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Re: Coronavirus
That's good news on the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine from the point that it shows that spike protein vaccines seem to work well and there are plenty of those in the pipeline. The BioNTech vaccine isn't ideal needing two doses and a -80°C cold chain which will be a massive pain but it's a promising start at least.
It looks like this will be made in Germany at least in the first instance by BioNTech itself plus a contract company Rentschler so my German sales colleagues are happy :-)
On another note, we have been having great fun with a sick kid over the last week and have been no stranger to hospitals and it seems that there is a huge variation in COVID security between different hospitals. By far the most secure was Moorfields Eye Hospital childrens unit where you had to resanitise and get a new mask to be allowed walk in the door with security enforcing this. Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital was next with sanitisation stations on the door with a nice volunteer helping but the feeling was pretty much like entering a supermarket. Our local General Hospital (Watford) was the most lax. Signs everywhere saying wear masks and hand sanitiser stations everywhere like the others but nobody on the door.
This to me seems the opposite of what it should be. If the elderly and immunocompromised are most at risk, I would have hoped Watford would be the most secure while a place where kids with eye problems probably needing the least security..
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