Sure, you start production before testing is complete in this case. But distribution before testing is complete is unethical and dangerous and dumb. You’re not just texting for effectiveness, you’re testing for safety. You roll out a wrong vaccine too early and you could kill more than the virus itself.
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Typical is what, 4-5years? Only so many corners you can cut. Only so many steps you can parallelize. 2021 is Optimistic imo. Not unrealistic, but 2022 isn’t terribly unlikely.
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I’ve read that since the virus gains cell entry via the ACE-2 receptor, which is also somehow involved with regulating blood pressure and has something to do with diabetes, that the safety concerns for vaccine candidates may be particularly important for this vaccine. Although apparently not all of the current CV-19 vaccine candidates take the same approach, so it may be less of a concern for some than others.
Your Aussie google doesn’t acknowledge UK#1’s leading edge performance.
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The big street on the right is the one that the Australian charged across looking the wrong way for cars and I had to save his life.
Ok, it didn’t really happen like that, but close enough for the internet.
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That photo is so clean it looks more like an artists impression.
Economic slowdown could end up saving lives. Never know. It really could make lives better if people learned something. I’ve posted some doom and gloom about what I think the impact could be, but it could be a lot of things. It’s at an unprecedented level as far as I’ve been able to find and people don’t understand and can’t predict these systems with a trillion variables (the economy - social behavior).
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I’m getting more and more miffed by that picture. I drive around LA ALL the time and it’s not rare at all over the last like 10 years at least for me to be like “wow, it’s really clear and beautiful out”. That is absolutely not a brand new thing that has never been seen before covid.
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Are you sure that’s an actual photograph because it looks unnaturally clear for a modern polluted city with a population of 20 million?
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Update from Cuomo:
Recent daily deaths
April 2: 562
April 3: 630
April 4: 594
April 5: 599
April 6: 731
April 7: 779
April 8: 799
April 9: 777
April 10: 783
New hospitalizations and intubations continue to be down
Are they only down because people who would be admitted if space was available are being sent home and in many cases eventually dying at home? Do we know where things stand regarding capacity?
The Javits Center with 2,500 COVID-only beds is largely empty, and other planned field hospital projects have been put on hold. So I think that’s a good sign that we still have capacity. Even so, real hospitals are still chock full. The total number of patients on ventilators actually declined yesterday, which is a very encouraging sign.
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Good to plan for the worst and have some extra though it’s clear to me that with all the home deaths, there are people who SHOULD be in a hospital setting.
The NY death rate is terrible. When you take a week lag between positives and deaths it’s 7-9 percent.
I was thinking about additional effects of people staying at home vs. going to work/school, and the thought crossed my mind about the 1/3 or 1/2 of food that is wasted in the U.S. That food is normally thrown out after it is purchased, but now, it is being thrown out before being purchased, and that apparently makes it tragic. Not the fact that the system is set up to ensure profits can be made from selling food, and that there is no technology in place to absorb excess for distribution to starving children.
Another factor in why things aren’t going well in the US is that there’s literally no good information coming from anywhere. Like my county has a website with a graph of new cases per day. There were a couple of weeks of 20-25 per day, but then it shows that there’s only been one or two per day over the last week. The only way to interpret that information is that it’s almost over here, unless you know that that can’t be true. Which leads to you realizing that it takes up to 10 days for a test to come back, so the numbers for the last week are certainly going to get higher.
Everyone I interact with, including radio djs I’ve heard, seems to think we’ll be back to normal in 2-4 weeks, even though it’s clear that that can’t happen until there’s a vaccine or herd immunity.
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Are you sure? Tomorrow is Easter and I am pretty sure things would be vastly improved by Easter and we might be getting back to normal.
Can you double check?
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Spray Tan metrics?
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Eggs around me now cost 4x what they did a month or so ago, supposedly due to supply issues. And they are just tossing a large number of them?
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