[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[dcro 10,210]

Big news from Pfizer. Their vaccine appears to be 90%+ effective.

[hckošice 14,787]

So the results are out.

 

2 044 855 Tested people with 13 509 positive so 0.66 %

 

In all of the 45 tested districts the results are more than half lower than last weekend. And in the 4 Districts which were tested 3 times the new results are quite impressive, for example in the distrct of Námestovo the result is 0.55 % positive cases this weekend, it is 88 % lower number than 2 weeks ago.

 

In Bardejov district it was 3.75 % during the pilot testing, last weekend slightly under 2 % and now 0.83 %

 

 

Btw fun fact in the northern borders regions many citizens took the opportunity to pass the test for free, sadly a lot of them were positive which increased the amount of positives percentage in these municipalitise. even in one village all tested Poles were positive

[rybak 3,178]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Big news from Pfizer. Their vaccine appears to be 90%+ effective.

 

[phelps 7,657]

6 hours ago, dcro said:

Big news from Pfizer. Their vaccine appears to be 90%+ effective.

really, big news...

 

they also said it's good for every people between 16 and 85 years old...a very good range (and it looks that it's quite effective already after the first injection, even if the protocol is based on 2 injections, the second about 2 months after the first)...

 

just a small technical problem...it must be kept at -80° C, which will make it quite difficult for many operators...basically, it will be up only to hospitals and very few other vaccine centers to inject it to the people, likely causing delays and/or troubles to quicken the operations...

[Fly_like_a_don 1,081]

13 hours ago, phelps said:

really, big news...

 

they also said it's good for every people between 16 and 85 years old...a very good range (and it looks that it's quite effective already after the first injection, even if the protocol is based on 2 injections, the second about 2 months after the first)...

 

just a small technical problem...it must be kept at -80° C, which will make it quite difficult for many operators...basically, it will be up only to hospitals and very few other vaccine centers to inject it to the people, likely causing delays and/or troubles to quicken the operations...

Yeah the temperature requirement is insane and the news is same as the pfizer vaccine is totally ineffective for low and middle income countries as they cannot store or transport at such low temperatures.

[phelps 7,657]

2 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Yeah the temperature requirement is insane and the news is same as the pfizer vaccine is totally ineffective for low and middle income countries as they cannot store or transport at such low temperatures.

well, I just read that Pfizer is taking charge of all the productive and also the supply chain...

 

apparently they're going to rent a lot of flying spaces from all the main couriers (FedEx, DHL, UPS) and they will produce by themselves both vaccine vials (made of a special thicker glass to avoid unexpected ruptures during travel) and storage cases capable of keeping those vials at -80° C for good 10 days (which should be enough to reach all the destination points and inject the vaccine before it gets useless/even dangerous because of bad storaging)...

 

however, it looks that Pfizer's is the only vaccine with such demanding procedure...Moderna's should be kept at -20° C (still a challenge, but not so extreme), but the others (Oxford/Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson and those coming from CHN and RUS) wouldn't need anything more than normal fridges (0 - 4° C)...

 

hopefully there will be enough for every people in the world, also for those living in low and middle income Countries...

[Fly_like_a_don 1,081]

3 hours ago, phelps said:

well, I just read that Pfizer is taking charge of all the productive and also the supply chain...

 

apparently they're going to rent a lot of flying spaces from all the main couriers (FedEx, DHL, UPS) and they will produce by themselves both vaccine vials (made of a special thicker glass to avoid unexpected ruptures during travel) and storage cases capable of keeping those vials at -80° C for good 10 days (which should be enough to reach all the destination points and inject the vaccine before it gets useless/even dangerous because of bad storaging)...

 

however, it looks that Pfizer's is the only vaccine with such demanding procedure...Moderna's should be kept at -20° C (still a challenge, but not so extreme), but the others (Oxford/Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson and those coming from CHN and RUS) wouldn't need anything more than normal fridges (0 - 4° C)...

 

hopefully there will be enough for every people in the world, also for those living in low and middle income Countries...

Here in India vaccine distribution blueprint is being prepared. Around 400 million doses of vaccine will be available by 2020 end manufactured in Pune, a big majority of which will be for India. 

[OlympicsFan 858]

It is quite interesting that the CEO of Pfizer is a Greek Jew and the CEO of BioNTech (the company that developed the vaccine) is a Turkish immigrant to Germany. 

[Grassmarket 3,377]

56 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

It is quite interesting that the CEO of Pfizer is a Greek Jew and the CEO of BioNTech (the company that developed the vaccine) is a Turkish immigrant to Germany. 

This is common in the USA.  Back during the ex-Yugoslav wars in the early 90s my brother worked in the same office as Serbs + Croats.

[rybak 3,178]

First case in .

 

Another bastion has fallen against covid...