The latest Investing Matters Podcast with Jean Roche, Co-Manager of Schroder UK Mid Cap Investment Trust has just been released. Listen here.
Happy to confirm that the 'main men' are still doing good work on Twitter. I check in to read their posts once a day - it's a good change from some of the posters on LSE..
Dacorum - before you rush to have the vaccine, I would suggest maybe you do some research. The full details of any of the ones announced so far is unknown. Still, happy you're not invested here.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-data-isnt-up-to-snuff/
Got to agree with the pessimism. This Govt is only interested in vaccines and that is what their focus has been on all along. Unfortunately only an independent enquiry after Covid will determine how many people died that could have been saved if the Govt had given us the backing they gave vaccines...
win - why don't you use that thing inside your skull a little. So by your reasoning all the vaccines are here and as a result everyone is going to be vaccinated by Easter? Are you just talking about the UK, Europe, USA, Northern Hemisphere or where? Outside wherever you have drawn the lines for immediate vaccination, everyone else is being left to die? What happens to those countries who are lower down your selfish priority list. I see SNG being used with or without vaccines until the end of 2021 at least...remember Prof Van Tam said it's not going to have much impact on the second wave.
Thank goodness for scientists with some common sense and appreciation the public want a well developed vaccine, not a load of Hollywood headlines..
If interim data from the Phase 3 is similar to what has already been seen I think Dr Fauci from a certain hard hit country will fly over and kick our doors in to get a supply...
Great work all - very much appreciate the updates posted. I've been shaking my head at the times I felt this was the weakest of my shares with a covid angle. Having dumped my GDR which was the weakest, I can now see this looks to actually have been my strongest share all along!!
Brilliant work all - thanks for posting the key points!
Thanks for the dose of realism folks - was counting the profit before I've made any...
Carry on and ignore me until it gets to £2+ :-)
1.27 on HL....I'm shaking :-)
Not me. Got mine today :-)
Well winey, it appears your view might be in the minority and not just on this BB...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/coronavirus-vaccine-less-than-half-of-brits-would-definitely-get-vaccinated-despite-moderna-and-pfizer-joy/ar-BB1b5Az3?ocid=msedgntp
Agree with a lot of the posts here and I am one that won't be first in the queue for a rushed vaccine. They should at least wait until the summer to get more data and build up stocks then start vaccinating the most vulnerable ready for next winter. After all the young and healthy are less likely to die, and progress is being made into finding out why some people are affected more than others and there is a treatment made by some company that looks like it could help to reduce this...SNG!!
I agree, but this story takes the biscuit I think:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/olympics-chief-very-confident-covid-vaccine-will-allow-fans-to-attend-postponed-tokyo-games/ar-BB1b3Eqm?ocid=msedgntp
I mean, even the Olympic Committee are now pinning their hopes on these 'no detail' vaccines!
Excellent post! Something I have been thinking about over the last week..
Everyone needs to keep some perspective here. Read this article!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/half-the-population-needs-to-be-vaccinated-to-slow-the-spread-of-covid-expert-says/ar-BB1b3CuG?ocid=msedgntp
I wish the mainstream press would show the same balanced perspective:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/half-the-population-needs-to-be-vaccinated-to-slow-the-spread-of-covid-expert-says/ar-BB1b3CuG?ocid=msedgntp
Here at last is an article on the reasons many real people (me included) not anti-vaxxers, won't rush to have the vaccines:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/it-s-the-vaccine-hesitant-not-anti-vaxxers-who-are-troubling-public-health-experts/ar-BB1b3wfq?ocid=msedgntp
What a shamelessly ramping thread!! World will be back to normal by Spring Easter? What a laugh! How much of the world population will have been vaccinates by then? Are you assuming that all the vaccines will be approved?
Thanks goodness I'm doing my own research on this share because ShareExpert seems to have an insight on future world events that no-one else has!
Tim45 - the answer is that the Govt has put all its eggs in the vaccine basket. Despite the Andrew Marr interview which told us that there would be no real impact until this time next year, the Govt will continue to keep vaccines in the headlines at the cost of other treatments.
The only way we will get headlines if the Phase 3 tests reinforce the positive outcomes already seen. This might force the Govt to buy to help save lives until the impact of vaccination is felt in the population..