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© 2020 AFPInvestors pan for gold in rush for coronavirus vaccine
By Ali BEKHTAOUI and Daniel HOFFMAN PARIS/NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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kurisupisu
I’m sticking with lottery tickets then...
quercetum
Bill Gates is going to be richer. He’s been investing in virus labs since the early 2000’s.
How about the vaccines we’ve received when we were young; does it make any difference?
This is just an opinion and the sources are only news articles. In general the difference is because of what we have in our bodies already.
Most countries in the developed world tend to recommend the same kinds of vaccines for babies, children and adults. However, vaccination schedules are not exactly the same from country to country. There may be differences in: the types of vaccines included in the programme; the ages at which vaccines and boosters are recommended; the number of vaccine doses that are recommended for each vaccine; the types of vaccines recommended for the whole population; the types of vaccines recommended for special groups (such as pregnant women). These are not the same from one country to another.
In the US and Canada, for example, the flu vaccine is recommended for everyone over 6 months old, while in the UK the programme is targeted to children, adults over 65, and special groups such as people with serious medical conditions. Some vaccines are not included in the UK routine programme, but are in other countries; for example, chickenpox (varicella) vaccine is recommended routinely in Australia and the USA, but not in the UK. If you look into Japan’s list you can also find differences, and in the past shots for TB were a big deal.
A university professor of medicine says that Japan is more than 10 years behind European and North American countries in its inoculation policy and his view is widely shared. In the United States, publicly funded health care programs cover vaccination against mumps, hepatitis A and childhood influenza. In Japan, individuals must pay for the same inoculations. Some progress has been made in Japan. After being bitterly criticized for failing to prevent the 2009 flu pandemic, the health ministry has expanded the scope of vaccinations whose costs are covered by public funds including haemophilus influenza type b or Hib, which is different from the virus-caused influenza, in 2013, pneumococcal pneumonia in 2014 and hepatitis B in 2016.
Vaccination situations can also differ from one region to another. In Hokkaido, vaccination against Japanese encephalitis was not legally required until 2016 on the grounds that Culex tritaeniorhynchus, a type of mosquito that transmits the encephalitis virus from pigs to humans, did not exist on the island.
That only a small number of diseases are covered by the regular vaccination programs is not the only problem. Another issue is that a relatively small percentage of people receive such vaccinations. The NIID’s 2016 survey showed that only 83 percent of 7-year-old children were inoculated twice with the MR vaccine. Of the 2-year-old children born in the year when the Immunization Law-based vaccination against chickenpox was introduced, a mere 52 percent had received two shots — far below the 95 percent rate required for ensuring mass immunity.
These variations are the result of differences in the epidemiology (patterns and frequency) of the disease in each country; differences in the way that countries make decisions about which vaccines to offer to everyone; History and tradition (“we have always done it this way”).
ulysses
That is a joke. The Russian vaccine has almost no data on trials, no peer reviews, we are just supposed to take Putin's word that it works.
The only vaccine development with reasonable data is the one being developed by Astra Zeneca . That is the reason a lot of global Pharma companies are typing up with them to manufacture the vaccine if the Phase 3 trails are successful.
Moderna is a bit of a mystery, they have never developed a vaccine successfully, have a dubious track record, yet the trump administration has given them billions. I hope they dont go the way of Jared's ventilators !!!
Raw Beer
Hmmm, could that be the reason Japan has so many fewer Covid deaths than Europe?
kyronstavic
Aussie PM Scott Morrison announced that he wants to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory, and look to be buying Astra-Zeneca's vaccine if and when it's ready, so I guess their share price got a, er, shot in the arm. Boom-tish.
I propose that all politicians be mandatory participants in vaccine testing, and see how many remain on board with mandatory vaccination, with Morrison first in line.
By all means, get a vaccination if it's safe and effective (I'd consider it, and am not anti-vaccination in principle), but I'm concerned that the process is being rushed for political and commercial reasons. And mandatory vaccination for anything is a mother step towards totalitarianism.
virusrex
From the public health point of view the situation is positive, out of so many candidates being developed the probability of a really good vaccine being developed soon increases up to the point of certainty. But from the economy's point of view this is a very obvious bubble that is going to burst the moment a few winners begin to distribute a safe and effective health intervention while the rest are left with nothing to sell.
Extremely unlikely. There are many other explanations sustained by data for this to happen, and on the contrary there are many other countries with even less vaccination than Japan that are seeing huge numbers of deaths. The failed explanation of Japanese language being "safer" to speak has more merits.
There is no need for any amount of rushing for a vaccine for next year. This is not a disease for which the usual methods have not worked and complicated solutions must be tried. Companies can just do what has been done with many other infectious diseases and test it the same as their other vaccines.
Wakarimasen
For "pan for gold" read "TAKE A PUNT".
El Rata
Gold rush? The only gold rush right now is crypto and DeFi. Any gains made by investing in labs stocks will be peanuts once the ongoing crypto bull run reaches its peak. Happy investing!
mmwkdw
Australia is planning on coercing it's populace to take a vaccine once its becomes available.... though I wonder, who will be held Liable if the long term side effects are akin to thalidomide ?