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Originally posted by Moonlight Shadow View PostI should have bought some Pfizer stock....
Interestingly, Ocado has plunged 6.5% and Just Eat Takeaway down 3.6% in the last 20 mins or so as investors hoping to cash in on the "new normal" get cold feet.
Zoom also down 5% in pre-market trading.
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Originally posted by pebblethefish View PostOcado's only back to what it was 10 days ago.
The UK FTSE 100 was up over 5% - adding more than ?80bn to the value of its shares in its best day since March - while the French CAC was up over 6% and Germany's DAX up over 5%.
In London, airline stocks rose strongly as investors bet on the vaccine potentially opening up international travel.
The owner of British Airways, IAG, was up over 40%.
Rolls Royce, which makes aeroplane engines, was up 36%.
EasyJet was up 29%, Intercontinental Hotels was up 15%, Cineworld was up 55% and the cruise company Carnival was up 37%.
As HP suggests, this all seems a bit prematurely optimistic.
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- Mar 2008
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- at the edge of the sea
- Plymouth Argyle, Plymouth Gladiators, Seattle Mariners
- cream crackers spread with nutella
Good news, but the logistics might be interesting. The biggest issue would seem to be enough available storage at -80C and the ability to transport 30 million vials at that temperature. I'm pretty certain a standard fridge unit can't get anywhere near that low.
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It jumps out at me that the vaccine trials are not complete, results has yet to be published in a medical journey, and there have been no peer reviews. So how effective the vaccine will be appears, to me, to be not yet proven.
And yet multiple countries are falling over themselves to order this (no doubt to ensure poorer countries can't obtain it). I think it's jumping the gun.
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Originally posted by lambers View PostIt jumps out at me that the vaccine trials are not complete, results has yet to be published in a medical journey, and there have been no peer reviews. So how effective the vaccine will be appears, to me, to be not yet proven.
And yet multiple countries are falling over themselves to order this (no doubt to ensure poorer countries can't obtain it). I think it's jumping the gun.
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If anyone's unquestionably trusting a peer-reviewed journal to be a measure of accuracy I have some beachfront real estate in New Mexico to sell them...
But, in seriousness I think I'd trust this more than a published article because the FDA actually has teeth, and take mis-representing trials results seriously. Still doesn't mean that it's actually correct though, and doesn't address the questions of how long protection lasts and how many mutations the virus would require for protection to be ineffective.
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I'd trust this as far as it goes - that it's shown to be 90% effective compared to placebo in a fairly large population trial over a month or so with no observed side effects yet.
It doesn't have FDA clearance, and nobody's had a chance the peer review the results, and even if it gets cleared it's going to take a long time to distribute. But right now it looks like some pretty fucking great news.
Even better is that - as I understand it - the mechanism at work here is similar to one being used in other trial vaccines, so if this works there's a good chance that they will work too. And with multiple vaccines that makes production and distribution slightly less daunting.
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Originally posted by S. aureus View PostBut, in seriousness I think I'd trust this more than a published article because the FDA actually has teeth, and take mis-representing trials results seriously.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostWhat does 90% effective mean, for the layman? Don't only around 10% of people test positive for Covid to begin with?
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