Well there’s your first problem.
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Were they able to infect unvaccinated monkeys?
Well, either that or monkeys are going to rule the world.
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Buried in the NYT article about the Oxford vaccine:
Other scientists involved in the project are working with a half dozen drug manufacturing companies across Europe and Asia to prepare to churn out billions of doses as quickly as possible if the vaccine is approved. None have been granted exclusive marketing rights, and one is the giant Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest supplier of vaccines.
Cool, cool. And, uh, North America?
But the team has not yet reached an agreement with a North American manufacturer, in part because the major pharmaceutical companies there typically demand exclusive worldwide rights before investing in a potential medicine.
“I personally don’t believe that in a time of pandemic there should be exclusive licenses,” Professor Hill said. “So we are asking a lot of them. Nobody is going to make a lot of money off this.”
Bad news for the Americans here. We’re going to keep dying from COVID-19 while the rest of the world is vaccinated because big pharma can’t make enough fucking money.
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Richard Engel (NBC) is in doing a fluff piece on Sweden. Death rate is higher than US per population.
If Herd immunity doesn’t work well then they are really fucked. Imagine a response that kills as many as the US and next cycle you do it all over again.
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I’ve seen the director of that Oxford institute on TV a couple times; he’s been strikingly confident. Fingers crossed.
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Sadly probably isn’t the first and definitely won’t be the last. I can’t imagine what these people are going through.
But the curve can’t follow its path forever because it’s not going to 0 even if we stay locked down.
Just like it can’t go up forever because there aren’t enough people
We’re coming for you SC!
Thread providing another small glimmer of hope re: vaccinations. I can’t do enough science to assess the accuracy of the claim, but am choosing to focus on the idea that some of the people who can science seem to think that this is at least a solvable problem…
https://twitter.com/Biomaven/status/1253057417212047363?s=19
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I mean this completely seriously.
I massively enjoy these deep dives into trucking brokerage in a country I don’t live in. Including how you manage to make it relevant to a wide range of topics.
It’s always good to get a peak into another industry.
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This might be the first time I’ve heard someone say they “binged” something who didn’t work for Microsoft. Even if they actually used Bing.
Did Google do something to piss you off?
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When we predictably hit 4-5% tomo we will all freak out for 4-5 days and then next weekend we will all be more positive and then…
Somehow I’ve missed all the other times you’ve deployed it.
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Yep time for the predictable “I love that weekend lull but hate the Tuesday reckoning”.
Interesting. I never felt that way about it. I have always used it as a way to identify people who worked for Microsoft. Until now it was 100% effective for me.
Possible. But even though it doesn’t anger me, I feel like it does stick out like a sore thumb. Definitely more noticeable in speech.
I think most of us were sort of assuming a vaccine would come out eventually, so we were expecting this.
There’s been multiple vaccines around the world in Phase I clinical trials for about a month, so this monkey trial is substantially behind those trials, isn’t it? Animal testing comes before human phase I testing, right?
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lol wow, the super market I go ( Stater Brothers ) to in Southern California doesn’t even do one way. It’s a free for all, even in line. Although I’m currently in Calibama, the 8th district, which had two Republicans running for house since a dem came in third place.