COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up

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Through a friend, from a friend married to the CEO of a large USA pharmaceutical company, word is that this thing won't run its course until mid 2022. Far too long to be cowering in place - maybe it's better to get on with our lives, regardless. "Damn the torpedoes....full speed ahead...!"
 
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31 October 2020
Carla Vizzotti secretly traveled to Russia to learn about the progress of the coronavirus vaccine. The Secretary of Acceso a la Salud was in that country last week and witnessed the tests of Sputnik V, patented in mid-August.
....Sources close to the portfolio led by Ginés González García specified that the objective in the Casa Rosada is to have a reliable dose as soon as possible to avoid a resurgence of infections in Argentina after the summer, as is currently the case in some regions of Europe...

19 October 2020
Russian vaccine: "Hospitals in Argentina will soon carry out clinical trials in the population"
Kirill Dmitriev, director of the Direct Investment Fund of Russia, assured this in the framework of the virtual meeting "The Sputnik V vaccine: state of development, advantages and prospects for cooperation with Latin America." He also said that they hope to close the agreements with the country in November...
....How would vaccination be coordinated in other countries? “Several countries will join the investigation, including the United Arab Emirates, India, Venezuela, Egypt and Brazil. We are also in dialogue with Argentina and with Peru to carry out clinical trials there. In fact, in Argentina there are two provinces that are about to supply contracts for the vaccine, and hospitals will soon carry out clinical trials on the population. We try to speed up our dialogue and hope to complete those agreements in November” Dmitriev pointed out ....

 
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Through a friend, from a friend married to the CEO of a large USA pharmaceutical company, word is that this thing won't run its course until mid 2022. Far too long to be cowering in place - maybe it's better to get on with our lives, regardless. "Damn the torpedoes....full speed ahead...!"
it's better to get on with our lives regardless of any predictions...and his guess is as good as yours or mine. None of the world's leading epidemiologists knows when and how it'll end, they say it loud and clear, that all they can do is take an educated guess based on the history of similar viruses and their scientific knowledge. The only thing the all agree on, is that once it's all over, the death toll will be negligible. Spanish flu came out of nowhere, did two rounds and went away on it's own - we still don't know why. The medical establishment and media just speculate. So avanti, a vivir 'a full', using the spanglish - or shall i say arginglish...
 
1 November 2020....5:30am
Coronavirus: After a secret trip to Russia headed by Carla Vizzotti, the province of Buenos Aires is preparing to vaccinate the population in 15 days
....The second of Ginés González García traveled with a delegation that included specialists from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health who, after the health workers' journey to Eastern Europe, are now working against the clock to finish designing a plan with which they will seek to vaccinate, in just two weeks, six million people in Buenos Aires, the province with the highest number of infected and deceased in the country....Despite the fact that the trip to Russia has already been made known in the media, the secrecy in Ginés González García's portfolio continues. However, Buenos Aires sources told LA NACION that the trip did exist. "We went to see the results of the vaccination and to arrange the purchase and shipping. The trip was a week ago, more or less, some returned and other officials are still there," they summarized.

Asked about the date on which the doses would be expected to arrive and the quantity, they responded: "December would be ideal. We will not know the exact quantity. As many as possible. We are preparing a structure, adding 3000 vaccination posts to vaccinate throughout the province in 15 days." Regarding the operation that is being mounted for vaccination in record time, they explained: " More than 2,500 vaccinators will be incorporated, who belong to nursing schools in the province, which will be added to the more than 2,900 who are already performing their tasks in the Buenos Aires territory in provincial and municipal dependencies ". "We are preparing a massive campaign to be able to vaccinate millions of people in a few months and achieve herd immunity that is always obtained by vaccination and not otherwise," explained Nicolás Kreplak, Buenos Aires Deputy Minister of Health. As they explained, the priority population to be vaccinated has already been surveyed: health personnel, those over 60, those over 18 with risk factors, police officers and teachers....

As was broadcast last night on the América TV program and was ratified by Buenos Aires officials, the Province has already started the processes of purchasing supplies such as syringes, needles, discarders, cotton, hygiene items, preservatives, refrigerators, among other essential elements for to be able to supply the vaccination points. In addition, they detailed that the Tomás Perón Biological Institute began large-scale alcohol production processes to be able to supply the vaccination points and have enough quantity....

 
they will seek to vaccinate, in just two weeks, six million people in Buenos Aires

That's 17,857 people per hour, or 297 people per minute, or 4.96 people per second.
 
i wonder if the russian vaccine will be as effective as their poisons. if so, this virus will be dead in no time.
 
1 November 2020
Bonus Track....
....The Government is working hard to achieve mass vaccination against COVID-19 before next winter. Not only the Ministry of Health is involved in the objective, but also the Ministry of Defense. Ginés González García asked his counterpart, Agustín Rossi, to plan a system for the simultaneous distribution of the vaccine throughout the national territory. The idea is that Hercules aircrafts transfer hope to the four cardinal points and that the Army itself continue its distribution by land to all remote points from the airstrips.
 
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