COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[blueparrot]

the first case of UK transmitted covid 19 was February 28th.

Yet we know 2 people at least from different parts of the country had it at Wembley.1st March.

 

[Rammy Blue]

And where do you think the oz guy got it ?

Our best guesses would be when he was flying into the U.K. or at the meetings he had in London prior to meeting up with us at the golf club.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Karen got it quick then, the league cup final was next day ! Or have I been Clarkied ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Let’s say the vaccine is passed in September(although that is extremely unlikely) how long does production take? Do we have the ‘ingredients’ make enough to roll it out nationwide and then the infrastructure to roll it out globally?

If September is when it’s ready then saying the vulnerable are best staying in doors for a few more months doesn’t seem particularly extreme to me

First, I would be staggered if there was a working vaccine ready for mass use before this time next year.

RNAs are chains of subunits. RNA viruses are such that they inveigle their way into body cells, and get themselves replicated by the cell's own machinery.
A lot of vaccines are similar to the main virus, but with a few changes such that the RNA doesn't do anything bad (or at least gives a very minor dose, in some cases) when it's replicated.
What the vaccine still has to do is provoke the immune response of the body to a pathogen, creating the antibodies that fight it off (one mechanism is that the antibody binds around a part of the virus, and prevent it doing anything).

For RNA vaccines, making it then is probably not that difficult, as machines will make it automatically. However, you're still looking at months before there's mass dosage. I can't see mass immunisation being an automatic plan, unless Covid-19 keeps coming back.

There are other immunisation principles which could be followed - anything that provokes the immune response would work, and that doesn't necessarily have to be an RNA vaccine (I expect it would be a main aim though).

 

[SWP's back]

Was it around this time last year ?

No. Nor was it around at Christmas.

 

[SWP's back]

So you don't know.

He knows it wasn’t around in December.

 

[Newman Noggs]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom

Cheers GDB. So the first cases were recorded in late January. Bearing in mind that hardly anyone was tested it was clearly knocking around for some time prior to that. Late December/early January I would say but, like everyone else on here, I don't know for certain.

 

[west didsblue]

That's reassuring, thanks Chippy.

Just out of interest, do you believe that the first person to catch Covid19 in the UK got it on 5th March ?

If not, since you evidently know these things, how long before that did it arrive ? A day ? A week ? A month ? 2 months ?

5 March was the first death so it would have been early Feb probably.

 

[Newman Noggs]

He knows it wasn’t around in December.

He doesn't.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Not sure “staying in” means you have to stay within your lounge mate. Of course you can do DIY and odd jobs around your home.

Presumably part of it is to provide a possible distraction for kids, as birds come to the garden.