Covid-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective in preliminary results according to Pizer.
Covid vaccine: First vaccine offers 90% protection - BBC News
Covid vaccine: First vaccine offers 90% protection - BBC News
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"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR -
The anti-anti-vaxxers, please run to the front of the queue!It uses a completely experimental approach - that involves injecting part of the virus's genetic code - in order to train the immune system.
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Wow, not really a practical vaccine is it?However, there are logistical challenges as the vaccine has to be kept in ultra-cold storage at below minus 80C.First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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Presumably you can take it out of the freezer to administer it.Originally posted by _V_ View PostOriginally posted by MaryPoppinsOriginally posted by vetranComment
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Freezer (domestic/commercial) at -80 deg c does not exist.Originally posted by d000hg View Post
Liquid nitrogen or at a push dry ice storage.First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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So based on 94 people. And needs to be stored at -80 deg c. And no indication of cost per dose.The data presented is not the final analysis. It is based on the first 94 volunteers to develop Covid - the precise effectiveness of the vaccine may change when the full results are analysed.
If I were cynical person this sound like a pump and dump news release....timed to coincide with the US election result.First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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They do though.Originally posted by _V_ View Post
Haier Biomedical
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Take your pick. It's not as though liquid nitrogen storage facilities are unknown in the pharmaceutical world. Some of them are even portable - certainly down to -86°C.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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A cure and a vaccine are not the same thing.
The disease continues to spread like wildfire, and a vaccine will do nothing to help those poor buggers already infected."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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That's why I said domestic/commercial.Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
Specialist scientific freezers, of course. But makes it a bit more interesting delivering billions of doses to every person on the planet?First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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