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Mr K 15-11-2020 21:00

Re: Coronavirus
 
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36058378)
Just come up on the BBC as well

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54954698

The FTSE100 will be up tomorrow.

Sephiroth 15-11-2020 21:14

Re: Coronavirus
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36058378)
Just come up on the BBC as well

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54954698

Should be interesting.


1andrew1 15-11-2020 21:26

Re: Coronavirus
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36058378)
Just come up on the BBC as well

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54954698

From that link
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On Thursday, Mr Anderson posted a photo of himself with Mr Johnson at No 10 alongside the words: "Breakfast with the PM."
You would have thought that this meeting could have been done remotely or the could have eaten beforehand to minimise the time spent together. Isn't the government's current advice to work from home wherever possible?

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36058382)
Should be interesting.


At his key adviser will still be physically present. ;)

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Can't see much changing in Hull after 2nd December.
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Hull NHS boss calls for tighter lockdown and school closures

Chris Long said transmission rates are increasing because lots of people "are just going about their normal lives".

The UK's COVID-19 hotspot should have a tighter lockdown and school closures to reduce spiralling cases, Hull's NHS boss has said.

Hull in East Yorkshire became England's worst affected area this week as infection rates soared to well above 700 per 100,000 people.

This weekend, around 180 people are being treated at the Hull Royal Infirmary for COVID-19, with numbers expected to increase significantly in the next two weeks.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...sures-12133363

Chris 16-11-2020 12:11

Re: Coronavirus
 
A second RNA vaccine (same approach as Pfizer) has reported initial trials results and claims 94.5% effectiveness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54902908

This one is produced by Moderna in the USA. U.K. gov hasn’t preordered any of this one but is in negotiations.

Damien 16-11-2020 12:51

Re: Coronavirus
 
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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36058428)
A second RNA vaccine (same approach as Pfizer) has reported initial trials results and claims 94.5% effectiveness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54902908

This one is produced by Moderna in the USA. U.K. gov hasn’t preordered any of this one but is in negotiations.

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papa smurf 16-11-2020 13:10

Re: Coronavirus
 
My lager based medicine is 100% guaranteed to make you not bothered about covid or any other thing that might be worrying you, probably be 4 or 5 vaccines available very shortly as developers seem to be rushing them out.

Sephiroth 16-11-2020 13:10

Re: Coronavirus
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36058428)
A second RNA vaccine (same approach as Pfizer) has reported initial trials results and claims 94.5% effectiveness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54902908

This one is produced by Moderna in the USA. U.K. gov hasn’t preordered any of this one but is in negotiations.

With my statistics hat on, these two vaccine trials both being of mRNA type, now comprise something like double the sampling of any one of them. Very encouraging.

Damien 16-11-2020 14:23

Re: Coronavirus
 
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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36058430)
My lager based medicine is 100% guaranteed to make you not bothered about covid or any other thing that might be worrying you, probably be 4 or 5 vaccines available very shortly as developers seem to be rushing them out.

No one has done the experiment of if it's possible to drink enough that your breath is self-sanitising.

tweetiepooh 16-11-2020 14:34

Re: Coronavirus
 
If you drank that much then you'd be behaving is such a way that no-one would want to get close enough to be infected.

Mr K 16-11-2020 19:09

Re: Coronavirus
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36058428)
A second RNA vaccine (same approach as Pfizer) has reported initial trials results and claims 94.5% effectiveness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54902908

This one is produced by Moderna in the USA. U.K. gov hasn’t preordered any of this one but is in negotiations.

We didn't order any till today, and then in a last minute panic realising we cocked up. 'Hancocks half hour' again..... Then only 5 million doses which will only treat 2.5 million people and not until spring. The EU got 160 million doses ordered...

Lets hope the Oxford vaccine delivers or we've backed the wrong horse.

Chris 16-11-2020 19:18

Re: Coronavirus
 
To be fair, Moderna is only 10 years old and has never brought a vaccine to market before. HMG’s strategy seems to be to back a variety of potential vaccine approaches, most likely because different vaccination methods will show different levels of effectiveness in different sorts of patient. HMG’s chosen RNA vaccine is the one produced by Pfizer which has decades of experience and ultimately won the race to first results. It is also likely to be able to mass produce more rapidly and at greater volume.

To insinuate the EU has somehow made better choices because it happens to have some of Moderna’s product in its portfolio is absurd. That was a gamble, plain and simple. Great for them that it’s paid off, but let’s not get all moist and dewy eyed over them as if they’ve somehow done something intrinsically cleverer than anyone else.

Mr K 16-11-2020 19:37

Re: Coronavirus
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36058460)
To be fair, Moderna is only 10 years old and has never brought a vaccine to market before. HMG’s strategy seems to be to back a variety of potential vaccine approaches, most likely because different vaccination methods will show different levels of effectiveness in different sorts of patient. HMG’s chosen RNA vaccine is the one produced by Pfizer which has decades of experience and ultimately won the race to first results. It is also likely to be able to mass produce more rapidly and at greater volume.

To insinuate the EU has somehow made better choices because it happens to have some of Moderna’s product in its portfolio is absurd. That was a gamble, plain and simple. Great for them that it’s paid off, but let’s not get all moist and dewy eyed over them as if they’ve somehow done something intrinsically cleverer than anyone else.

Just a shame we've made the isolationist choices we've made over the past few years. This is a classic example on why acting together with other countries makes us stronger. On our own we're weaker and vulnerable in the marketplace.

Hugh 16-11-2020 19:37

Re: Coronavirus
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36058460)
To be fair, Moderna is only 10 years old and has never brought a vaccine to market before. HMG’s strategy seems to be to back a variety of potential vaccine approaches, most likely because different vaccination methods will show different levels of effectiveness in different sorts of patient. HMG’s chosen RNA vaccine is the one produced by Pfizer which has decades of experience and ultimately won the race to first results. It is also likely to be able to mass produce more rapidly and at greater volume.

To insinuate the EU has somehow made better choices because it happens to have some of Moderna’s product in its portfolio is absurd. That was a gamble, plain and simple. Great for them that it’s paid off, but let’s not get all moist and dewy eyed over them as if they’ve somehow done something intrinsically cleverer than anyone else.


^^^
THIS

Chris 16-11-2020 19:42

Re: Coronavirus
 
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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36058462)
Just a shame we've made the isolationist choices we've made over the past few years. This is a classic example on why acting together with other countries makes us stronger. On our own we're weaker and vulnerable in the marketplace.

This is bovine excreta of the highest order, and frankly looks suspiciously like something you’ve had ready and waiting in Notepad to copy and paste at the earliest opportunity.

Mr K 16-11-2020 19:45

Re: Coronavirus
 
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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36058465)
This is bovine excreta of the highest order, and frankly looks suspiciously like something you’ve had ready and waiting in Notepad to copy and paste at the earliest opportunity.

There will be many more examples coming over the next few years. I sense you realise I'm right hence your outrage....


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