COVID-19 vaccine development pipeline gears up

[UK Man]

You mean like there are microchips in Sputnik V vaccine that automatically make you buy and wave a Russian flag and sing "Kalinka"?

I hear Vodka sales in Argentina have risen sharply since the Sputnik V vaccinations started....furry hats with the hammer and sickle badge will be next!!

 

[Redpossum]

Cuba has 12 million people vs 328 million in USA - it is A LOT easier for small countries to implement policy on their citizens. Cuba is extremely poor without access to basics because of its communism - the people are the ones suffering. IT is no one else's fault than the those in charge who insist on creating an imaginary 'revolution' as an excuse to steal and not give people the chance to develop and move the country forward.

Cubans have access to very good healthcare, for free. Healthcare is not a basic?

As for the Cuban revolution being imaginary, you are saying that the dictator Fulgencio Batista never existed? Then the Bay of Pigs was imaginary also?

And as for Cuba being poor, you don't think the crushing sanctions against Cuba by the US government for the last 62 years had a little something to do with that? But just as a point of comparison, let's contrast Cuba with the US territory of Puerto Rico. Surely, Puerto Rico is a paradise, where there is no poverty at all. Golly jeepers! How superior capitalism is to that nasty old Communism...

 

[gracielle]

Astrazeneca made in Argentina with Packaging in MExico, was the original plan ..! Sputnik V made in Argentina ? I must have missed it altogether. But you read in 3 major news media..!

La vacuna rusa Sputnik V también será fabricada en la Argentina

El director general de Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, la empresa a cargo del desarrollo de la vacuna, lo confirmó este miércoles ante la ONU.De esta manera, junto a Brasil, India, China y Corea del Sur, la Argentina fabricará e...

750.am

2 December 2020
The general director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, the company in charge of developing the vaccine, confirmed this to the UN on Wednesday. In this way, along with Brazil, India, China and South Korea, Argentina will manufacture the active principle for distribution in the country and then for export....

Is this portal a reliable news source?

 

[gracielle]

It's in the works. By the 15th of January? Returning Argentina to Phase 0.
"El rebrote de casos en todo el país alertó a las autoridades. El decreto ya estaría redactado y se están analizando las consecuencias económicas y cómo evoluciona la curva para firmarlo."

¿Nueva cuarentena desde el 15 de enero? - Ruralnet

El rebrote de casos en todo el país alertó a las autoridades. El decreto ya estaría redactado y se están analizando las consecuencias económicas y cómo evoluciona la curva para firmarlo. Ante el fuerte avance de casos de coronavirus en toda la Argentina, el Gobierno ya habría redactado el...

ruralnet.com.ar

"Toques sanitarios": el Gobierno avanza con la idea de cierres nocturnos a cargo de fuerzas de seguridad para frenar los contagios de coronavirus

"Toques sanitarios": el Gobierno avanza con la idea de cierres nocturnos a cargo de fuerzas de seguridad para frenar los contagios de coronavirus

www.lanacion.com.ar

2 January 2020
....The problem, which the CABA authorities also recognize, is that the increase in cases is focused on young people. "You have to think about controlling the night more than the day, like what is being done in Europe," said a close associate of Rodríguez Larreta. "We do not know if it is a relaxation for the end of the year holidays, or indeed a second wave", they hoped from the CABA government, and stressed that the increase in cases (2,100 only on the last day of 2020) is due not only to the "more relaxed behavior of the people", but also to "episodes that increased the risks" (such as the funeral of Diego Maradona, the River and Boca festivities and clandestine parties) plus the duplication of tests in the city.....

Give me a break! It was imprudent and a MAJOR error executed by the federal gov't when they "organized" poorly the funeral of Maradona strictly for political purposes at the Casa Rosada in late November. This followed by the River and Boca festivities, the street demonstrations by the Polo Obrero and other social agitators, allowing the 24-hr vigil by women in the vicinity of the Argentine Congress to demonstrate in favor/against legalizing abortion, etc.

