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Remedy or Quackery? These Scientists Are Giving Themselves DIY Coronavirus Vaccines
News 18In April, more than three months before any coronavirus vaccine would enter large clinical trials, the mayor of a picturesque island town in the Pacific Northwest invited a microbiologist friend to vaccinate him. They were swatted down by the mayor, who defended his friend of 25 years as a “pharmaceutical scientist on the forefront.” When residents raised additional concerns — about Stine’s credentials and the unfairness of encouraging him to visit San Juan Island despite travel restrictions — Stine lobbed back vulgar insults. But once a person starts encouraging other people to try an unproven vaccine, “you’re headed right back to the days of patent medicine and quackery,” he said, referring to a time when remedies were widely sold with colorful but misleading promises. For RaDVaC, Estep said, “we are the animals.” But without rigorous clinical trials, August said, there’s no reliable way to know if it is safe or effective. It’s that he “sold this so-called vaccine to people in Washington who are frightened and more apt to look for a miracle cure in the midst of a worldwide pandemic,” Ferguson said in a statement.
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