11-11-2020, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by AnnieS
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I read Merkel is now talking tightening of the EU border. But that's more about terrorism.
There is not much point in vaccinating everyone here, then letting in unvaccinated immigrants, holiday makers, and business travellers IMO.
11-11-2020, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by AnnieS
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It's not exactly the same at all. You don't contract the sickness from the vaccine. The virus can mutate faster when it spreads like wildfire through a population. Particularly when it jumps to animals then back.
11-11-2020, 03:32 PM
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Russia declares Sputnik-V vaccine '92% effective'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-54899679
Russia was widely criticised for its triumphalism back in August when it declared Sputnik V "the world’s first" to be registered. At that point, Phase 3 trials had not even begun.
Some 36,000 people have since had at least one of the two injections required, and the developers report no serious side-effects.
Several volunteers we spoke to at a Moscow health centre said they felt fine, though opinion polls show many Russians remain sceptical about receiving the vaccine.
The developers have also revealed for the first time that 10,000 Russians in high-risk professions, including doctors, have been vaccinated with Sputnik V outside of the formal, clinical trials.
12-11-2020, 12:06 AM
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Pfizer and BioNTech could make $13bn from coronavirus vaccinehttps://www.theguardian.com/business...avirus-vaccine
Pfizer’s half would be more than the US pharmaceutical group’s bestselling product, a pneumonia vaccine that generated $5.8bn last year.
Pfizer has agreed to supply 100m doses to the US at a price of $39 for a two-shot course, or $19.50 per dose, with the option to supply another 500m doses under new terms. The EU has ordered 200m doses while the UK has ordered 40m.
While other vaccine makers have pledged not to profit from their jabs during the pandemic, Pfizer has taken a different stance. Treating the pandemic as a commercial opportunity, the company turned down research funding from the US government under its vaccine programme Operation Warp Speed, and used almost $2bn of its own money instead to develop the Covid-19 vaccine with Germany’s BioNTech.
12-11-2020, 05:04 AM
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Even if a vaccine proves successful it will still take a long time before the vacine is produced and distributed to enough people to enable international travel to be restarted.Qantas is still saying it is unlikely that travel to and from the UK and USA will commence before the middle of next year and is still looking at new routes in Asia which could become available as approved destinations.
Even though Kiwis can now fly to Australia the NZ government does not think Australia has reduced the incidence of the disease enough to allow travel into the land of the long white cloud.
NSW has had no new locally transmitted cases for five consecutive days.
16-11-2020, 05:30 AM
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Covid vaccine: Major new trial starts in UKhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54951650
The jab - designed by the Belgian company Janssen - uses a genetically modified common cold virus to train the immune system. It comes a week after preliminary results showed another vaccine offered 90% protection. However, many types of vaccine are likely to be needed to end the pandemic.
The hunt for Covid vaccines continues as a different approach may yet be better, or better in some age groups, and one company will struggle to immunise the planet.
Janssen already has one large scale trial of its vaccine in which volunteers get one dose. This trial will see if two gives a stronger and longer lasting immunity.
It could take six to nine months before the results are available.
16-11-2020, 12:17 PM
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There are still high hopes for the Queensland Uni vaccine but early days yet.Scientists from the University of Queensland (UQ) say pre-clinical trials of their vaccine show it triggers the immune system to protect against the disease.
The UQ vaccine, which uses what is known as "molecular clamp" technology, is different to the Oxford University-AstraZeneca chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine which the Federal Government signed a "letter of intent" over last week.
The UQ candidate has been in human trials since early July, and although it is behind the Oxford University candidate in the testing process, it is considered by most experts to be the most promising of the handful of Australian vaccines under development.
18-11-2020, 03:14 PM
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Covid vaccine: Pfizer says it's '94% effective in over-65s'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54986208
The companies say they will now apply for authorisation for emergency use of the jab in the US.
The findings are based on two doses given to more than 41,000 people around the world.
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