Biden touts vaccine developments, but warns end of pandemic battle 'still months away'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday heralded a positive new development in the race for a coronavirus vaccine, but said it will still be several months before most of the country is inoculated and stressed that Americans’ fight against the pandemic is far from over.

Biden said in a statement that he was informed by his public health advisers on Sunday evening about drugmaker Pfizer’s analysis that its coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective. The results represent the first Phase III data from any of the four vaccine candidates now in the final stage of testing in the United States.

“I congratulate the brilliant women and men who helped produce this breakthrough and to give us such cause for hope,” Biden said. “At the same time, it is also important to understand that the end of the battle against COVID-19 is still months away.”

Biden went on to warn that even if a vaccine is approved by late November, allowing some Americans to be vaccinated as soon as later this year, “it will be many more months before there is widespread vaccination in this country.”

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In the mean time this is what the dim son has to say about the vaccine.

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[Hugin]

1. I thought we'd agreed to put Uday on time-out.

While he gets his shit together.

[Pantagruel]

2. "While he gets his shit together."

No one has that much time.....

[Hugin]

3. Oh, well...

c'est la vie.

[Gothmog]

4. Joe Biden-Wearing a mask is not a political statement

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[Hortensis]

5. Great news, tentative but very encouraging.

We're so ready for a vaccine. I haven't hugged a grandchild in most of a year. Two have spurted taller than us since we saw them last.

Four vaccines are in late-stage trials in the U.S. and 7 more internationally. Still others coming.

Notably, we don't know how long the benefit claimed from this one would last. But if the virus is vulnerable to a vaccine at all, it should be to others, perhaps to different degrees or in other ways; and some vaccines will probably work better for some people than others.

This technology would allow much faster production of vaccine than in the past, but I think three or four different technologies for development are being pursued, including the traditional one.

BioNTech used a technology that had never been approved for use in people. It takes genetic material called messenger RNA and injects it into muscle cells, which treat it like instructions for building a protein — a protein found on the surface of the coronavirus. The proteins then stimulate the immune system and are believed to result in long-lasting protection against the virus. Other companies, including Moderna, are also using messenger RNA technology.