Cam.O'Dear wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 10:00 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:33 am

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:34 pm See anything funny here?

10 November

The first effective coronavirus vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19, a preliminary analysis shows.

The developers - Pfizer and BioNTech - described it as a "great day for science and humanity".

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54873105

11 November

Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla sold 62% of his stock in the company on the same day the drugmaker announced the results of its COVID-19 vaccine trial.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pfiz ... ed-2020-11

12 November

Pfizer’s top scientist tells us the pharma giant is already thinking about a new version of its coronavirus vaccine for 2021 that can overcome one of its biggest limitations

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/busi ... 11-2020-11

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is already thinking about a second-generation coronavirus vaccine, shortly after saying the current version succeeded in a late-stage study. Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be stored frozen at minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit), an unusual requirement for vaccines.

I noticed that requirement of -70c. That's a very specialised piece of equipment, your average home freezer will go to about -18 if it is efficient and left closed. That suggests that whoever dispenses the vaccine will have to install something specialised and, no doubt, expensive. That will probably mean very few locations and big queues (not a good idea in a pandemic) or an appointment system, which will be slower.

Country's may have enough doses, it may have enough people sufficiently trained to give you an injection, but unless it has enough -70c freezers - say, one in every doctor's surgery up and down the country - the logistical problem of getting millions of people to pass through a bottleneck of vaccine centres will make the roll out of a vaccination programme take forever.

No wonder Boris Johnson was very reserved about the news, I think he's already been told we haven't got, and can't get, the freezers. Just like the PPE equipment we didn't have and couldn't get.

What is the temperature of dry ice in Fahrenheit?

A block of dry ice has a surface temperature of -109.3 degrees Fahrenheit (-78.5 degrees C).

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has sought emergency authorisation to start a mass vaccination campaign by the end of the year to combat the coronavirus in the archipelago, the Southeast Asian nation’s president said on Friday.
In an interview with Reuters, President Joko Widodo, commonly known as Jokowi, said plans were already advanced to distribute the vaccine across the entire country.

If approval is granted by the country’s food and drug agency, known by its Indonesian acronym BPOM, it will mean Indonesia - with 270 million people, the world’s fourth most populous country - will be among the first in the world to roll out a coronavirus vaccine.