Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

 

[peteblue]

China not arsing to buy any vaccines because they clearly know what it is

And what the next one will be......

 

[TyphooToffee]

What about the rest of us? Can Pfizer be forced to share their recipe?

 

[mill]

We have reached peak tin foil

Absolute pmsl at manufactured fog. I’m assuming the tweet is a joke like but still funny.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[peteblue]

A pharmaceutical company founded by Germans is going to save everyone’s lives

Isn’t it ironic

Yeah, a 12 year old German company with 1,300 employees and funded by America and Singapore works with 171 year old Pfizer’s 88,000 employees and saves the world.....now that’s ironic.....

 

[LinekersLegs]

What about the rest of us? Can Pvitzer be forced to share their recipe?

Doubt it, especially as they were the one company that did not sign up to the US government Operation Warp speed plan which shared in some of the costs of development.

However as I understand it there are several other companies with a similarly designed type of vaccine so hopeful those also pan out.

Edit
“The results are really quite good, I mean extraordinary" -Fauci on @pfizer vaccine results

This could also bode well for the @moderna_tx vaccine, which uses the same technology “which gives you hope we might even have two vaccines”

 

[TyphooToffee]

And what the next one will be......

I know people will scoff at this but I've thought it ever since I read about how the Chinese could conquer America in a non-military way. America's (Republican) paranoid sabre-rattling affects the whole of the western world.

 

[Nymzee]

• On a per-capita basis, the UK has built the largest and most diversified vaccine portfolio, according to data from Deutsche Bank, having pre-ordered more than five doses per citizen spread across six leading vaccine candidates. The UK is followed closely by the US, Canada and Japan. In total, dealmaking by the US, UK, EU, Japan and other rich nations has meant wealthy countries representing just 13 per cent of the world’s population have bought more than half of the leading vaccine candidates’ promised doses, according to Oxfam, the charity.

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This was from September so likely changed since.

Those Chinese and their herbal remedies eh.

 

[Catfish Blues]

You just know they'll make a mess of rolling it out - be shocked if the majority of the vulernable get it before mid 2021 when they should have the army on the streets pumping this into folk en masse

The logistics of getting the Pfizer vaccine to people will be horrendous. It has to be kept at minus 60 Celsius so you can't just stick it in a big fridge in an army truck.

On the plus side, I bought one of those bif chuff off super-freezer lorries a few months ago, so am available for hire.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[roydo]

The logistics of getting the Pfizer vaccine to people will be horrendous. It has to be kept at minus 60 Celsius so you can't just stick it in a big fridge in an army truck.

On the plus side, I bought one of those bif chuff off super-freezer lorries a few months ago, so am available for hire.

I thought I heard that earlier. The temp, not your lorry.

This might be the daftest thing I have asked in all this, which takes some doing, but it is defrosted to inject I assume?

 

[Groucho]

And once it’s been tested on Groucho, I’ll be next.....

43500 cases with no issues already done.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I know people will scoff at this but I've thought it ever since I read about how the Chinese could conquer America in a non-military way. America's (Republican) paranoid sabre-rattling affects the whole of the western world.

It's easy, cheap labour by disposal of employment health and safety, holidays sick leave and pensions. However, in China it was never implementing these benefits that made their businesses so exportable and shareholder so hungry for Chinese products. No Unison Unite etc in China.

What about the rest of us? Can Pfizer be forced to share their recipe?

I would hope if they are being given special measures to go to market earlier this is factored into descompensation normal patenting terms.

 

[navidson]

If Pfizer withhold the 'recipe' for this vaccine it would be monstrous behaviour

I know Capitalism is littered with scumbags but this is a whole new level