Viral infections - Positive news

RandySavage said:
A vaccine is already there mate.

Just because it isn't reported doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They'll just be ironing out the kinks and making sure it has no adverse side effects before putting it out there to manufacture.
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A vaccine isn't quite "already there."

As I just mentioned two posts further up, there is a candidate vaccine that entered Phase I human trials yesterday, which is promising news because it puts them ahead of the previous estimates. We could still be a year or more away from an actual, usable vaccine though.
 
asredastheycome said:
Hopefully we will have something like the speed that a vaccine was made available for Swine Flu in 2009 which at the time was the fastest spreading pandemic ever.

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The thing is flu vaccines are regularly developed in a relatively short time period because each year's new flu strain (or strains) shares common features with previous strains.

Also, the Swine Flu wasn't a new virus anyway - it's the same strain (H1N1) that caused the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918.
 
"The thing is flu vaccines are regularly developed in a relatively short time period because each year's new flu strain (or strains) shares common features with previous strains. "

Thought I had read that this one has some common features with Sars and Mers.
 
More positive news. Only a 11% ride in infections in the UK yesterday. Limiting testing seems to be working at suppressing the epidemic.
 
RandySavage said:
A vaccine is already there mate.

Just because it isn't reported doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They'll just be ironing out the kinks and making sure it has no adverse side effects before putting it out there to manufacture.
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it's not quite as simple as "irongin out the kinks" There's a load of clinical trails to go through
 
SmallTown said:
it's not quite as simple as "irongin out the kinks" There's a load of clinical trails to go through
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Hundreds of not thousands of scientists around the world will ha e stopped any projects they are working on to join the race to find a viable vaccine, for financial gain, popularity and the guaranteed funding for other research projects for the rest of their careers. It's closer than you think .
 
RandySavage said:
Hundreds of not thousands of scientists around the world will ha e stopped any projects they are working on to join the race to find a viable vaccine, for financial gain, popularity and the guaranteed funding for other research projects for the rest of their careers. It's closer than you think .
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Any bit of positivity is welcome (y)
 
I’m a big believer in necessity being the mother of all invention. Whether that’s born out of hope or ignorance I’m not sure, but I remind myself that despite some questionable political decisions and actions across the world, the best medical and scientific minds out there will all be working on fixing this. Keep the faith 👍🤞
 
Also the vaccine will only work if people take it. I heard a pandemic expert on the radio yesterday making this point that we never learn from one pandemic to the next and one key failing is people don't take the vaccine and so threats are not eliminated. We would need a real drive here to get everyone to take the jab.
 
That's certainly the case. Someone posted that Italians over 65 weren't being put on ventilators which is worrying for how things might go.
 
That's interesting. I would have guessed they used an age range as immune systems act differently with age. Perhaps a young active immune system is a worst case.
 
bear66 said:
That's certainly the case. Someone posted that Italians over 65 weren't being put on ventilators which is worrying for how things might go.
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I read that there was a leaked document, and that it was planned for over 80s, and those under 80 who didn't score enough points on some 'system'. Apparently it wasn't approved yet, but could of course be happening 'unofficially'. Either way it's clearly scary.
 
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bear66 said:
That's interesting. I would have guessed they used an age range as immune systems act differently with age. Perhaps a young active immune system is a worst case.
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I think at this stage they're maybe just trying to see if there is an immune response at all (being such an early trial). I read that they'd sequenced some of Covid-19, and artificially created a non infectious version for the vaccine.... and that's what they were testing?
 
bear66 said:
That's certainly the case. Someone posted that Italians over 65 weren't being put on ventilators which is worrying for how things might go.
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Yes that was me on an earlier post. Also read on the ITV website that the same will be considered here when the beds are full.
 
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