SECOND Vaccine has ~90% efficacy!

[RobDownSouth]

Good news from the UK, a second Covid-19 vaccine has been shown in third stage clinical trials to have a 90% efficacy rate.

"Magical Thinking" still not shown to have any benefit though.

#HeardImmunity

 

[PrunusSargentii]

Total and permanent lockdowns until there isn't 1 case.


Or you're a white nationalist FASCIST!!!

#HERDIMMUNITY is for crypto-fascist alt-reichers ROB.

#LOCKDOWNSFOREVER = progress....get with progress or go to GULAG!!!

 

[adrina]

The Moderna vaccine is 94.5% effective against coronavirus, according to early data released Monday by the company, making it the second vaccine in the United States to have a stunningly high success rate.

In Moderna's trial, 15,000 study participants were given a placebo, which is a shot of saline that has no effect. Over several months, 90 of them developed Covid-19, with 11 developing severe forms of the disease. Another 15,000 participants were given the vaccine, and only five of them developed Covid-19. None of the five became severely ill.

The company says its vaccine did not have any serious side effects. A small percentage of those who received it experienced symptoms such as body aches and headaches.

While the two vaccines appear to have very similar safety and efficacy profiles, Moderna's vaccine has a significant practical advantage over Pfizer's.
Pfizer's vaccine has to be kept at minus 75 degrees Celsius. No other vaccine in the US needs to be kept that cold, and doctors' offices and pharmacies do not have freezers that go that low.Moderna's vaccine can be kept at minus 20 degrees Celsius. Other vaccines, such as the one against chickenpox, need to be kept at that temperature.

That means Moderna's vaccine can be kept in "a readily available freezer that is available in most doctors' offices and pharmacies," Zacks said. "We leverage infrastructure that already exists for other marketed vaccines." Another advantage of Moderna's vaccine is that it can be kept for 30 days in the refrigerator, the company announced Monday. Pfizer's vaccine can last only five days in the refrigerator.

That is good news.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/health/moderna-vaccine-results-coronavirus/index.html

 

[Dingobaby]

Poor bobo, he's stuck on stupid.

What a sad excuse for a man.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Virus infection levels are spiking worse than this past summer and the general public remains fixated on Trump's "will he or won't he concede" drama.

#QuarantineFatigue

 

[coati]

That is good news.

Yes, indeed, the second announcement of a private industry vaccine development since Biden was elected. Things are looking up for the future.

Now, if we could just get the outgoing Trump administration to make an effort to control transmission before these vaccines are released to the public... oh, wait, they still believe in the magical thinking approach to controlling transmission, while their cult leader plays with his balls on the golf course..

Sorry, my bad for expecting a true miracle.

 

[Lazaran]

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A vaccine is only as effective as the number of people who trust it enough to take it, and the ability to distribute the vaccine to ALL communities.

I'm a bit skeptical about the ACTUAL efficacy of these new vaccines and their safety considering the "warp speed" at which they were developed.

The preliminary results are encouraging, but final approval and the inevitable difficulties in distribution and compliance means the timeline for life getting back to "normal" is still somewhere around January 2022.

Of course Trump has exacerbated the difficulty of an efficient effective vaccine rollout due to his destruction of trust in science and institutions, and his refusal to concede which is interfering with the Biden administration's ability to conduct their distribution plan.

SAD!!!

 

[oggbashan]

In the UK, scientists are predicting that even if the vaccines are rolled out soon and enough people are willing to accept them, the spread of the virus is unlikely to reduce much before next June...