Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection
The vaccine is a "significant step" forward for getting life back to normal, but challenges remain.
www.bbc.co.uk
Vaccine progress?
- Thread starter nitram
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Can't help thinking that we've had flu vaccines for years but hundreds of thousands still die from it every year.
It's a new virus and it's not going t go away. I think we just have to add it to the list of bugs that are ever-present...
(Apologies for glass-half-empty response.)
It's a new virus and it's not going t go away. I think we just have to add it to the list of bugs that are ever-present...
(Apologies for glass-half-empty response.)
with the flu jab, there are different strains of the flu that are not covered with the vaccine so they change it each year
Reading up on this totally new way of making a vaccine it sounds like no mater what strain of Covid mutates like flu this too could be modified accordingly. The big problem initially is vaccinations almost the whole population of the world with both injections and the, if needed, doing it every year as with the flu jab which is only given to a limited number of citizens worldwide.
I'm a naturally cautious person and was talking to friend earlier who is not easily convinced. It will be wonderful if a vaccine is available by the spring, but it has all the checks to go through first.
With the flu vaccine a considerable amount of protection is by herd immunity, people can get vaccinated and still get flu.
Some top priority people may still rely on other people being vaccinated.
I've not seen a reliable source of the expected effectiveness of the new vaccine. Media says at least 90%.
EDIT
Found
Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...d-biontech-announce-vaccine-candidate-against .
http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/inactivated-flu-vaccine .
Some top priority people may still rely on other people being vaccinated.
I've not seen a reliable source of the expected effectiveness of the new vaccine. Media says at least 90%.
EDIT
Found
Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...d-biontech-announce-vaccine-candidate-against .
http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/inactivated-flu-vaccine .
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