Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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zzr45 said:
Remember when this happened right at the start in S.Korea when 5 people hit reinfected and about a week later it was all retracted?
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The thing is, coronaviruses mutate, which is why we need a new flu vaccine each year. By the time we get a vaccine for this, we'll have had some form of Covid for probably well over a year, which begs the question are we developing a vaccine for the virus that was or the virus that we'll have in January?
 
Bruce Wayne said:
The thing is, coronaviruses mutate, which is why we need a new flu vaccine each year. By the time we get a vaccine for this, we'll have had some form of Covid for probably well over a year, which begs the question are we developing a vaccine for the virus that was or the virus that we'll have in January?
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I read something on that the other day, possibly from here?, but the basic premise is that it can’t mutate so much to negate the vaccine, otherwise it would a spin off of COVID.
 
zzr45 said:
I read something on that the other day, possibly from here?, but the basic premise is that it can’t mutate so much to negate the vaccine, otherwise it would a spin off of COVID.
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That's my understanding of the regular flu vaccine - that it only mutates a little each year, so the base vaccine just needs modifying rather than creating from scratch, which doesn't require the usual clinical trial periods etc. It's also my understanding, however, that because the southern hemisphere tend to get the seasonal flu about six months before we do, that the scientific community use that time to develop the modified vaccine. So when the industry is talking about producing a vaccine in January, I have no idea if it's for the January 2020 version of it, or whatever mutation we might have in January 2021, or indeed, as you say, whether the mutation isn't sufficiently big to negate the vaccine anyway.
 
With over 170,000 COVID-19 deaths to date, and 1,000 more each day, America’s life expectancy may appear to be plummeting. But in estimating the magnitude of the pandemic, UC Berkeley demographers have found that COVID-19 is likely to shorten the average U.S. lifespan in 2020 by only about a year.

news.berkeley.edu

Demographers put COVID-19 death toll into perspective - Berkeley News

Researchers calculate pandemic's impact on U.S. lifespan based on projected mortality rates
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Bruce Wayne said:
That's my understanding of the regular flu vaccine - that it only mutates a little each year, so the base vaccine just needs modifying rather than creating from scratch, which doesn't require the usual clinical trial periods etc. It's also my understanding, however, that because the southern hemisphere tend to get the seasonal flu about six months before we do, that the scientific community use that time to develop the modified vaccine. So when the industry is talking about producing a vaccine in January, I have no idea if it's for the January 2020 version of it, or whatever mutation we might have in January 2021, or indeed, as you say, whether the mutation isn't sufficiently big to negate the vaccine anyway.
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www.healthline.com

COVID-19 Will Mutate — What That Means for a Vaccine

The new coronavirus has already mutated a handful of times, which has many people wondering whether the mutations could lead to a more severe, deadlier disease. But the new mutations are extremely similar to the original virus and don’t seem to be any more aggressive.
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Decent, easy read on it here. Essentially it doesn’t mutate quick enough to matter. Flu is essentially the Usian Bolt of virus mutations.

I do wonder if there’s a lot of negative press coming out about how vaccines could cause further issues simply because it isn’t the Americans leading the charge. Think of all the $$$ they’ll be missing.
 
zzr45 said:
www.healthline.com

COVID-19 Will Mutate — What That Means for a Vaccine

The new coronavirus has already mutated a handful of times, which has many people wondering whether the mutations could lead to a more severe, deadlier disease. But the new mutations are extremely similar to the original virus and don’t seem to be any more aggressive.
www.healthline.com www.healthline.com

Decent, easy read on it here. Essentially it doesn’t mutate quick enough to matter. Flu is essentially the Usian Bolt of virus mutations.

I do wonder if there’s a lot of negative press coming out about how vaccines could cause further issues simply because it isn’t the Americans leading the charge. Think of all the $$$ they’ll be missing.
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That AstraZeneca are Anglo-Swedish and all. "That'll explain why those murdering sods aren't even arsed..."
 
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