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Islander said:
"If it works"
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As I say, the vaccine working isn’t guaranteed by any means, but I’m feeling cautiously optimistic based on what’s been said so far!
skyscraper said:
Yes it's great, but remember that there are multiple strains of the virus. Our vaccine will be for the European strain. If we go out of Europe we'll still be at risk of catching a different strain, and if anyone from outside Europe who's had the vaccine for their country's strain comes into Europe, they'll still be at risk of catching the European strain.
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Apparently multiple companies working on a vaccine have said that COVID-19’s mutations have not been pronounced enough to affect the effectiveness of a vaccine thus far, so it should still work for all the current strains regardless of mutations.

Besides, I could have sworn I read somewhere that the technology Oxford is using may potentially have the ability to protect against many different strains, but don’t quote me on that.
 
I was watching live sport on TV last night (yes, you read that right, live sport!). I was a small charity golf matching which was shown on Sky Sports but the main broadcast came from NBC over in the States, and one of their guest telephone guests during the broadcast was none other than Donald Trump!

So I am to you all with good news. According to Trump, people are not going to believe the news in just a short space of time. We are going to get a vaccine and/or a cure in no time at all, much sooner than you think. He was normality back as soon as possible; none of this social distancing or wearing masks. He wants to see huge crowds of people back at sporting events with "people on top of each other" in a matter of a few months.

Incredible! All his words and thoughts I must add. How this man is President of the USA I will never know!
 
Islander said:
"If it works"
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If people take up the vaccine


I think there will be a considerable number who refuse to have it given its a fast tracked vaccine with less human trials than usual. I feel somewhat nervous myself about the prospect of having a substance injected into my body which has had minimal testing.
 
I think uptake of this vaccine will still be high enough for distancing to be removed and for the disease to be controlled by a considerable margin. With the amount of stuff about “vaccine is the path back to normality” being bandied about in the media, I think the vast majority of people will be very keen to be immunised.

Even though the process has been accelerated compared to regular vaccine development, the governments and pharmaceutical companies will not just approve any old vaccine. They will still have ensured that it works, and lots of people are still being tested. I’d imagine part of what’s helped accelerate the development of this vaccine is the amount of money being thrown at it compared to previous vaccine developments, which I’d imagine helps to test more people in a smaller period of time.

Many like to compare COVID-19 to previous vaccine developments, like Ebola, for example, but it’s worth remembering that those were not global pandemics bringing the world to its knees, and did not get anywhere near the same amount of money thrown at developing vaccines for them as COVID-19 has.

A lot may be riding on this vaccine, but the pharmaceutical companies are still doing exactly the same tests to ensure that it works, and will not approve a faulty vaccine. If and when a vaccine eventually comes, whether that’s the Oxford vaccine in September or another vaccine at a later date, I will go and get vaccinated, and put my full faith in the vaccine to protect me from COVID-19 (although as my mum tested positive a month or so back and my dad and sister displayed textbook symptoms too, it’s very likely I’ve already had it and been asymptomatic).
 
Old Bailey Trials have restarterd today with Social Distancing measures in place.

The World Health organisations decision making body is meeting to discuss an investigaton in to the virus which has been backed by China.
 
I have an excuse for farting. I am testing the Anosmia symptom of covid.

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Promising news on the vaccine front; US company Moderna now has evidence that their vaccine trains the human immune system to respond to coronavirus in the early human trials without infecting humans: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52677203

Along with the Oxford candidate, I think things are beginning to look very promising for at least one vaccine candidate to have been found by the end of 2020!
 
When In October tho, I could be wrong but around Octoberish time it starts getting quite cold so what sort of tourism we on about?. I can’t see another bank holiday helping the situation to be fair.
 
Around the half term week, So presuming that it would be tagged onto the end of the holiday
 
I have very good news; remember the cases of second positive tests in South Korea that everyone was worried about? Well, a recent study of 285 of these cases by the South Korean equivalent of the CDC suggests that these tests are definitely only picking up traces of dead virus, and most importantly, these cases definitely cannot pass the virus on to others: https://apple.news/AVrU3sgKVQ_iAN8fcJJ7sCg

This is very promising news, and it could make antibody tests look like a better long-term solution, at least for the time being!
 
Christ. I cannot think of anything worse than being on a rammed beach at the best of times, never mind with the current situation we find ourselves in. Looks like it has been the same around the county; I saw it reported that there was a 40 minute queue to use the one public toilet that was open in Skegness.
 
See the more I think about the more it makes sense what the welsh assembly have done. They knew if they relaxed restrictions and let us go about on our way then it would lead to scenes like this. But if we keep the restrictions till after bank holiday then it’s a better chance of keeping control of the situation.
 
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