Coronavirus good news thread

SmallTown said:
Yup, if a drugs company gets close to a vaccine, imagine their shares to go through the roof. Makes me regret selling all the Pharms company shares I used to own!
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It's also why I'm fairly confident a treatment or vaccine will come to us quicker than what the experts say.
Imagine the money these big pharma groups will make if they are the first to find one, astronomical money.
 
RandySavage said:
It's also why I'm fairly confident a treatment or vaccine will come to us quicker than what the experts say.
Imagine the money these big pharma groups will make if they are the first to find one, astronomical money.
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I'm afraid it still won't. You can throw all the money in the world at it, I've seen R&D departments with billion pound budgets, it's still very hit or miss. Also there are a LOT of clinical trials you need to do before bringing a drug to market. These can not be rushed or shortcutted in any way shape or form (what if we create a vaccine that ends up being deadlier than the disease?) I agree the paperwork and compliance side of things WILL be expedited though.

The one hope we do have for a speed solution is the fact that pretty much everyone is looking at it, trying to find a vaccine. The hive mind.
 
SmallTown said:
I'm afraid it still won't. You can throw all the money in the world at it, I've seen R&D departments with billion pound budgets, it's still very hit or miss. Also there are a LOT of clinical trials you need to do before bringing a drug to market. These can not be rushed or shortcutted in any way shape or form (what if we create a vaccine that ends up being deadlier than the disease?) I agree the paperwork and compliance side of things WILL be expedited though.

The one hope we do have for a speed solution is the fact that pretty much everyone is looking at it, trying to find a vaccine. The hive mind.
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Have faith small town.
 
Jeremy Hunt tells Hancock what we should be doing:
One of the reasons testing took too long to ramp up is because it was all done centrally by Public Health England. The health secretary today said that he hadn’t decided whether it was going to be done centrally or with local government and I think one of the lessons we could reasonable draw from the slowness of ramping things up centrally is that this is something we should trust local government to help us with when we move out of the lockdown.

Hunt said in South Korea 1,000 people were involved in contract tracing. He went on:

This could be tested out in places like Yorkshire or Cornwall because those are parts of the country which have got relatively few Covid cases - and so we could start seeing whether it was possible to lift the lockdown by replacing it with this testing and contact tracing. So, that really has to be the next step.
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Some sense at last!
 
A good, fairly scientifically-detailed explanation of the WHO's mega-trial and the various treatments involved.


As the guy in the video mentions, they also have a separate video about chloroquine & hydroxychloroquine, explaining just how and why an anti-malarial drug might work against this virus - but also cautioning that it should not be over-hyped and detailing some of the potential drawbacks.
 
On R4 this morning
Human trials of a potential vaccine have begun at Oxford University, Prof John Bell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. He said he believed it went into man on Thursday, the first of testing it in a human being, following a range of safety studies.
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He went on to say how important these trials are in the first wave, as, after that, testing in a low viral population becomes much more difficult. He didn't underplay the problem of manufacturing billions of doses of vaccine though.
 
bear66 said:
On R4 this morning


He went on to say how important these trials are in the first wave, as, after that, testing in a low viral population becomes much more difficult. He didn't underplay the problem of manufacturing billions of doses of vaccine though.
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It’s a long, long road from here. It’s a start though
 
bear66 said:
On R4 this morning


He went on to say how important these trials are in the first wave, as, after that, testing in a low viral population becomes much more difficult. He didn't underplay the problem of manufacturing billions of doses of vaccine though.
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I think this is a trial by the team that have stated (rightly or wrongly) that they could be ready to start administering the vaccine in September, all being well. I believe the government’s new vaccine task force are looking at getting this vaccine into production even while the trials are being conducted, so an amount is ready to roll out instantly IF the trials are successful.
 
FabioPorkpie said:
I think this is a trial by the team that have stated (rightly or wrongly) that they could be ready to start administering the vaccine in September, all being well. I believe the government’s new vaccine task force are looking at getting this vaccine into production even while the trials are being conducted, so an amount is ready to roll out instantly IF the trials are successful.
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That was put to the panel in yesterday's press briefing who didn't answer who the lucky million people would be. Perhaps we could have a lottery where the winners get the vaccine and the money raised go to charities struggling in their support of the coronavirus epidemic. Food banks etc.
 
Artificial Intelligence being used to identify potential drugs for treatment, has completed a search of 90 thousand drugs and identified an already approved list of 31 candidate drugs and combinations, that the AI calculates may have treatment success.
It’s interesting because it looks at the drugs and assess them differently to how humans would

https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/...company-identifies-top-ranked-drugs-treatment
 
I've downloaded an app called Vodafone Dream Lab. Basically it turns your phone into a computer and helps other computers do calculations.

You can only enable the app when your phone is on charge so it's perfect to leave the app on overnight and you can do a little bit to help scientists solve problems. You can choose a project to support and I'm currently supporting a Coronavirus project.Screenshot_20200418-161516.png
 
I think another good news of this virus is that it should reduce the power of the insane and frankly ridiculous anit Vax movement. Now the world has realised a vaccine is the only way to restore things to normal it might shut up the crazies
 
SmallTown said:
I think another good news of this virus is that it should reduce the power of the insane and frankly ridiculous anit Vax movement. Now the world has realised a vaccine is the only way to restore things to normal it might shut up the crazies
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You would think so, wouldn't you? I was thinking the same thing. However, as I understand it, they are claiming that the fact that vaccines (in their view) actually weaken the immune system, is part of the reason this virus is killing as many people as it is. You just can't win with some people - they'll always find a way to twist things round to their view.
 
Liamo said:
You would think so, wouldn't you? I was thinking the same thing. However, as I understand it, they are claiming that the fact that vaccines (in their view) actually weaken the immune system, is part of the reason this virus is killing as many people as it is. You just can't win with some people - they'll always find a way to twist things round to their view.
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I guess some people are just stupid and you have to live with it.
 
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