Moderna vaccine 95% effective

[Mitz]

Intentionally infecting people is already a thing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02821-4

We are only at a very early stage with these vaccines @StrawberryRipple. What matters, IMHO, is that there's no harmful side effects. Even if they turn out to be only 50% effective they can still make an incredible difference. What's most important right now is that they appear to be safe and they appear to work and work well.

 

[oldhippydude]

https://apnews.com/article/2nd-virus-vaccine-success-us-tests-5575a8a8ca3825a9bf39a5d234aba07b

Moderna’s vaccine is being studied in 30,000 volunteers who received either the real thing or a dummy shot. On Sunday, an independent monitoring board examined 95 infections that were recorded after volunteers’ second shot. Only five of the illnesses were in people given the vaccine.

Earlier this year, Fauci said he would be happy with a COVID-19 vaccine that was 60% effective.

The study is continuing, and Moderna acknowledged the protection rate might change as more COVID-19 infections are detected. Also, it’s too soon to know how long protection lasts. Both cautions apply to Pfizer’s vaccine as well.

But Moderna’s independent monitors reported some additional, promising tidbits: All 11 severe COVID-19 cases were among placebo recipients, and there were no significant safety concerns. The main side effects were fatigue, muscle aches and injection-site pain after the second dose.

Scientists not involved with the testing were encouraged but cautioned that the FDA still must scrutinize the safety data and decide whether to allow vaccinations outside of a research study.

 

[oldhippydude]

Blimey, it's like an auction on ebay, how many more potential vaccines will there be and how many more crazy bids, based on little more than a desperation to get them first.

11 currently in late stage trials. I read today.

 

["Misfit"]

UK has ordered 5 Million doses to be here by spring.
Each person gets 2 jabs enough for 2.5 million people
UK is 60 odd million people
So quite a few folks going to be disappointed.
Maybe it's a good thing half the UK population wants to wait.

 

[Jd_]

UK has ordered 5 Million doses to be here by spring.
Each person gets 2 jabs enough for 2.5 million people
UK is 60 odd million people
So quite a few folks going to be disappointed.
Maybe it's a good thing half the UK population wants to wait.

Yeah, im definitely in the waiting group

 

[zouzounaki]

UK has ordered 5 Million doses to be here by spring.
Each person gets 2 jabs enough for 2.5 million people
UK is 60 odd million people
So quite a few folks going to be disappointed.
Maybe it's a good thing half the UK population wants to wait.

they also have much bigger advance orders of the oxford vaccine and the pfizer one, and potentially others i don’t know about. i think 100 million of the oxford one and 60 million of the pfizer one.

 

[Mitz]

I think in total the UK has 300 million doses ordered from various sources.

 

["Misfit"]

they also have much bigger advance orders of the oxford vaccine and the pfizer one, and potentially others i don’t know about. i think 100 million of the oxford one and 60 million of the pfizer one.

Pfizer one
Who wants a 90% jab when theres a 95% one
Think i will wait til they have the 99.9% one

 

[oldhippydude]

they also have much bigger advance orders of the oxford vaccine and the pfizer one, and potentially others i don’t know about. i think 100 million of the oxford one and 60 million of the pfizer one.

I think it is 350 million doses of six prospective vaccines on pre order including the ones you mention.

 

[zouzounaki]

Pfizer one
Who wants a 90% jab when theres a 95% one
Think i will wait til they have the 99.9% one

i don’t understand your comments in these threads. is there a point you are trying to make?