Good news, but no chickens can be counted just yet. Apparently âsome reports have indicated this particular vaccine requires storage at -80 centigrade, needing specialist storage and distributionâ.
Prof Gary McLean, Professor in Molecular Immunology, London Metropolitan University, said: âThe vaccine is still some way off yet and will not immediately replace the established control measures currently in place. What must be remembered is that rolling out such a vaccine to the general population will be done in stages, with the most vulnerable and front-line responders first in line. Such a roll out also depends on how many doses of vaccine can be manufactured and storage conditions â two doses are required and cold-chain must be observed. This will take time and effort so will likely be well into 2021 before we see general availability.â
Some bod from W.H.O. I think, said they had no trouble with the Ebola vaccine storing it at similar temperatures and that was in hot countries.
We have to have something to cheer
Thatâs good. I believe some of the other vaccines being developed are not so temp sensitive. All good news, Iâm already cheering Bidenâs win, and we can cheer about a vaccine soon I hope!
As with a lot of these press releases it is not going to be available next week.
Whatâs a few weeks or months, after what weâve had to put up with, at least its heading in the right direction
Yes, health wise my priority has been to stay alive until a vaccine comes along. Nice to see progress.
So Pfizer has a vaccine almost ready and they claim â90% effectiveness with very few if any side effectsâ (the connection newspaper 12th. November).
I wonder then why the Uk government is seeking tenders for software to â process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) â
(https://archive.is/2JXqO#selection-961.72-961.155)
I thank my friend for sending me this information reported by UK Column News yesterday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDUIS2kUCbA)
- although he did tell me that sharing it could get me banned from some forums.
Not SFN though, I am sure of that.
Itâll probably go to one of Domâs mates of course.
But itâs not totally unreasonable - the vaccine has had only a small amount of safety testing as these things go and it is a novel technique.
But, more imprtantly, if you dole out 20 million doses of a vaccine you will get a few genuine reactions - which certainly do need to be documented and an absolute flood of reports of problems which are pure coincidences providing much chaff to sift through - which might be why they are asking for an âAIâ solution, equally that could just be because Domâs mate happens to have a half built âAIâ soution and the question is being tweaked to get the answer you wanted in the first place.
That is really tasteless - have a
at least itâs better than a Paul
OMG!! What a dreadful bunch. I couldnât cope with more than a tiny bit as completely populated by conspiracy theorists and people who are well out of their tree.
I am concerned about the speed that this vaccine is being rushed into production, and it sounds as if people in the MHRA are too so entirely prudent to make sure they have capacity to identify issues as quickly as possible. Adverse drug reactions happen and on an individual level can be a tragedy, but usually pretty insignificant at a population level.
yes Jane that was my first thought too, until when I mentioned that to my friend who alerted me to the news release, he pointed out that UK Column News was the only news outlet which revealed that alarming tender announcement. Very strange donât you think, that such an important admission by the UK government that they expect high levels of adverse reactions from the covid vaccine should be ignored by all the so called mainstream media.
He told me that I should try to put aside my inbuilt bias and look far & wide for my information and that what was once assumed to be a conspiracy has often turned out to be true.
Do you think he may have a point?
thatâs it then Geoff. Thanks for that - no need to look more widely then for information, Iâll stick to the bbc and the guardian from now on, after all, we know they always tell the truth - and it makes my life so much easier when I donât have to make the effort to search for and decide for myself where the truth actually lies.
I am a little surprised though that neither of these established news outlets have mentioned that very inportant piece of news about the tender. Perhaps they donât want to worry us.
It was reported in the Financial TimesâŠmainstream enough?
Interesting Geoff. Based on past performance the âsoftwareâ will probably end up as only a spreadsheet or else be ready for roll out in 2026.
I note the only award criterium is price. Always a stupid idea for something you actually want to work. I would have thought âTory cronyâ would be more accurate.
I donât see what artificial insĂ©mination has to do with this. Thatâs what it must be because knocking out a state of the art artificial intelligence application for one and half million quid sounds a bit unrealistic. Machine learning on that cheap.