Recent announcements of relatively successful coronavirus vaccine trials have stoked optimism about their widespread distribution, but there are more hurdles to clear before that becomes a reality. The Onion looks at a coronavirus vaccine’s path to availability.
STEP 1: Pharmaceutical companies sense opportunity for Covid vaccine when millions of people get infected worldwide.
STEP 2: Normal four-year vaccine process expedited by assigning one researcher to constantly shout “Come on, come on, come on!”
STEP 3: Market researchers study what key consumer demographics are looking for in a vaccine.
STEP 4: Researchers go on Amazon to see if they sell some sort of little jars they can put vaccine in.
STEP 5: Pharmaceutical companies work alongside federal and state leaders to figure out how to effectively price-fix.
STEP 6: Months of lifesaving clinical trials invalidated by single hastily made conspiracy Facebook meme.
STEP 7: Solve intractable problem of how to get medicine to poor people.
STEP 8: Nation begins forming line outside Pfizer facility in Kalamazoo.
STEP 9: Insurance claim denied.
STEP 10: Big Pharma continues unblemished record of dispensing cures for betterment of all mankind.
