RE: AZN Vaccine impact18 Nov 2020 07:16
Do you think the UK Government is building new testing mega labs because the vaccine will solve the pandemic on its own? The virus is going to be here for a long time, the long term immunity of the vaccine is unknown, the virus is mutating (NCYT are very good at reacting and developing new tests), testing will go hand in hand with the vaccination program - see it as a massive study to assess the effectiveness of the vaccines, the vaccination program will take over 12 months to reach the target patient cohorts, public confidence in the vaccine safety is relatively low so might big be insufficient take up meaning virus can still spread quickly.
The vaccine is not a threat to those diagnostics companies that have products on the market but only to those who have not yet launched as they might be too late now.