COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[urban genie]

ah we’ll, another thread gone to the fucking political point scoring bollocks.

It hasn't though, it has been informative, why not call out the 2-3 posters doing it rathr than lament the thread

 

[KnaresboroughBlue]

No it isn’t.
The CSO, Patrick Vallance, said ideally 60% would get it.
The Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, hasn’t put a figure on it.
You’re talking shit as usual.

I’ll retract if you provide a link to prove me wrong.

I think Merkel said similar for Germany as well. About 70%.

 

[urban genie]

The whole worlds facing an economy hit, there’s no getting around it. Everything will change in a few weeks when the deaths get out of hand and we’ve got the most deaths behind China.

Exactly people come first, any government that puts economy or reputation first is a disgrace.

And some worldwide are

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Yes that’s all part of the negotiations. I read the other day that the remedy for Ebola was developed by research teams in collaboration across different parts of the World. Including UK researchers playing a leading role.

The containment strategies being followed by all the Countries indicates that any antidote is going to take several months to develop and implement.

UK research labs are very well respected in pharma, but the funding comes from big pharma companies - they will be racing cooperatively at the moment, and I would expect them to be passing info to each other as they go.

It's definitely months. Trump was told this by the pharma execs on camera a couple of weeks back. They said about a year, as it will need testing first.

It will be being used in a highly unusual manner too - it normally takes about 13 years to get a normal drug from patent to market - an antibody to a known virus is probably a bit quicker than that, but normal FDA testing is measured in years not months. This won't be.

 

[malg]

It hasn't though, it has been informative, why not call out the 2-3 posters doing it rathr than lament the thread

I don’t want to get dragged into the bollocks.

This was a very informative thread, but it’s now degenerating.

 

[blue44]

Exactly people come first, any government that puts economy or reputation first is a disgrace.

And some worldwide are

this all day fucking long !

arguing is just pointless with some people

there is a storm coming,and its going to be awful

be nice to each other people.

 

[Len Rum]

No it isn’t.
The CSO, Patrick Vallance, said ideally 60% would get it.
The Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, hasn’t put a figure on it.
You’re talking shit as usual.
I’ll retract if you provide a link to prove me wrong.

Good luck with that mate.
George is a bit of a slippery customer when it comes to the actualité.
@George Hannah

 

[SWP's back]

Just looking now: Germany 4100 cases 8 deaths. UK 1,100 cases 21 deaths.
I appreciate we aren’t doing a lot of testing here, but regardless of that, the difference in mortality looks significant.

I’ve read on here that Germany aren’t counting deaths where there were underlying medical issues.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

we have no facility to make vaccines in the uk.
We import everything.

that’s not true.

there is a very large UK vaccine production site in Speke.

 

[BosnianBlue]

it’s not really how Big Pharma do business though. They like the big bucks to be agreed before their products are distributed.

yep, that's why there is no vaccine for sars or mers, those financing science weren't too interested.