We are absolutely fucked. Change my mind.

[Malcolm Tucker]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...organ-12027749

[ChemicalKicks]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Tucker

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...organ-12027749

I listened to a podcast a few weeks ago about CV and the range of affects it can have, how it works and the damage it can cause. It's scary.

We're getting it easy right now, coming I to winter later and I think we'll see some real damage. Not like summer was ever known as peak flu season.

[Stagflation]

Boost your immune system NOW

[Stagflation]

Originally Posted by Stagflation

Boost your immune system NOW

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...-from-covid-19

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53469839

A coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford appears safe and triggers an immune response.

Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus.

The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way.

The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.

[ChemicalKicks]

No heard immunity either apparently.

[Malcolm Tucker]

Originally Posted by Charlie Kelly

No heard immunity either apparently.

Which means any vaccine will need to be adapted and given frequently as a booster to provide immunity. Otherwise people are going to keep catching it, in the same way they still catch a cold most years.

[Chuckles]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Tucker

Which means any vaccine will need to be adapted and given frequently as a booster to provide immunity. Otherwise people are going to keep catching it, in the same way they still catch a cold most years.

Why isn't that the case for stuff you can be vaccinated against though? I thought if you got an MMR jab, you wouldn't then get inflected by those things.

[ChemicalKicks]

Originally Posted by Chuckles

Why isn't that the case for stuff you can be vaccinated against though? I thought if you got an MMR jab, you wouldn't then get inflected by those things.

I think it's to do with the mutation rate of the specific virus.

[Malcolm Tucker]

Originally Posted by Chuckles

Why isn't that the case for stuff you can be vaccinated against though? I thought if you got an MMR jab, you wouldn't then get inflected by those things.

It's something to do with the way coronaviruses behave, it's why there's no vaccine to the common cold or some other viruses we've had decades to study such as HIV. They mutate, like all viruses, but there's something else about them which I can't remember/understand.

The optimism lies in that the common cold doesn't crash world economies so maybe the motivation into a vaccine for it has never been quite there, although saying that you'd think drug companies would absolutely love a common cold cure to sell so maybe it really is fucking difficult to immunise for.

[natalie]

Originally Posted by Chuckles

Why isn't that the case for stuff you can be vaccinated against though? I thought if you got an MMR jab, you wouldn't then get inflected by those things.

The old MMR given when people my age were kids doesn’t last forever. That’s why mumps is rife in universities because it’s the age when the vaccines have lost their effectiveness