All I hope is to be back to normal by Summer 2021, would be amazing if we can get there.
thats hilarious, everyone on twitter is like " thanks trump for the vaccine!"
but they werent even part of the admin lul, you know if this was a dem they would be talking about how bad government is and how the private sector is superior, but since they are full trumpers nationalist socialism has to be their path
It's actually really sad how so many newspapers just praise Pfizer when the vaccine was not even developed by them
This is huge and if it works out, a big thanks to BioNTech for normalizing the world again!
I hope you get more recognition in the coming weeks.
I just hope everyone is not jumping the gun here.
Based on everything I read there is not a lot of detail around the trials released yet.
Can't wait for the conspiracies to start about this announcement a week after the elections.
90% effective, not when half the country won't take it by the time the conspiracies get a hold of it
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
KEKW
Whoever tests for coronavirus automatically enters a daily lottery which may award 3k USD, unclear how many such prizes per day will be there.
Starting next week.
It won't. German medical personnel warns that Corona will not be over quickly.
We will have to deal with this virus the next Christmas and the one after that.
Whether that will be a "deal with" similar to the flu or whether shit will still hit the fan, is anyone's guess at this point.
Speaking as someone in the US, most peoples day to day hasn't changed much except during that "essential" only period months ago, aside from wearing a mask (my county requires one and every store has signs saying fuck off or wear a mask) like everything is open, traffic is unreal, people still crowd in downtown areas for events and whatnot and everything seems pretty normal, like if I walk outside right now it looks like it did 2 years ago, the sky isn't filled with smoke, roads aren't loaded with burned out cars with infected bodies laying all over, I was in the ER in the middle of June and asked a nurse about Corona and she said "yeah, we've seen a few cases come through here" there was only like 3 people in the waiting area.
Still think the mask thing should be nationwide which I'm assuming it will be once the evil Biden gets into office, a bunch of twats will complain, this time though we will have actual people who believe in science on the (Bidens) rona taskforce rather than religious dipshits like Pence...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...id-19-n1247126
State of emergency and mask mandate in Utah now.
If only "Listening to doctors" wasn't a political issue in this country, we'd have a fighting chance against a pandemic.
Yes, assuming it holds up and there are no bad side effect it may be that way for the developed world; but it may still take a year to get everyone vaccinated. Hopefully Astra-Zeneca's vaccine (or similar ones) will also work, so that India, S. America and Africa can get a vaccine - without having to rely on the excessive cooling needed for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/...9-vaccine.html
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense (DoD) today announced an agreement with U.S.-based Pfizer Inc. for large-scale production and nationwide delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States following the vaccine’s successful manufacture and approval. The agreement also allows the U.S. government to acquire an additional 500 million doses."
So no money to create the vaccine but money to distribute ?
Yes, money to produce and deliver - not create.
A more interesting question is why they made the claim.
The most logical explanation is they don't want to be associated with a loser.
Why they didn't try to push for an earlier review of the results is less clear (they were supposed to check it after 32 cases - and pushed it to 64 and finally it ended up as more than 90); but since they don't know what the outcome it's possible they realized that delivering the news (good or bad) before the US election would have tainted the results (especially as it would have been less reliable).
it was a contract to purchase the vaccine when it was available, the only ground im going to give you is they knew once it was developed it would be profitable, but all Research and development( the important shit) was done by pfizer, and my broad point was it use to be a conservative thing to praise the free market for creating a vaccine, instead they are literally triggered that pfizer did this announcement after the election instead of before so the trump admin could claim it was THEIR vaccine, the Rs are socialist with nationalism basically now
20 bucks a pop to just make each one. Ya they are making back that "creation" money easy and prob 20-25% margin on top of it.
Now a flu shot sells for 10-16 dollars from the manufacture. about 20% of that is markup.
The real profit on the flu shot is the administration. Places like CVS and doctor office make some serious change on just giving them from insurance companies. Their cost are next to nothing because of the time to administer and the fact 99% of the people doing the administration were already being paid to be there.
Will be interesting too see if the govt holds true to their promise to pay for it all. They will have to go to the public sector to administer
This is what Medicare pays for flu shots, 10-60 dollars for cost of shot and administrative fee
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicar...accinesPricing
They spend somewhere in the vicinity of 15 billion a year just on flu shots for a tiny fraction of the 60 million.
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hmm, how much does a test cost around you? sounds like a better chance then playing scratch offs
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
I found its a more widely used new disinformation technique that targets the usual crowd through facebook and similar stuff (whatsapp in europe).
Its always "I know a nurse" , or "a nurse told me this" proceeding to spew total garbage like 90% of tests are fake, covid is fake, all random deaths are counted as covid for xyz conspiracy.
Its all real and true. I know a real nurse who is an expert epidemiologist that knows all the hidden inside stuff.
Who are gonna be the guinea pigs for it? Essential workers? No, the real ones, not Carl the grocery store cashier or Valerie the barista. Doctors, nurses, people like that.
Be a total clusterfuck if great swaths of the medical field were fucked by this vaccine. Anyone want to place a bet on liability waivers?