Coronavirus: Better Call Sol - CORONAMANIA (13 Viewers)

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[IFF]

I was going to post letters for work today. A guy stops his car to ask me for directions to the county's covid test centre

I would have been more than 2 metres away though

 

[nooleen]

Nice knowin ya

 

[nuke terrorist]

apart from when I go walking, I wear a mask all the time when I go out.

but not one person I know has died from Covid.
although I know some people who were very sick with it.

just saying... be careful and you should be OK.

 

[pete]

Pfizer says early analysis shows its Covid-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective

Drugmaker Pfizer said Monday an early look at data from its coronavirus vaccine shows it is more than 90% effective -- a much better than expected efficacy if the trend continues.

edition.cnn.com

 

[pete]

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[rettucs]

Pfizer says early analysis shows its Covid-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective

Drugmaker Pfizer said Monday an early look at data from its coronavirus vaccine shows it is more than 90% effective -- a much better than expected efficacy if the trend continues.

edition.cnn.com

can someone give me my opinion on this please

 

[hugh]

@Cornu Ammonis ?

 

[rettucs]

The logistical challenges in terms of having to ship at below 80 degrees, are interesting. Seems they'd be better to manufacture worldwide, rather than in one location and ship worldwide. This will be financially lucrative enough for them to do so, I reckon.

 

[Unicron]

The logistical challenges in terms of having to ship at below 80 degrees, are interesting. Seems they'd be better to manufacture worldwide, rather than in one location and ship worldwide. This will be financially lucrative enough for them to do so, I reckon.

They've a big facility in little island, dunno if they can retrofit it for this.

 

[rettucs]

the other thing I'm curious about is the 90% figure they're offering, and how that stacks up against, say, the flu vaccine.

I suppose a combination of this, and the rapid tests that also give 80%-90% accuracy, will leave us much better off.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

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Danny's gonna save us

 

[JohnnyRaz]

The logistical challenges in terms of having to ship at below 80 degrees, are interesting. Seems they'd be better to manufacture worldwide, rather than in one location and ship worldwide. This will be financially lucrative enough for them to do so, I reckon.

dry ice?
will greatly add to the cost, but is manageable. lots of bio science reagents are shipped this way.
they'll have done the calculations on the most profit enhancing ways to scale up production, probably will ultimately have regional production I'd imagine.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

 

[rettucs]

dry ice?
will greatly add to the cost, but is manageable. lots of bio science reagents are shipped this way.
they'll have done the calculations on the most profit enhancing ways to scale up production, probably will ultimately have regional production I'd imagine.

the other question is, given the nature of covid and the state of the world, will pfizer license production to other companies. I don't know if that's a thing really but I do know there is a point where a lot of medication can be mass produced by companies other than those who pioneered them. No doubt to do with licensing, or the lifetime of IP, etc.

Am sure all the other companies who are working on a vaccine aren't about to stop their efforts now either. So we could have a choice of vaccine soon enough.

Or, we could just have Darina Allen do a show where she can tell us all how to make our own with a bit of Ballymaloe relish.

 

[ernesto]

the other question is, given the nature of covid and the state of the world, will pfizer license production to other companies. I don't know if that's a thing really but I do know there is a point where a lot of medication can be mass produced by companies other than those who pioneered them. No doubt to do with licensing, or the lifetime of IP, etc.

Am sure all the other companies who are working on a vaccine aren't about to stop their efforts now either. So we could have a choice of vaccine soon enough.

Or, we could just have Darina Allen do a show where she can tell us all how to make our own with a bit of Ballymaloe relish.

add a strong dash of paedophelia

 

[JohnnyRaz]

the other question is, given the nature of covid and the state of the world, will pfizer license production to other companies. I don't know if that's a thing really but I do know there is a point where a lot of medication can be mass produced by companies other than those who pioneered them. No doubt to do with licensing, or the lifetime of IP, etc.

Am sure all the other companies who are working on a vaccine aren't about to stop their efforts now either. So we could have a choice of vaccine soon enough.

Or, we could just have Darina Allen do a show where she can tell us all how to make our own with a bit of Ballymaloe relish.

given how mutable the virus is, patent expiry isnt likely to be an issue I'd say

 

[magicbastarder]

vaccine: yay
mink: boo

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I'm curious about this mink thing. Like, they identified that mutation and are killing every mink in Denmark. Was it just by chance they found that or are they routinely monitoring covid-19 in other species? I remember hearing ages ago that cats had caught it and now I'm thinking that cats are probably spreading it among themselves and spawning mutations while they're out and about doing their thing. And what kind of distancing is normally maintained between cats and mice and rats?

 

[therealjohnny]

I saw a woman wearing one of these in Tesco the other day, except she had the headband resting on her nose. I kept meeting her as I walked around the shop and it was all I could not not to tell her.