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

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

#81

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.

Did it? I’m looking at ZOOM and it’s on 500

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

#82

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.

I don't understand, aren't future events supposed to be already considered in the stock price? It's not like a vaccine was unpredictable

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

#83

Oh, just in time for Kamalas presidency. Where have I seen this before. I mean honestly, it's too eerily similar.

Where have you seen this before?

Different from the comic, but still pretty accurate turn of events :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)

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

#84

Just curious, why the reaction towards this and the ones from Russia/China are different ?

They have only done phase 1/2 trials and this one is phase 3.

Also, people trust US/EU research more. They have not been very forthcoming with data. The data that has been made available has been lacking in detail or has patterns that indicate either fabrication or sloppiness.

Both countries appear to be moivated by domestic and geopolitical political purposes. The US has also being doing that, but the medical establishment and regulatory bodies in the US are seen to be more independent of government than in China or Russia. Also, this is a German result, and people trust Germany more.

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

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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...

Yes, I've been in biotechs that had 100s of these freezers in a room.

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

#88
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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!

I remember that in March somebody posted here an entry saying that mutation of the virus will make vaccinations only useful in the short term. Were these concerns already addressed at this stage? We have seen mutations due to minks recently which could make the vaccinations ineffective. These mutations might have been controlled but similar situations may arise in the next years. For these reasons I am not entirely s…

Coronaviruses like SARS-COV-2 mutate relatively slowly and minimally compared to others. So mutation isn't expected to be a huge concern, unlike say influenza which mutates relatively rapidly and requires an annual tweak to the vaccines.

What's more, any new strains we do see spreading more widely will do so because their mutations confer a competitive advantage. In practice that usually means more drift towards higher infectiousness but less severe symptoms - the same mechanisms that have left us with 4 other endemic but mild common cold coroanviruses.

The new SARS-COV-2 vaccines may be a useful tool to get us over this hump where the virus is still novel to a large proportion of the population, but are unlikely to be required indefinitely.

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

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> 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.

> but as far as we know immunity to any of them is immunity to all of them.

OK. The longevity of the immunity is also an issue perhaps; at least they have written articles about people becoming re-infected; so even the people who do become immune may not stay that way forever...

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

#90

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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.

Did it? I’m looking at ZOOM and it’s on 500

https://www.google.com/search?q=zoom+stock+ticker&oq=zoom+st...

^ check the pre-trading price

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