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Agreed - it looks like the 'coordinated media response' has run it's course !
Now a wide ranging update would be nice . . . .

Just checking you're still awake Ray ! Of course - AZ/Oxford and Pfizer/BioNtech . . .

Konar yes thats the Pfizer/Oxford project moving along apace it seems - in Nottingham too ?

"The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said" - I've seen that mooted elsewhere in recent weeks and let's hope it proves to be correct in the UK - the People and the Economy are both at the end of a tether. ATB

"Roche has doubled down on a partnership with UK biotech Oncimmune looking at how autoantibodies can affect patients’ clinical response to cancer immunotherapies. Autoantibodies are produced by the immune system and directed at one or more proteins in the body, which may include some which target tumour cells." https://pharmaphorum.com/news/roche-signs-up-with-oncimmune-to-explore-immunotherapy-responses/?

Thanks for posting Crumbs, and Inan for comments. I'm guessing that 'shortly' will still mean 2021 as scheduled before but early 2021, in these circumstances, would be good.

As my 07.47 - "Just making a point about publicising the locations of public figures. It's inadvisable IMO." Looking at that 'tweet' - now everyone knows where BJ lives LOL. Seriously though - the Press should be rewarded for such behaviour by being sent behind the barriers at the entry end of Downing St. Sky News - get out there ! I don't often feel sorry for Matt Hancack btw.

"Another giant pharmaceutical company has thrown its hat into the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development ring: Merck (NYSE:MRK), which has up until now been quiet on the pandemic front. Meanwhile, its big pharma peers including GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK), AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN), and Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) have signed numerous deals and reported significant progress on various vaccine programs. Merck may have been slow to join the fight, but now, it's making up for lost time by acquiring one vaccine developer and initiating collaborations with two other organizations working on COVID-19 solutions" https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/05/26/at-last-merck-is-diving-into-coronavirus-vaccine-a.aspx

Ruck - I'd finished actually. Just making a point about publicising the locations of public figures. It's inadvisable IMO. That's done with now tks. From you, such criticism is particularly galling - given your propensity for day long quibbles sometimes. Riding the wave again?

Inan - quicksand's arrived - re. BJ, it's just as I find. Govt's response to CV-19 has been dire and I'm not the only one to think so. Guardian's got nothing to do with it. BFN

Ruck I doubt Admin read all your posts so why not email them direct ? Moving on - Inan - photoshots of front doors and the Media camping outside personal residences of Public figures - it's a common practice and IMO should be illegal because of the security risks. Surely it's unwise to publicise locations of possible 'targets' like this ? Happens all the time.

Inan, I just noticed this - "How is all this political ........... ?" - really, only you could ask that LOL.
And "apart from the London bubble i don't think any really cares". I think you might be wrong there too !
I agree with Moljen - a "totally erroneous and obnoxious post".
As for 'bubbles' - hows your's Inan ?

Some interesting stats in this DM review : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8359511/Majority-Conservative-supporters-believe-Dominic-Cummings-sacked.html Yes I know it's only the DM but . . . (just one post, ATB)

"Oxford University scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine have said it may only have a 50-per-cent chance of success. Project leader Professor Adrian Hill, of the university’s Jenner Institute, said the realisation of a working vaccine was far from guaranteed and cautioned against “over promising”, in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/coronavirus-vaccine-oxford-university-uk-astrazeneca-a9530606.html

“It’s something I have never seen in my 20 years of” studying viruses, said virologist Benjamin tenOever of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, referring to how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, hijacks cells’ genomes.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-hijacks-cells-in-unique-ways/

(Apologies if posted before . . .)

That 'Wuhan Update' is the best write up on Covidity so far - hopefully it will be seen widely ?

Nom in one of those links re. the use of masks - an additional advantage. Apart from giving protection to others if you wear one, it was suggested that wearing a mask reduces the initial viral load inwards, alerting the immune system to the virus as it were. Thanks.

. . . posted before. The article in 'Cell' looks like pucker stuff but I read the DM version myself LOL

" . . . researchers found SARS-CoV-2 behaves differently, inhibiting the genes that stop the virus from copying itself but allowing the genes that call for immune cells to behave normally. This causes the virus to multiply and an overproduction of immune cells to flood the lungs and other organs, which leads to unmitigated inflammation."

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30489-X

( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8344997/How-coronavirus-hijacks-human-cells-takes-genes-turns-immune-against-us.html )

Ray I can see that chucking 'vast' amounts at manufacturing facilities makes sense providing you know precisely what has to be made in these massive volumes, (not that A-Z need help). But with research, only so much can be done because there's a finite amount of the exact expertise . I imagine a paltry GBP 5 million would transform the progress of Scancell's research - let alone what GBP 20 million do ? Peanuts !

LLass - "Hopefully the market won't get so hyped going forward". Yes indeed - but with just one exception please.

I'm really surprised to see this trial going ahead in NHS workers - "could (it) prevent the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus from entering cells by altering their pH". Many Doctors disparage the idea but now we'll find out ? If trial results are encouraging I imagine it will be widely 'trumpeted'.

" . . . scientists think that there is a rationale for using hydroxychloroquine as a way of lowering the infection rate, particularly among those likely to be exposed such as healthcare workers. Already approved to treat malaria and certain inflammatory diseases, hydroxychloroquine has some well-documented side effects, but could prevent the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus from entering cells by altering their pH. The COPCOV trial is being run at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals and at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. The Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), based in Bangkok, Thailand, is leading the study. It is sponsored by the UK’s Oxford University and funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the MasterCard Therapeutics accelerator. More than 130 UK frontline workers have lost their lives from COVID-19 and this study will test whether hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine can protect NHS staff and health care workers. The UK-based medicines manufacturer Accord Healthcare has donated more than two million tablets to allow the trial to go ahead."

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/uk-hospitals-test-trumps-theory-that-hydroxychloroquine-wards-off-covid-19/?

"Really we all know real meaningful funding that will lead to a trial will have to come from elsewhere" - that's probably so Crumbs - but remember 'Sir' who walked around his garden and raised GBP34 million when I last noticed. That'd help. I know you are no spring chicken - could you pretend to be 101 ? Perhaps LLass can swim the Loch ?

I don't know much about this ? Any thoughts ? Maybe someone could put together some sort of application using scripts from the BB ex. Inan, Berm, Ray and so on. Maybe Notts Uni are eligible to receive if Scancell aren't ? Just a thought. For Covidity not the Students . . .

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Search%20-%20UK%20-%20Brand&utm_term=%2Bcrowdfuder&utm_content=Crowdfunder