Talk:COVID-19 drug development

Proposed merge of COVID-19 vaccine with COVID-19 drug development

This page contains some copied material from COVID-19 vaccine and the two cover virtually the same thing. Sam-2727 (talk) 17:12, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose, they are definitely not "virtually the same thing", as drug development is focused on therapeutics to be administered to people who have the disease, and vaccine development is focused on a distinct class of preventative biologics for people who do not have the disease. Put in a "see also" section or a {{See main}} template, but there is a reason that every vaccine developed thus far has its own article in Wikipedia separate and distinct from articles on drugs for treatment of the condition. BD2412 T 17:19, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose I think it's pretty clear that vaccines and therapeutic drugs are different subjects. However, I think there's some distinction to be made between the development of novel drugs for COVID-19 treatment, and drug repurposing research. Pretty recently I've started the COVID-19 Drug Repurposing Research page since it's a distinct line of research in drug development. I think a good solution might be making a general page for drug development that links out to the different research directions like Drug Repurposing. ProbablyAndrewKuznetsov (talk) 18:43, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
• Comment If we're talking about therapeutic drugs here, why not move to COVID-19 treatment development? Username⁶⁸⁹² 18:44, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
  • I would consider that a reasonable solution. BD2412 T 18:59, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
  • +1 This makes sense to me ProbablyAndrewKuznetsov (talk) 19:36, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
  • +1 This page is about both vaccines and therapeutics. Specific pages for each also exist COVID-19 vaccine and COVID-19 drug repurposing research <- probably should be renamed to COVID-19 drug development --Gtoffoletto (talk) 22:08, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
  • To disease scientists, vaccines are "biologics" and antivirals are "therapeutics" or "medicines", but to the general public encyclopedia user (and apparently to Anthony Fauci when answering media questions), vaccines and antivirals both are "drugs" tested in the conventional drug development process; hence, the title given to this article. We should use a title that facilitates a public seeking information and is consistent with common non-medical search terms. I don't think 'treatment' would be searched much. --Zefr (talk) 23:38, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
    • If the general public thought whales were a kind of fish, we would still make the distinction. Whatever the name of this article, a "see also" to an article specifically focused on the vaccine is still merited. There is no question that there will, in very short order, be an enormous amount of content on that topic, as on this one. BD2412 T 23:43, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose but the if the articles are to remain seperate the copied (now out of date) content on vaccines on this page should be removed. Currently due to this copied content the articles are in effect already merged. --D Wells (talk) 13:06, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
• Comment I won't !vote on this because I don't know enough about the difference, but it might be helpful to put a {{see also}}, {{for}}, or {{distinguish}} at the top of both pages. — Gestrid (talk) 07:33, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose It is better to have separate article for drug development regarding COVID-19 and officially we haven't got any information about the invention of the vaccine and the practical tests are still ongoing. Abishe (talk) 16:31, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

• It seems prudent that it should be a single page and should include both vaccine and drug development in a single page, and include both in the title. One implies immunization, the other implies treatment. As a researcher and academic, I would find it very useful to have it on a single page. ChristensenKH (talk) 19:42, 22 March 2020 (UTC) — ChristensenKH (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
• Both on a Single Page Vaccine development and Treatment development are two separate things. However, I believe it should both be on a single page with a title like "COVID-19 Vaccine & Treatment Development." I agree with ChristensenKH, it would be very helpful and useful to be on the same page. DustyGoliath (talk) 20:27, 23 March 2020 (UTC) — DustyGoliath (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
• Oppose: as many have said before, there is a difference between developing a vaccine and developing a treatment. I will say that the drug development article needs to be more clear that it is referring only to treatment. It should not include stuff about potential vaccine.  Bait30  ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 20:53, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
• Keep vaccine separate Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:17, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose since they have very different modes of operation, development and use. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:02, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose Not the same thing, with a clear disamb. header I think researchers will have no problems finding the article they are looking for Sugarcoils (talk) 11:43, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Merge from COVID-19 drug repurposing research

These two pages basically cover the same thing. Yes the vaccine article should be kept separate. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:17, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

• Agree: yes, we should merege it with special categories to these two since this is the same topic (talk) 11:49, 24 March 2020 (UTC+1)
• Agree Sugarcoils (talk) 11:01, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
• Support as most of the proposed drugs are repurpose ones. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:03, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
• Support Important subsection of COVID-19 Drug Development, can be spun out later if it gets way longer and drug development significantly deviates from drug repurposing.ProbablyAndrewKuznetsov (talk) 18:29, 24 March 2020 (UTC)