 

[artisans]

"Toques sanitarios": el Gobierno avanza con la idea de cierres nocturnos a cargo de fuerzas de seguridad para frenar los contagios de coronavirus

"Toques sanitarios": el Gobierno avanza con la idea de cierres nocturnos a cargo de fuerzas de seguridad para frenar los contagios de coronavirus

www.lanacion.com.ar

2 January 2020
....The problem, which the CABA authorities also recognize, is that the increase in cases is focused on young people. "You have to think about controlling the night more than the day, like what is being done in Europe," said a close associate of Rodríguez Larreta. "We do not know if it is a relaxation for the end of the year holidays, or indeed a second wave", they hoped from the CABA government, and stressed that the increase in cases (2,100 only on the last day of 2020) is due not only to the "more relaxed behavior of the people", but also to "episodes that increased the risks" (such as the funeral of Diego Maradona, the River and Boca festivities and clandestine parties) plus the duplication of tests in the city.....
Give me a break! It was imprudent and a MAJOR error executed by the federal gov't when they "organized" poorly the funeral of Maradona strictly for political purposes at the Casa Rosada in late November. This followed by the River and Boca festivities, the street demonstrations by the Polo Obrero and other social agitators, allowing the 24-hr vigil by women in the vicinity of the Argentine Congress to demonstrate in favor/against legalizing abortion, etc.

Regardless, those events are in the past and a distraction from the every night and day activity of youth and adults breaking the wear a mask and no crowding tenets. Authorize the security forces to confront them.

 

[garryl]

China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

MOJIANG, China (AP) — Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus.

apnews.com

 

[antipodean]

País por país: qué porcentaje de población ya ha sido vacunada desde el inicio de la campaña

El seguimiento pormenorizado de los vacunados con las distintas inoculaciones permitirá comprender la escala de protección contra el virus y cómo serán redirigidas las políticas sanitarias en la población mundial

www.infobae.com

Interesting to see Russia and Argentina on the same end of the scale in terms of people vaccinated by 01JAN20. One would have imagined to see Russia much further ahead...

 

[artisans]

More grist for the mill....
This link very highly informative, brilliantly illustrated on what's currently known, from start to injection on 3 vaccines.
Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna and AstraZeneca

From labs to jabs

The journey of COVID-19 vaccines from creation to inoculation

graphics.reuters.com

Their bottom lines:
- - Generally, a vaccine’s real-world effectiveness tends to be slightly lower than its efficacy in clinical trials.
- - In the real world, there are multiple, unpredictable factors, including how many, or few, people adhere to the optimum dosing schedule and timetable; how individuals’ immune systems respond; whether the vaccine was stored at the correct temperature; whether people know, or don’t know, if they have been exposed before.
- - It is also not known how long a vaccine will protect someone from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. BioNTech Chief Executive Officer Ugur Sahin has said he is optimistic the immunization effect of the vaccine would last for a year. Experts say that it is likely we will have to live alongside the virus.
- - The evidence suggests that the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna and AstraZeneca will help stop people developing the disease. Only AstraZeneca’s data, so far, shows signs that its vaccine may also help prevent transmission of the virus.

 

[Somewhereinba]

More grist for the mill....
This link very highly informative, brilliantly illustrated on what's currently known, from start to injection on 3 vaccines.
Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna and AstraZeneca

From labs to jabs

The journey of COVID-19 vaccines from creation to inoculation

graphics.reuters.com

Their bottom lines:
- - Generally, a vaccine’s real-world effectiveness tends to be slightly lower than its efficacy in clinical trials.
- - In the real world, there are multiple, unpredictable factors, including how many, or few, people adhere to the optimum dosing schedule and timetable; how individuals’ immune systems respond; whether the vaccine was stored at the correct temperature; whether people know, or don’t know, if they have been exposed before.
- - It is also not known how long a vaccine will protect someone from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. BioNTech Chief Executive Officer Ugur Sahin has said he is optimistic the immunization effect of the vaccine would last for a year. Experts say that it is likely we will have to live alongside the virus.
- - The evidence suggests that the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna and AstraZeneca will help stop people developing the disease. Only AstraZeneca’s data, so far, shows signs that its vaccine may also help prevent transmission of the virus.

This has been clear for anyone who actually understands the trials and results. Instead you have ignorant people running around screaming that the Covid vaccines are going to save the world when it's not even clear if they prevent transmission which is one of the major purposes of a vaccine.

 

[gracielle]

BioNTech founders warn of vaccine shortfall

The company’s CEO Uğur Şahin said his company is in talks with Pfizer to boost production.

www.politico.eu

AstraZeneca says it will boost vaccine production to 2M a week

Health authorities in the UK have decided to change their distribution strategy, prioritizing giving as many people a first shot as possible.

www.politico.eu