DOOM: Vaccines

[AtW]

" Coronavirus vaccine will be only 50pc effective, warns head of UK taskforce"

A Covid-19 vaccine is likely to be only 50 per cent effective, the chairman of the UK Vaccine Taskforce has said.

Kate Bingham said any vaccine capable of immunising against the virus would probably be as effective as the flu vaccine.

“The vaccines we have for flu are about 50 per cent effective,” she said.

“We shouldn’t assume it’s going to be better than a flu vaccine, because that’s an equivalent – it’s a mutating … respiratory virus that gets in through the nose and eyes and respiratory tract.”"

Coronavirus vaccine will be only 50pc effective, warns head of UK taskforce

[_V_]

If it's 50% effective, we can just take it twice.

[Paddy]

If it's 50% effective, we can just take it twice.

Covid-19 maybe here to stay and may have to be a way of life.

[Old Greg]

If it's 50% effective, we can just take it twice.

Unless that makes it 75% effective.

[Old Greg]

Covid-19 maybe here to stay and may have to be a way of life.

It is here to stay. Fingers crossed it just becomes part of the annual winter respiratory disease cycle and we have the immunity, vaccines and treatments to manage it. 1 or 2 nasty winters to get through first though.