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49 minutes ago, Michael W said:

All over the press today. Insufficient immune response in over 50s.

Exactly backs up the Government hedging its bets on the vaccines,  which is one of the few good calls that it has made. Any one of them could've flopped and it appears we have our first dud. 

The vaccine procurement and furlough (for the most part) are about the only things they've managed competently since taking office a year ago.

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41 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Except they didnt buy anywhere near enough of the present stock of Pfizer and Moderna meaning we kinda did hedge towards the oxford vaccine which still hasnt been approved. 

If they are going to do combined trials of the Oxford & Sputnik ones, I'd think they got some of the Russian one on order.

 

And probably the Chinese one too.

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If they are going to do combined trials of the Oxford & Sputnik ones, I'd think they got some of the Russian one on order.
 
And probably the Chinese one too.

It’s the Russians doing the joint trials. They’ve ordered Oxford doses rather then the UK ordering Sputnik
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59 minutes ago, parsforlife said:

Aye,  there’s virtually no chance of mass vaccination happening without Oxford 

Janssen also has a good chance of being approved and reckon it will be January time. They didn’t buy masses of this but it will help should it arrive 

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10 minutes ago, Donathan said:


It’s the Russians doing the joint trials. They’ve ordered Oxford doses rather then the UK ordering Sputnik

Why, "no".

 

“We offered @AstraZeneca to use one of our vectors so they can also have two vectors in their vaccine. AZ confirmed,” the developers of Sputnik V tweeted Friday.

“The new chapter of vaccine cooperation has started today,” another tweet announced. “We made an offer and AstraZeneca accepted it.

^^ Washington Post.

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2 hours ago, Oscar P said:

I have heard that peeing works on nettle stings but hadn’t thought of it being effective against Covid.

Oh to be a fly on the wall when the person being pished on hears "aww, f***, it's jellyfish, not nettles isn't it?".

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4 minutes ago, Manifesto said:

No. Well I suppose they are Russians, but it is AstraZeneca doing the trials. In Russia maybe, but it is AZ doing them.

Astra Zeneca and Oxford will no doubt be working with them, but it looks like the Gamaleya Research Institute will be conducting the trials.

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My vaccine guy informs me that the glaxosmithkline effort is pish? No chance of being used in next 9 months. Away to start again.
So thats some British technology down the tubes.
Not heard Boris on about it yet.
Every media outlet would also have told you that over the last 36hrs or so, no need for "the guys".
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Just now, welshbairn said:

Astra Zeneca and Oxford will no doubt be working with them, but it looks like the Gamaleya Research Institute will be conducting the trials.

Reuters

 

AstraZeneca said it was considering how it could assess combinations of different vaccines, and would soon begin exploring with Russia's Gamaleya Institute, which developed Sputnik V, whether two vaccines based on a common-cold virus could be successfully combined.

It did not give further details. However, its Russian arm said it would start to enrol adults aged 18 and older for the trial.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-russia/astrazeneca-hitches-ride-with-russias-sputnik-in-vaccine-race-idUSKBN28L0YQ

 

AZ have branches everywhere 🤫

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2 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:
29 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
Johnson and Johnson's vaccine should be going for approval in February. UK's got an order of 30 million.

How many vaccines is the UK supposed to have on order? 20m Pfizer IIRC, 5m Moderna due Easter time, 30m J&J and something like 50m AZ/Oxford?

350 million apparently.

https://www.cityam.com/which-covid-vaccines-has-the-uk-government-ordered/

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So schools in Wales and Germany move to online learning pre-Christmas.Stats suggest teachers in Scotland running at around three times the average Scottish infection rate,the EIS ballots its members to take out grievances against local Councils.Englans offers the option of schools stopping on the 17th.

Meanwhile the Sturg continues to say that schools will be the very 'last' places to close,Swinney says that kids have more chance of infection in the 'community's rather than in a cramped building with 1500 others.

Govt by Us for Them continues....

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