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

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Usually comments on BBC articles are pretty horrible. However, I'm very pleased to see that the top comment on that article is: "This is the power of science. Step aside celebrities- these people are who should be famous. " Edit: I should also point out that I am, of course, in complete agreement

How much do you bet though that in 6 months Biden will claim: you see, I got elected and I solved Covid!

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I wonder what will happen with the vaccine deals that governments have been doing. Like, what if they pre-ordered from one manufacturer whose vaccine proves inferior to the other ones?

There are not enough per-orders to vaccinate everyone even if they all pass trials, and nobody has the ability to manufacture enough to vaccinate the world alone in a reasonable time period anyway. If all the early vaccines pass trails we can start opening up the world in 6 months. If they is the only one we are more than a year away.

That said, all the deals are contingent on being effective. With this being 90% effective that sets a bar for the others. The FDA has previously said they need your vaccine to be 50% effective to approve it. However with this being 90% effective they are unlikely to approve one that is only 50% effective. Unlikely doesn't mean they won't: different allergic reactions; usefulness in different age groups; ability to ship to remote groups; difference in effectiveness to some minority: all are factors that may make some vaccine approved even if it is clearly the worse one to get overall.

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I'm feeling a deep-seated wave of relief that I never thought possible. Like waking up from a year-long nightmare. Thank God.

I wake up long time ago when I realized the virus is not as dangerous as the media reported it. You too should wake up right now and live your life. Stop being afraid.

Glad to hear the virus is not dangerous, a pity you've informed us all so late!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wake up long time ago when I realized the virus is not as dangerous as the media reported it. You too should wake up right now and live your life. Stop being afraid.

How dangerous did you assess it to be?

Vast majority of the cases are asymptomatic or only have mild symptoms.

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Same here. Congratulations and thanks to everybody who worked so hard on this.

Screw the media for pushing this and lockdown as the only possible solution. This will still take ages to be rolled out.

Look, I get that you find lockdowns an inconvenience but the real world isn’t a TV show where a cheap and easily distributed cure will be invented 10 minutes before the end of the episode. People will reliably die until a vaccine or highly effective treatment is widely available, and the only way to slow that is to rely on proven public health techniques.

While you’re being inconvenienced remember that you’re better off than most people who’ve ever lived. Isolation and fear of early death were a pervasive part of life until the 20th century brought vaccination and antibiotics, and we’re getting only a small reminder of what used to be normal.

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Not stated in the article: this was part of the Trump Administration DHHS's Project Warp Speed, which funded 6 different vaccines concurrently. https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-sp...

Warp Speed didn't contribute to the development of this one; they have allocated funds to buy the vaccine though Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to rush a vaccine to market, has promised Pfizer $1.95 billion to deliver 100 million doses to the federal government, which will be given to Americans free of charge. But Dr. Jansen sought to distance the company from Operation Warp Speed and presidential politics,…

Having a guaranteed $1.95 billion as a result of development causes companies to invest additional money.

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post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wake up long time ago when I realized the virus is not as dangerous as the media reported it. You too should wake up right now and live your life. Stop being afraid.

Glad to hear the virus is not dangerous, a pity you've informed us all so late!

I've been commenting out and againts the lockdown (not againts vaccine) since around may.

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post #317

I'm feeling a deep-seated wave of relief that I never thought possible. Like waking up from a year-long nightmare. Thank God.

I wake up long time ago when I realized the virus is not as dangerous as the media reported it. You too should wake up right now and live your life. Stop being afraid.

Three of my dead family members (edit for clarity: not my immediate nuclear family, but people I'm still close to) don't feel the same way (nor do those who were impacted by the hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in the US), but I'm glad you've found this whole thing to be overblown.

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

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post #317

I'm feeling a deep-seated wave of relief that I never thought possible. Like waking up from a year-long nightmare. Thank God.

I wake up long time ago when I realized the virus is not as dangerous as the media reported it. You too should wake up right now and live your life. Stop being afraid.

>I wake up long time ago when I realized the virus is not as dangerous as the media reported it. You too should wake up right now and live your life. Stop being afraid.

This is really exciting news. How did you find out? Shouldn't we alert the public?

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