vox: "Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No." Image
Vox: "factual, reliable, clear journalism"

Also Vox: "public officials in the area say the virus is contained"
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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We’re in the middle of a dramatic political realignment which is obscured by legacy party labels.

Nationalists have dropped all opposition to economic controls and socialists have dropped all opposition to border controls. On the other side will be internationalist capitalists.
These terms of reference might seem crazy (or "too early") but the center of the new spectrum is anti-virus & pro-Bitcoin.

Anti-virus: need competent centralized states to protect health and safety

Pro-Bitcoin: need robust decentralized networks to defend freedom and privacy
The presence of a competent centralized state is not an impossibility, as Asia illustrates.

The presence of a competent centralized state is not a guarantee, as the West illustrates.

Decentralization is an exit from the latter and a ladder to the former.
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