The ebola outbreaks were very local, and were dealt with in significant parts by WHO doctors.
The rotavirus vaccines can be stoored in a fridge at 2-8°C, that's far easier.




I think you all underestimate the logistical challenge of deploying a vaccine to literally billions of people within a few couple of months. Customary fridges being sufficient for the transport and storage clearly makes a huge difference.

Just let it end.

That other company with 70% is amazing news, shouldn’t be down played at all. It’s a regulation vaccine, non mrna based aka traditional methodology so easier to implement in a lot of
Societies that don’t have adequate infrastructure.

Don’t forget 1 month ago we all would have been sucking dick for a 70% effective vaccine.

Word on the street is the pfizer/moderna vaccines will be getting rolled out to immunocompromised and health care workers by December. That’s way ahead of any schedule I would have predicted, but it hasn’t happened yet so let’s see

90% with 2 shots is it not??? still ya hope we can get behind lockdowns before 2021 summer... shit so fucking stressful be happy even before spring but hopes not high for that

This post was edited by GarryGarry on Nov 24 2020 09:24am

I've read that the 70% figure for the AstraZeneca vaccine is just an average. Two shots, one month apart and with only half the dose on the first shot, is reported to lead to 90% efficiency. By contrast, if you apply two full doses (again one month apart), protection is only at 62%. The AstraZeneca folks say they're as puzzled by this outcome as we are, and will look into it over the coming months. Based on the unequal frequency of these two dosages in their study, these protection rates then averaged out to 70%.

So, tldr: it's not clear yet if a 90% efficiency can be replicated, but chances are that their vaccine can get higher than 70.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Nov 24 2020 09:33am

I got this info from a friend who has been following the trials VERY closely, and is participating in the Pfizer trial:

oh well still good 70% for this vaccine cuz easier and cheaper but still have other vaccines coming out so hopefully more good news in next few months with them as well

This explanation makes a lot of sense. Fascinating stuff.

In the long run, all the focus and resources being put into vaccination techniques because of covid will lead to huge progress in the field, similar to how the apollo program spurred various technological advances.

WARP SPEED!



I think only 30% of the population genuinely needs the vaccine.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Nov 24 2020 11:40am

That's the Blundesliga though

Put me as a striker in the Blundesliga I'll score 15 a season and I'm not even good.

This post was edited by dro94 on Nov 24 2020 12:00pm