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2020-04-24 Britain

Women's studies lecturer worries a UK-developed COVID-19 vaccine will increase patriotism

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 12:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Now that the kind of things I worry about - psychotic bitches like that having authority over our children. Not a government doing that's necessary to keep its citizens alive.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 12:27|| 2020-04-24 12:27|| Front Page Top

#2 These psychos need to be ridiculed (at a minimum) for the rest of time. Sickos.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-24 12:29|| 2020-04-24 12:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Coronavirus: First patients injected in UK vaccine trial

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 12:34|| 2020-04-24 12:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Down a $1.
TB/Not TB: getting harder every day

Posted by Lex 2020-04-24 12:42|| 2020-04-24 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 as Boris Johnson proudly safeguarded British institutions like individual liberty, and the pub, over lives.

If you put no-pubs-forever versus some-increased-chance-of-dying up to a popular referendum, I'm not at all sure how the British vote would go.

Posted by Matt 2020-04-24 13:18|| 2020-04-24 13:18|| Front Page Top

#6 This is why her American counterparts are squalling about homeschooling.

They're being deprived of recruits and muscle.

Posted by charger 2020-04-24 13:28|| 2020-04-24 13:28|| Front Page Top

#7 The Oxford team has three manufacturing partners in Britain, two in Europe, one in India and one in China. They are already making the vaccine at commercial scale, in the expectation of success of the clinical trials.

Posted by John Frum 2020-04-24 14:30|| 2020-04-24 14:30|| Front Page Top

#8 The Indian partner is the Serum Institute of India, which is making 5 million doses a month and scaling up to 10 million a month. Serum is the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world.

Posted by John Frum 2020-04-24 14:31|| 2020-04-24 14:31|| Front Page Top

#9 The vaccine is called ChAdOx1 NCoV-19. Stands for Chimpanzee Adenovirus Oxford 1 novel Coronavirus -19. There is a version called ChADOx1 MERS which is in clinical trials in Saudi and immunizes against MERS. Other versions for Rabies, Nipah etc. These all use the chimp adenovirus which has been made replication deficient. They inserted the gene for the Spike protein of the Wuhan Coronavirus. Other vaccines express other proteins. Their animal trials show good antibody and T cell production. They may do a clinical trial in Kenya and another in India. The Indian Council for Medical Research is fast tracking clinical trial approvals and inviting vaccine developers to test.

Posted by John Frum 2020-04-24 14:47|| 2020-04-24 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 From g(r)om's BBC link (#3) - The only way the team will know if the Covid-19 vaccine works is by comparing the number of people who get infected with coronavirus in the months ahead from the two arms of the trial.

That could be a problem if cases fall rapidly in the UK, because there may not be enough data. [Bobby's emphasis, and irony]

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-24 16:18|| 2020-04-24 16:18|| Front Page Top

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