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vivster on 16 November 2020
RolStoppable said:
Barozi said:

200k next week for the US? Seems possible. Also, have there been any new measures (in the US)?  I haven't heard anything in a while.

We (Germany) will probably peak very soon (or we might have already).

Austria will probably go into full lockdown soon. (poor Rol)

Austria messed this up spectacularly. And true to form, Austrians will use this last weekend before the harsher lockdown to party hard one last time.

My personal biggest problem with all of it is the rampant stupidity that is going around. And unlike corona, nobody will be finding a cure for that.

Actually Corona could be the cure for that if you'd just let it do its job.



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curl-6 on 16 November 2020

Preliminary results suggest Moderna's vaccine, currently in the last stage of human trials, is 94.5% effective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vaccine.html



Nighthawk117 on 16 November 2020
curl-6 said:

Preliminary results suggest Moderna's vaccine, currently in the last stage of human trials, is 94.5% effective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vaccine.html

Great news.....94.5% effective rate is awesome.....until Covid-19 mutates.....Never underestimate nature and the will of all things to survive..



curl-6 on 16 November 2020
Nighthawk117 said:
curl-6 said:

Preliminary results suggest Moderna's vaccine, currently in the last stage of human trials, is 94.5% effective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vaccine.html

Great news.....94.5% effective rate is awesome.....until Covid-19 mutates.....Never underestimate nature and the will of all things to survive..

Once you have a working vaccine it can be fairly easily tweaked to match mutations, they do this every year with the annual flu vaccine.



Nighthawk117 on 16 November 2020
Hiku said:
curl-6 said:

Preliminary results suggest Moderna's vaccine, currently in the last stage of human trials, is 94.5% effective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vaccine.html

Not to be that guy, but this is kinda how I Am Legend started.

If it does, we're all fucked.  Game Over...



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Nighthawk117 on 16 November 2020
curl-6 said:
Nighthawk117 said:
curl-6 said:

Preliminary results suggest Moderna's vaccine, currently in the last stage of human trials, is 94.5% effective:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vaccine.html

Great news.....94.5% effective rate is awesome.....until Covid-19 mutates.....Never underestimate nature and the will of all things to survive..

Once you have a working vaccine it can be fairly easily tweaked to match mutations, they do this every year with the annual flu vaccine.

What if this one is different than the common flu? There are no guarantees in life.



curl-6 on 16 November 2020
Nighthawk117 said:
curl-6 said:
Nighthawk117 said:

Great news.....94.5% effective rate is awesome.....until Covid-19 mutates.....Never underestimate nature and the will of all things to survive..

Once you have a working vaccine it can be fairly easily tweaked to match mutations, they do this every year with the annual flu vaccine.

What if this one is different than the common flu? There are no guarantees in life.

COVID-19 is already totally different from the flu, not even the same family of viruses. Once you have a working vaccine against the disease, you can use that as a baseplate to build on, tweaking it to block new mutations and variations more quickly than building a new vaccine from scratch. 



curl-6 on 16 November 2020

These reports of 90%+ efficacy in multiple vaccine candidates is really, really good news. First attempts at vaccines often have much lower rates than this. Can't we be happy that immensely positive progress is being made, instead of constantly pessimistic?



Nighthawk117 on 16 November 2020

Your right in one regard....they are not in the same family of viruses...If you believe we will eliminate Covid-19 so easily then...God bless you... I hope your right...As for me, I am more cynical..



curl-6 on 16 November 2020
Nighthawk117 said:
Your right in one regard....they are not in the same family of viruses...If you believe we will eliminate Covid-19 so easily then...God bless you... I hope your right...As for me, I am more cynical..

Oh it definitely won't be easy, and a vaccine will not eliminate COVID overnight. It will take a long time for supply to ramp up and immunization coverage to become widespread enough to arrest the spread of the disease worldwide, and even if we pursue a strategy of global eradication, it will takes years to wipe it out completely even with effective vaccines.

This is just an encouraging first step.

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