So the plague has inflicted its most damage on five of the great western democracies:
US
UK
Italy
France
Spain
Brazil has now passed Spain to become the country with the 5th highest reported deaths.
Russia has zoomed to 3rd most cases, but their number of reported deaths is still low.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
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Coronavirus 'disappearing' so fast Oxford vaccine has 'only 50% chance of working'
Professor Adrian Hill describes the efforts to create a vaccine as a "race against the virus disappearing, and against time".There is only a 50% chance of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine working because cases in the UK are declining so fast, one of the scientists behind it has warned.
The University of Oxford's Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group began developing a COVID-19 vaccine in January using a virus taken from chimpanzees.
But with the number of UK coronavirus cases dropping every day, there may not be enough people to test it on, according to the institute's director Professor Adrian Hill.
He told The Sunday Telegraph: "It's a race against the virus disappearing, and against time. We said earlier in the year that there was an 80% chance of developing an effective vaccine by September.
"But at the moment, there's a 50% chance that we get no result at all. We're in the bizarre position of wanting COVID to stay, at least for a little while."
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
LOL That's what happens when you play nice.
When I first started posting many years ago, and no one would respond to me, I had two different posters independently say to me 'post something stupid, that'll get you a response.' I'm not sure what that says about us as posters. LOL
This is all for the AZ phase 2. I expect 8-10 more countries to be added in the coming weeks. Of course USA and UK are 2 countries that will also be running this trial with my company but I am only involved in the global countries.
We meet with them next week to start planning the phase 3 trial that will be starting later summer/early fall.
other names i have posted under: none
Are you concerned about not having sufficient patients to be able to interpret the studies? I would think that there are plenty here, in hot spots, as well as in Brazil and in the continent of Africa...I am concerned that Africans are going to get decimated by this because of the lack of good hospitals and the number of poor people, sometimes living in very congested areas. I was in Kenya some years back volunteering to take care of the kids there and I saw first hand what their hospitals are like. Its not pretty.