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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...avirus-vaccine

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The virus will still be tough to conquer with a vaccine that lasts for years.

“It will be harder to get rid of Covid than smallpox,” says Brilliant. With smallpox it was at least clear who was infected, whereas people with coronavirus can spread it without knowing. A thornier problem is that as long as the infection rages in one country, all other nations are at risk.

As David Salisbury, the former director of immunisation at the Department of Health, told a Chatham House webinar recently: “Unless we have a vaccine available in unbelievable quantities that could be administered extraordinarily quickly in all communities in the world we will have gaps in our defences that the virus can continue to circulate in.”


Not looking good, is it, Hugh? As I said, this virus is not going anywhere soon.

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And we'll believe it when we see it.

There's also this.

The Government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said the R number for the transmission of the coronavirus remains below one across the UK.

He told the daily No 10 briefing that the epidemic continued to shrink – “albeit slowly” – by between 2% and 4% a day.

He said that currently around 0.06% of the population of the UK – 33,000 people – was now estimated to have the disease and that the numbers were “flattening off” rather than going down to zero.

“Don’t be fooled that this means it has gone away. The disease is growing across the world. It is coming down in the UK but it hasn’t gone away,” he said.