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hog88 said:
What resources are hospitals short of?
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I also love to watch the left use the word “ skyrocketing “ maybe if they would incorporate the words “weapons of war “ into the Covid results more people would listen .
 
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0nelilreb said:
Semantics .. they turned down one deal and took another from the feds .
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Taking government money to pay for development vs spending your own money and agreeing to a deal with the gov’t for distribution where you only get paid IF your vaccine is successful are vastly different.
 
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Interesting that this isn't really spiking Pfizer's stock price. It's back to where it was earlier in the year
 
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Sea Ray said:
Interesting that this isn't really spiking Pfizer's stock price. It's back to where it was earlier in the year
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It's a fixed price contract that has been known for 3 months. I think Pfizer was going to be used either way, if they produced a viable vaccine or another company did. They would use Pfizer's capacity to manufacture doses.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
To date, the most rapid vaccine development and approval has been mumps, which took four years. Typically, there is over a decade involved.
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I have read this previously, but I think the H1N1 vaccine was developed within the year. Is that categorized differently since it was a novel strain of influenza rather than a novel virus?
 
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hog88 said:
What resources are hospitals short of?
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Purewicks, yankeurs, a dozen other things that have nothing to do with covid, but in my last 2 hospitals we have ppe out the yingyang.
Down to 2 covid out of 20 beds in my new hospital.
This system has a total of 2500 beds. There is a glass wall put up on covid pts so you cannot get a total of covid pts through the system. It's word of mouth, I've heard most of the ICUs throughout this system are the same. 2 or 3 covid per ICU.
The system hasn't been overburdened where I'm at in a long time.
 
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here is a 'vaccine' for it
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MarcoVol said:
Taking government money to pay for development vs spending your own money and agreeing to a deal with the gov’t for distribution where you only get paid IF your vaccine is successful are vastly different.
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I agree big pharma doesn’t need help in developing product they do however need guarantees that the product the produce will be distributed. Examples of that would be farmers .
 
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Roustabout said:
It’s a miracle. A mere days after election and Pfizer says it’s 100% ready.
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Why do you persist in presenting false facts? That is not what the Pres of Pfizer said at all. It is looking good and the real good news is that they gambled and are producing copius doses as though it will ultimately be approved. So they will have 500mm doses produced to coincide with approval date if it continues to succeed going forward and a billion doses by 3rd qtr 2021. Since it is a two dose system that will suffice for 500mm people

Do you intentionally mislead or do you not know how to read or listen?
 
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TheColdVolTruth said:
I have read this previously, but I think the H1N1 vaccine was developed within the year. Is that categorized differently since it was a novel strain of influenza rather than a novel virus?
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Correct. All we did with H1N1 is plug and play with the existing flu vaccine. I'm sure you are aware that different strains are used each year.
 
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LouderVol said:
Making yourselves more vulnerable in the long run is not smart.

Ruining the economy from a disease that currently kills .4% of those infected. For comparison the spanish flu killed .6% of the total US population. Covid is .06% of the total.

It's not smart to use numbers with no concept of what they mean.
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The death rate to the current approx 10,000,000 cases is 2.4% down from 5.8%
 
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PointGuard said:
The death rate to the current approx 10,000,000 cases is 2.4% down from 5.8%
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...and that 10M number is known cases. I have no idea how many had it and thought it was mild allergy, cold, or some other thing. It's higher than 10M but I have no idea what a reasonable increase to the count would be.
 
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McDad said:
...and that 10M number is known cases. I have no idea how many had it and thought it was mild allergy, cold, or some other thing. It's higher than 10M but I have no idea what a reasonable increase to the count would be.
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CDC has said total cases is close to 10x reported tested positive.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Correct. All we did with H1N1 is plug and play with the existing flu vaccine. I'm sure you are aware that different strains are used each year.
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I am aware that different strains are used annually. I was just unsure of how the vaccine development for a new strain of an old virus was categorized relative to other vaccine development. I've been sitting on that question since reading about the mumps vaccine some time back. Thanks for your info.
 
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