COVID Vaccine !
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
Suppose I wanted to buy a batch of a million doses. Does anybody have a rough estimate of what Pfizer might sell the stuff for on a per dose basis?
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
That article states that Pfizer got $2 billion from Project Warp Speed. A recent spokesman for the company said that they hadn't got a bean from them.
RoadRider400
Some bloke that likes cycling alone
Can anybody suggest why this vaccine might need two doses per person within a short period of time? I know some vaccines have follow up jabs later on but I thought this was after at least a year.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
Hepatitis jabs used to be a few weeks apart. Lord knows why. I remember it well because they jabbed you in your buttocks and the syringe was huge. Hurt like hell after an hour or so.
lazybloke
Considering a new username
Not a clue, but i opted to have mmr recently - in my late 40s - and that was a month between two jabs.
lane
Veteran
Rabies is two or 3 in a short period
Sometimes, if you take a large group of people, with one vaccination you might expect 70 percent to be protected. But if you give a second dose, you may get up to 90 percent. Rather than testing the population to find the 20 percent not protected by the first dose, what is probably a more straightforward strategy is just giving two doses to insure you have that high level of protection.
Some immune systems need a second dose to prime them whilst some are fine with just the first dose. But we don’t know who falls into which bracket for each vaccine. So just give them two doses to be sure.
Nope he’s in the coronaverse
tom73
Guru
From what little information we've been given this one is the same symptomatic only. Pfizer look to have been very selective on the information given. Still a lot of unknowns. Of the ones who become covid positive no information on age , risk factor ect. It's unusually to go public with details this early. The trial is still on going until it's formally published, peer reviewed and independently safety tested a lot can still go wrong.
winjim
Smash the cistern
It's early days and with a few of the vaccine studies reportedly about to release data I think Pfizer just wanted to get a jump on their rivals. The early bird catches the worm, or in this case 7% on their share price. Interestingly, the Pfizer news immediately knocked $14bn off the value of Zoom.
tom73
Guru
That's the top and bottom of it. Money to be had and lot's of it you can bet the others with an eye on this will be organized crime. They already make plenty from counterfeit drugs can't see this being any different.
