As far as I know, it is Oxford, England working in combination with an American medical animal research facility. (Well isolated in the hinterlands).
Now, about the slanderous remarks against American Big Pharma. You are suggesting that a British Big Pharma vaccine would be totally free ? Are you suggesting that the British are better than America ? It surely sounds like it.
You mentioned the cost of AIDS meds. I know of two fellows who have AIDS and the $15,000/month cost is picked up by the U.S. government. Is that true of the UK ? Hmm ?
IMO, any pharma research company is entitled to recover the funds that they spent in producing a vaccine; certainly that would run into tens of millions of dollars. However, any pharmaceutical company that did not share with the world, free of charge, would very likely be burned to the ground.
In conclusion, I would expect that the government would pick up the tab for ANYONE who could not afford a low cost fee. If word ever got out, and it would get out, that only the wealthy were getting a vaccine there would be riots that could not be controlled.
Evening news
A pet dog who became sick has tested positive for Covid-19.
No web site given on the news.
Gov would pick up the costs
To most of us would be free if considered life threating.
PS a prescription for drugs that will not save your life is £9 unless you are over 65 my Blood pressure drugs cost me nothing as all do other drugs
Exactly ! Let’s not get upset over something that has not even happened.
Sorry
Has happened to me for the last 20 years and cost me nothing
There is at least 100 facilities working on a vaccine worldwide so cost really isn’t going to be an issue because, unlike Ebola, there is a big demand and quite possibly plenty of competition.
Having said that even the vaccines undergoing trials now, according to the people who know about these sort of things, there is at least 12 months before any vaccine will be available for widespread use.
We armchair epidemiologists just have to wait.
Yes, quite true about widespread use. However, that vaccine from Oxford University will be ready for human testing as early as September.
Additionally, India is claiming that they also have a vaccine and are planning to manufacture tens of million of doses by September. Time will tell.
Global Cases 3,138,707
Global Deaths 218,000
Mortality Rate 7%
(Flu Mortality Rate 0.1%)
Australia
Cases 6,738
Deaths 88
Critical 42
Cases per Million 264
UK
Cases 161,145
Deaths 21,678
Critical 1,559
Cases per Million 2,374
USA
Cases 1,035,765
Deaths 59,266
Critical 15,298
Cases per Million 3,129
In the table referred to, the UK has overtaken Germany in total number of cases. According to the radio news this arvo the UK deaths figure is actually about 25000 when known deaths from Covid19 in Aged Care facilities are added in. However this is not reflected in the above figures.
Human trials have already started with at least one vaccine but these trials take 12 to 18 months (apparently under normal circumstances they take up to 5 years).
The problem is that they have to be blind trials where some patients get the vaccine and some don’t, no one conducting the trial knows which is which (except a very few not directly involved with the monitoring), also no patients are infected with the virus because it is deadly but just carry on as normal.
These trials take up to 18 months but the side effects have to be monitored and modifications made to the vaccine so it can take longer.
I only know this because there was a detailed explanation on the radio yesterday morning from some professor from the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory.
This is why treatment options are discovered/tested more quickly because they are done with infected patients and the results are almost immediate. Just look how quickly Trump’s miracle cure was proved to be ineffective even dangerous (I can’t remember the unpronounceable name)
Oxford University vaccine should be available in September. They hope to have a few million available by then subject to emergency approval by the regulators.
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I am not entirely convinced that it will be ready by then.
We have a worrying new development in that some kids are showing signs of being affected by the virus in a different way to adults.
I live in hope that we can sort it soon.
A working vaccine would still takes months to develop in the amounts we need.
We will beat this, but when has yet to be determined.
Germany it seems may not be the benchmark to follow in allowing an easing of lockdown.Also ppe isues.
Over 1million cases now in the US… I read that more people have died there of the virus than did in the whole of the Vietnam war.
Reading stats like that bring home how serious it is.
Just watching the 7pm news and there was an item about deaths in the UK (it wasn’t specifically about the UK but these are the numbers I tried to remember) basically it said that in a normal year 170000 people died. This year however 207000 people have died already. They are worried that the official figures for Covid19 deaths are missing a lot of people.
Those figures are from my recollection of the report in the news.
There was a report earlier this week which says the UK deaths could be 40% higher than reported. It is very worrying when you can’t believe official figures from a first world country
Before I was 65, I received free prescriptions because I am diabetic (‘am’, not ‘was’, as it cannot be cured!).
Now I’m 67, I receive prescriptions for free on two counts!
We oldies still have some benefits, thankfully.
Free prescriptions start at 60,thats the only benefit of reaching that age now,except of course all that experience garnered long the way.Although I think for certain illness’s such as diabetes and cancer prescriptions are free for that.
Some excellent news
In two separate trials, the anti-ebola drug, called Remdesivir, has proven to be 64% effective in quickly defeating Covid-19.
The two research studies show that 64% of patients were released from the hospital within 7 days. However, doctors caution that Remdesivir is not a vaccine , but only one “tool” in the fight against Covid-19.
Not entirely. I received my bus pass at age 60!
I’ve only used it twice!
