Zero Hedge: Pfizer CEO Warns New Vaccine To Combat Heavily-Mutated Coronavirus Could Take 100 Days
Update (1008ET): Reuters reports BioNTech, Pfizer is expecting laboratory results of the recently discovered Nu variant in two weeks.
"We understand the concern of experts and have immediately initiated investigations on variant B.1.1.529," BioNTech said.
"We expect more data from the laboratory tests in two weeks at the latest. These data will provide more information about whether B.1.1.529 could be an escape variant that may require an adjustment of our vaccine if the variant spreads globally," it added.
Reuters notes, "escape variants are virus versions that elude the targeted immune response brought about by vaccination."
Citi analyst Andrew Baum was the first to note that it could take Pfizer, BioNTech upwards of 100 days to develop a new vaccine to combat Nu.
Pfizer and BioNTech confirmed the redesigned timeline of the new vaccine.
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WNU Editor: A hundred days is an eternity in a pandemic. Add in production time, distribution, and setting up appointments. This 100 days could easily stretch 150 more days.
On a more depressing note. In a worse case scenario .... expect lock-downs to return.
And how many variant are before us?
ReplyDeleteCorona can live in deer, dogs and probably other animals. So if we vaccinated people against all the alphabet soup of variants, wipe it out in the human population, it would still exist in a animal reservoir both domestic and wild. Point is, we will not get rid of corona. It will keep coming back.
ReplyDeleteIn my metropolitan statistical area (defined by the Census bureau), which also corresponds well to media markets, there are about a million people. You can count the non-elderly people, who died in 2020 of COVID, on one hand. They usually had comorbidities.
I think most elderly should get vaccinated. After that those, who are obese or have diabetes, need to beat those conditions. It is not uncommon for people, who lose a lot of weight, to get rid of their diabetes. There is no need to ruin the fucking economy except to empower the politicians and the rich.