Coronavirus

Cardiffdaffs said:
Never? Ah you see this is why I dislike the internet at times like this. You can google any number of sources that give conflicting information. In fact there's too much information. It varies from Vaccine ready in a month to 2 months to 6 months to a year to never. We just don't know who to believe really do we.
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Well it takes around 5 year to bring a drug to market. This well no doubt be expediated in this case, public health authorities are throwing extra people at the problem and you can be sure big pharma companies are spending cash on a vaccine that can be very lucrative. Think to remember is we're not starting from scratch here. We have studied SARS and MERS for years now. The virii are from the same family so chance are we have a head start and are already looking at vaccines of similar genetic structure.

That's a long winded way of saying I have no idea when a vaccine well come out. Sorry!
 
SmallTown said:
Well it takes around 5 year to bring a drug to market. This well no doubt be expediated in this case, public health authorities are throwing extra people at the problem and you can be sure big pharma companies are spending cash on a vaccine that can be very lucrative. Think to remember is we're not starting from scratch here. We have studied SARS and MERS for years now. The virii are from the same family so chance are we have a head start and are already looking at vaccines of similar genetic structure.

That's a long winded way of saying I have no idea when a vaccine well come out. Sorry!
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Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has stated several times that a vaccine will be ready for human testing in April. Various other researchers and medical authorities in other countries have stated the same thing.

Coronavirus vaccine trials in April

He does go on to say however, that "a successful trial would also be followed by further studies and regulatory hurdles, meaning a coronavirus vaccine would not be ready for widespread distribution until at least next year."

They actually had a SARS vaccine ready for human tests in less than two years but by that time, the outbreak had pretty much died down so they never took it any further.
 
It is serious if you pick up the virus (as you have a typical 1 in 200 chance of dying) and currently everyone thinks that are at risk. It is also happening very quickly, healthy one week, dead the next. Normally most of us will know several months ahead when we are about to die. This all adds to the panic. It also affects the rich as much as the poor, so is deemed really serious......of course.

In contrast ...Every week in this country over 50 people in the UK with disabilities are dying as a consequence of the DWP assessment system.

Also in 1918/19 when the internet was not even a glint in anyone's eye, over 40 million worldwide died of Spanish flu opposed to 2200? with the current virus and the world survived 1919.
 
This is the first highly contagious animal / human mutant pathogen so it can't be compared with anything that has happened before.

So far, about 42000 recovered and 3000 have died.

I'm not sure why if this mainly kills older people with weaker immune systems is some positive factor. Why would a younger person not but be concerned about infecting elderly relatives and neighbours?
 
Redwurzel said:
It is serious if you pick up the virus (as you have a typical 1 in 200 chance of dying) and currently everyone thinks that are at risk. It is also happening very quickly, healthy one week, dead the next. Normally most of us will know several months ahead when we are about to die. This all adds to the panic. It also affects the rich as much as the poor, so is deemed really serious......of course.

In contrast ...Every week in this country over 50 people in the UK with disabilities are dying as a consequence of the DWP assessment system.

Also in 1918/19 when the internet was not even a glint in anyone's eye, over 40 million worldwide died of Spanish flu opposed to 2200? with the current virus and the world survived 1919.
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But surely, had they been able to stop the spread after 2,200 Spanish flu deaths, they should have?

Or are you saying we should wait until 39 million deaths and then play it down as not being as bad as Spanish flu?
 
bear66 said:
This is the first highly contagious animal / human mutant pathogen so it can't be compared with anything that has happened before.

So far, about 42000 recovered and 3000 have died.

I'm not sure why if this mainly kills older people with weaker immune systems is some positive factor. Why would a younger person not but be concerned about infecting elderly relatives and neighbours?
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Because we live in world where ‘I’m alright jack’ seems to prevail
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
Never? Ah you see this is why I dislike the internet at times like this. You can google any number of sources that give conflicting information. In fact there's too much information. It varies from Vaccine ready in a month to 2 months to 6 months to a year to never. We just don't know who to believe really do we.
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OK. The head the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and every reputable source is saying next year, if ever.

I hate these experts who are quoted on the internet.
 
They seem to be doing the opposite. Talking about record times to get to human trials. It won't be doing their share prices any harm either.
 
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