Coronavirus good news thread

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Interesting to read Oxford vaccine project leader Prof Adrian Hill is feeling pessimistic about their vaccine.

He fears there simply won't be enough virus in the community for the volunteers to get infected in the trial.

The virus is on the wane.
 
Karol Sikora has just tweeted this

Interesting to read Oxford vaccine project leader Prof Adrian Hill is feeling pessimistic about their vaccine.

He fears there simply won't be enough virus in the community for the volunteers to get infected in the trial.

The virus is on the wane.
That was said to be a problem a month ago that the window of opportunity was likely to disappear. They should have organised testing trials in a country where the virus was just beginning to take hold.
 
That was said to be a problem a month ago that the window of opportunity was likely to disappear. They should have organised testing trials in a country where the virus was just beginning to take hold.
I think they are in South America
 
That was said to be a problem a month ago that the window of opportunity was likely to disappear. They should have organised testing trials in a country where the virus was just beginning to take hold.
They were talking about doing the trials in other countries where the virus is more prevalent several months ago and said they were already setting up the arrangements for it to be done that way, if necessary.
 
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Interesting reading about some of the trials being undertaken-

The doctors here are looking ahead to a time - not too far off, they hope - when anyone with early symptoms will be able to drive to a testing centre, get swabbed, get a quick result and a prescription for a combination of effective drugs, before the worst of their symptoms take hold.’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52801858
 
OK, just found some of the original interview footage on the news.com.au website.

https://www.news.com.au/national/au...-trial/video/64146d6fb1b79b85eb9288b5a2b86cad

I don't hear him saying anything, at least in this part of the interview, about these immature cord cells "lodging" in the lungs.

What the blurb accompanying the clip says, and I think is probably more accurate, is that the umbilical cord-derived cells have:
“immune modulatory and anti-inflammatory effects” that scientists were hoping would fight inflamed lungs in infected patients.
 
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A few accounts from people in the high risk category who have survived the virus. Think it’s important to remember that just because you are vulnerable or high risk, it doesn’t mean you will be severely ill with this, should you be unfortunate to get it. I think this message needs to be pushed a little harder. Wonder how many obese, BAME, old people etc feel like they are waiting on death row at the minute. This isn’t necessarily the case at all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-52808094
 
A few accounts from people in the high risk category who have survived the virus. Think it’s important to remember that just because you are vulnerable or high risk, it doesn’t mean you will be severely ill with this, should you be unfortunate to get it. I think this message needs to be pushed a little harder. Wonder how many obese, BAME, old people etc feel like they are waiting on death row at the minute. This isn’t necessarily the case at all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-52808094
A few people on here would do well to read that.
People have forgotten it isn't a death sentence.
 
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