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Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection

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Post by mattzito »

dragonsh wrote: post #44

Hopefully there is more better scientific data on this vaccine before rushing it to top of HN and judgement. I am not sure how to explain 90% immunity from a disease in scientific language, because there are only two states a person get infected with COVID-19 or does not get infected with COVID-19. Not sure how this vaccine will make a person 10% infected and 90% not infected with COVID-19. This is one of the vaccine…

It’s a 90% reduction in cases in a vaccinated population vs unvaccinated. Basically how good is the vaccine at preventing symptomatic infection upon exposure

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Post by FrojoS »

WhoIsSatoshi wrote: post #7

UK already ordered 30M out of the 50M avail for this year. So no going on winter break to Thailand just yet! Wondering who will grab the next 20M, and how much this vaccine is being sold per dose. (edit: PFE is currently trading +13% pre-market on the NYSE)

Edit: The article states “ Pfizer believes it will be able to supply 50 million doses by the end of this year, and around 1.3 billion by the end of 2021. The UK should get 10 million doses by the end of the year, with a further 30 million doses already ordered.”

So the UK will only get 10/50 Millionen doses produced this year.

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Post by jefe_ »

himlion wrote: post #26
zpeti wrote: post #17

Seems like a good time to buy shares in whoever manufactures industrial sized extra cold freezers.

So which company benefits the most here? From a cursory googling the following seem decent: - The Whirlpool Corporation - Electrolux AB - LG Electronics Inc. problem is these companies have a lot of exposure to other sectors as well of course.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has freezers that hit these temps. About $10-20k per unit it appears.

https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-te...

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Post by input_sh »

TomGullen wrote: post #2

Great news and the markets are reacting very positively to the news as well which indicates to me this could be the beginning of the end!

Except Zoom's, which fell from 514 to 410 in less than an hour.

Really puts the nails in coffin of the whole "we're gonna work more remotely after the pandemic" narrative.

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Post by aphextron »

sixQuarks wrote: post #60
mhb wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get some Peloton too. People will probably want to start exercising in their homes.

You’re way too late to the party. Peloton became a $30 billion company during covid. Down over 10% in premarket trading

>You’re way too late to the party. Peloton became a $30 billion company during covid. Down over 10% in premarket trading

He's mocking people who are making obvious short sighted covid-based stock plays.

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Post by jefftk »

bjarneh wrote: post #27
TremendousJudge wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First phrasing makes more sense than the second one to me -- what would it even mean for somebody to be "90% immune" to a disease?

> what would it even mean for somebody to be "90% immune" to a disease? Hasn't this virus already mutated to a bunch of different strands? Could it mean you're immune to 90% of the known variations of the virus?

The variations are enough to have differences in infectiousness and to allow us to trace the spread a bit, but as far as we know immunity to any of them is immunity to all of them.

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Post by anoncake »

danpalmer wrote: post #46

Fascinating logistics problem here - distributing a vaccine that needs to be stored at -80C. This is significantly colder than the standard cold logistics chain. I believe Pfizer are working on a special transport box that can, unpowered, stay at the right temperature for a week as long as the box is only opened for something like 1 minute a day. That's a good thing, but with a capacity of I believe 10k vaccine doses…

You don't have to deliver the vaccine into every community. People can travel to nearest next place that has it.

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Post by m12k »

"However, there are logistical challenges as the vaccine has to be kept in ultra-cold storage at below minus 80C."

Does anyone know how many of the other vaccine candidates have this limitation? It seems to me that a vaccine with easier logistics might still end up having a bigger impact overall, despite not being the first - although that of course needs to be combined with the ease of production too (I don't know how easy it is to mass produce these new RNA vaccines compared to more traditional ones).

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Post by tgv »

krm01 wrote: post #12

By not knowing how long the immunity/protection lasts, it could mean people would have take the vaccine every 6months?12months?

We'll have to find out. If the virus is suppressed for 6-12 months, it's basically eradicated, and vaccination would only have to start once it starts spreading again.

The rate of spreading will depend on factors such as international travel and how much people will have learned from this period. I expect/fear that everyone will try to get life as before as soon as possible, so the extra delay after the vaccine wears off might be negligible.

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