If its approved l hope no-one orders the Wuhan vaccine…they should be giving it away free!!! Or at the very least with no profit involved.
The ‘I told you so’ male old fogeys on here would have a field day if it did live up to expectations
Ha Ha!
Very True, Vlad!
Some Jeremiahs don’t understand that, in a situation where there seems to be no escape from sickness & despair, the mere scent of a fix can be a massive tonic.
It works for me.
:-p
And me Ted
IMO, “scents of fixes” are for the gullible …
Life in the UK will start returning to normal by spring next year, a scientific advisor to the government has said, after early trial data from the pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNTech indicated their coronavirus vaccine is 90 per cent effective.
“I’m probably the first guy to say that but I will say that with some confidence,” said professor Sir John Bell, a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
Prof Bell, who is regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said the results of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine suggested it was likely other candidates would also be effective.
He would say that wouln’t he … he’s got vested interests
Bell has been a non-executive director of Roche since 2001. According to Roche’s 2011 financial report, John Bell has received 390,000 Swiss Francs (£260,450) a year* for his role on the board of directors.
Bell serves on the Genentech Board in San Francisco, and formerly served on the scientific advisory board of AstraZeneca (1997–2000). He was the founding director of three biotechnology companies, including Oxagen, Avidex, and Powderject and is also on the Board of Atopix.
He has dozens of other governmental and charitable interests around the world, which if he only claimed expenses, would make him a millionaire many times over …
- What do Roche and its shareholders expect for this level of involvement and remuneration?
Bell was selected to the Vaccine Taskforce sometime before 1 July 2020.
Coincidentally, his boss has just been “sacked”:
The head of the Government’s vaccines taskforce is expected to leave her post at the end of the year after it emerged that officials had spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on PR experts to support her work.
I nodded off after the first para.
You lot try the vaccine, and if in a years time you haven’t grown two heads or a third eye, I might give it a go…
It was in a BBC news item a few weeks ago that suggested that people who had contracted the disease and recovered, only remained resistant for a few months…Due to the fact that a vaccine works in the same way as catching covid to provide antibodies to repel the disease the next time, you will need to administer the vaccine every few months to avoid catching it again…
A bit like your annual flu jab, as the virus mutates, and requires a modification of the vaccine, but every three months instead of twelve… Darts anyone?
Our paper lad doesn’t ever seem to have a positive view.
Maybe the Jeremiahs should refuse the vaccine.
I shall continue to be cheerful, about it, until I hear otherwise.
p.s. I’m old enough not to need anyone, who thinks that they have the divine right, to tell me to be careful what I think.
‘ our paper lad’
Excellent post! and I agree wholeheartedly with your viewpoint.
Zoom and Netflix shares plummeted on the news.
They are saying on the lunchtime news, that people who need two vaccines, three weeks apart.
What no one has yet said - as far as I know - is do they know how long it might give protection for?
Might it be like the Polio jabs we had as children which were long lasting, or like the Rabies jabs, or would it be more like the annual Flu jabs which have to be constantly ‘tweaked’ every year?
Presumably if the virus constantly changes, it would have to modified each year, but as yet, they are not saying - to my knowledge.
Exactly … no-one knows the answers to those questions (and many more) … :!:
The “optimists” just see ‘vaccine’ as a silver bullet … :roll:
AFAIK, the Pfizer ‘vaccine’ needs to be kept at minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94 F) or below - no pharmacies or surgeries and very few hospitals have appropriate storage. Presumably, any transport vehicles, too, will have to be as cold.
Last night they were saying -80°C. This means the vaccine phials will probably have to be kept in flasks of liquid nitrogen or similar.
I was listening to the Today programme on R4 this morning. They were discussing the Pfizer vaccine and how good it would be to have everyone vaccinated by the end of next year, when the guy they were talking to said something along the lines of, “BUT … we don’t know how long it will take, 3, 4, 5, or more years, etc.” What? Just for once, in many, many months there is a light at the end of the tunnel and some tosser comes along and pisses on the parade!
That’ll be Mr Realist trying to calm down the Gullibles …
Let’s hope so Meg. You deserve all those things.
I reckon they had a Wuhan vaccine before they invented Covid. They just had to wait for the World economy to collapse before flogging it.
That’s funny, that’s exactly what I said to a friend of mne months ago. :shock:
Well, we all know it’s all about big pharma and the money making machine. I’m not so sure at all after reading this, they’ve have had so many scandals according to this article. Hmmmmmmmm
Nobody knows how long the vaccine might give protection as it is a new era to all. We just have to hope they come up with something suitable for us.