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yes i am sure thats right. interesting research in Australia which started before the disease was widely known. no doubt there will be some dead ends. interestingly in italy we have not had the bad behavior on beaches such as Bournemouth. everyone has worn masks from the start and gloves in food shops. masks are not compulsory but de rigueur. our infection rate has fallen quite well
Sorry to hear Bruce. Yes malaria is and has been a huge killer throughout time. Getting back to COVID, I believe it’s the current modus operandi to manufacture drugs ‘at risk’ even before knowing efficacy. You shouldn’t read too much into that. As I say I’ll keep fingers crossed for all of them but imo I wouldn’t bank too heavily on the first wave of vaccines being effective enough. Normally takes more time to produce a high standard effective vaccine.
Well I have just read Dr Fauci's remarks. Of course he is Trump's bete noir. He said he is cautiously optimistic that there will be an effective vaccine by the end of the year but it will not be available to all Americans until 2021. Jus because there has not been a vaccne before does not mean there will not be one now. Oxford had already done research prior to the pandemic. There are likely to be around 4 vaccines based on different science - for istance the joint venture between Astra Zeneca and Sanofi for which they have received orderes prior to approval. Did you know that the biggest killer one way or another is mosquitos. A friend of mines fiancee was kille by Dengue in Philippines.
Cautious Bruce not cynical. As we stand at the moment their has never been a vaccine for a Coronavirus or Rhinovirus. HIV has never had a vaccine for it despite it being around in the wider population since the 70’s. Dengue fever vaccination actually made the virus worse and was canned. It’s a difficult thing to do and to achieve high efficacy which is critical, even harder. I’m fully behind the attempts to get a vaccine but not to the detriment of therapeutics. The balance of investment has imo been wrong to this point. Best of luck to all working on treatments, the world and all of us certainly need it.
Oxford vaccine on phase 3 trial in action now. Why so cynical. We lead the world. I shall be vaccinated in Italy or UK as soon as I can Italians do not have feelings of doubt on vaccinations. They are however hypochondriac . Will you be vaccinated yourself
I know all that Bruce. Expert was Dr Fauci, one of America’s top people, reported on sky news an hour ago. I agree we need vaccine and therapeutics although I have always taken the Oxford vaccine news with a pinch of salt. Originally we were promised September, then we were told 80% probability of success by them, both of these have slipped. Combined with the mistrust of vaccines and the scalability they would need for it to be effective it won’t be in place anytime soon. Also politically with the USA and CHINA at each other’s throats and populist, dictatorial leaders in place around the world (Trump, Putin, Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince, Brazilian leader etc) it’s going to be a hell of a job getting all those characters to be caring and sharing. I hope like everyone else they pull it out the hat but I wouldn’t wager on it.
We have this vaccine vs treatment discussion on this board a lot. It's as if it's one or the other when there will be huge use for both. The timeline of vaccine development will however have an effect on the demand for treatments. The longer a vaccine takes the more demand there will be for treatments that are approved. On the development for a vaccine, we have to remember that the promising oxford vaccine has yet to be tested on at risk people (>55 with co-morbidity or >65) which is exactly where SNG001 will be most beneficial. In my mind that'll be the make or break in their development.
Miggy 007 you say experts say a vaccine will be only 50% effective. Who are these experts and where are their comments. The Oxford vaccine has no such caveats We need vaccines to prevent infection AND treatments such as sinairgen for those infected already.
do not forget flu kills on average 17000 UK people a year
We are scared of this virus because it kills. If it didn't kill then it would be much like catching any other flu. A cure is by far the better investment and SNG is the best cure so far
According to the experts they are now saying a vaccine could only be 50% effective. Not sounding great. As for SNG, the fact their market cap is stabilising well over £200m should attract bigger II’s. The shares liquidity has improved beyond recognition and clearly their prospects as a company. :)
Japan will buy 120 million doses of AstraZeneca Plc's experimental COVID-19 vaccine from early next year, its health minister said on Friday, adding that domestic pharmaceutical firms would help in supplying the drug.
The agreement with the British drugmaker comes after Japan announced a deal last week to buy 120 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE.
I feel governments of rich counties (US, UK, Japan) are blindly diving in head first to be first in line to procure one or the other, or both, of these vaccines in the hope that one or both of them might work. It makes good newspaper headlines and reassures a wary public that their governments are doing something for their citizens. However, as we know vaccines, even when they are approved, won't help those people who are suffering with the virus. More emphasis needs to be put on therapeutics, and of course our product SNG is a main contender...
Re. your post, what's your thinking on this given that SNG is a therapeutic remedy.