Sounds like somebody should produce some minks masks xD
Not my kind of joke.
Anyway, we were told for years that industrial farming of cows, pigs, chickens will evwntually breed a supervirus. Never thought about minks. Actually, last month Poland banned farming animals for fur without any reparations. Turns out maybe it was not only good for the animalsâŠ
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A long list of caveats, to name a few:
- Sample size still not huge (~44k volunteers, ~100 covid19 cases, less than 10% infected were vaccinated, the rest was injected with placebo).
- Data not released yet, this is a press release by Pfizer
- Immunity duration still unclear
- No safety concern atm, but longer-term effect still to formally exclude
- Immunity after 2nd shot, this increases already existent production problems
⊠and still, this is great fucking news.
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It also currently needs to be distributed cold/refrigerated. But seems like great news for the possibility of even better vaccines soon.
How âthe marketâ reacted:
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Yes, unfortunately this is not a âcurrentâ problem that will be resolved, the Pfizer vaccine is an RNA vaccine, the storage/transportation problem will always be an issue. But still great news, since as you say this is only one of the promising candidates. The Astrazeneca one is based on adenovirus delivery and should solve most of the aforementioned, but of course it is not a given at all that it will work the same way or at all.
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Very interesting! 
How should I interpret the S&P500 being up 2.75% but the Pfizer stock âonlyâ being up 8.5%?
If Pfizer was able to reap a significant percentage of the value the vaccine generates (percentage of the S&P bump), shouldnât this news create a much larger bump in the stock prize?
Why would/should it? The economic benefit is massive, but thereâs no way they can capture it (would be cheaper for governments to nationalize them 
)
Itâs all about expected influence on future profits, I suppose. Pfizer is a huge company & vaccine not a huge profit-bringer. Biontech is up 20% though (more influence, smaller co.)
Less than 10% vaccinated were infected, if I understand the â>90% protection rateâ.
Nope, that would be a huge number of people because partecipants in the trial have to come in contact with the disease naturally (are not injected with the virus after vaccinations, although there have been suggestions to do that with all the ethical issues).
So the efficacy here is done by taking all the participants who got infected and comparing how many of those had the vaccine vs how many got the placebo. The ratio here is 90-10 or so, and thatâs where the 90% comes from. Since its only 94 infected, easy to understand that this number is subject to fluctuations in the future, but still a great starting point.
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From what I read theyâre planning a human challenge study: UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial | AP News (theyâre starting by infecting people without any vaccine or anything to find the lowest amount of virus people need to be infected, this will then be used for vaccine research).
So⊠my mom has covid. I was afraid of it, because she has a heart condition. She was not allowed to work from home, even though she could. She has 38 fever and cough, but so far not so bad, she saysâŠ
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Good luck Bo and mom!
Hope she recovers without serious consequences.
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I donât have the age of your mother but I can share for the forum my experience with the covid-19 as Iâve got it 2 weeks ago.
In my case, I woke up a morning with a terrible headache, cough, throatache and muscular pain (especially on my back and arms). By muscular pain, it was like hypersensitivity. Even the contact between my skin and my t-shirt was painful. I made the test the day after and had the positiv result 36h after. These symptoms disapear after 4 days and a new one occur : no taste and no smell.
Except for this symptoms, I didnât have fever or breath issue, and after 4 days I was cured, at least I didnât have any other symptoms. Until today, I didnât recover my taste and smell. My Doctor says that it can take weeks before it recovers. I will see.
I hope your mother will recover quickly and hope that she will not have serious consequence.
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Sending best thoughts. Hope all goes well and sheâll soon be standing before you telling sheâs beaten the thing.
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3 of my colleagues had it. The older woman (around 60?) is doing fine now. Sheâs a smoker btw.
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Most of my family got it, including my two parents (both more than 60). Nobody has any grave symptoms, fortunately. The worse for my parents were the muscular pains. For me, it felt like a big flu. After 4-5 days I was mostly cured but still tired. The only thing that lasted longer for me was the loss of smell.
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My friendâs dad was 60 and he died for covid yesterday. He did have asthma, though.
Anyone else gained several monthly savings in the last 1.5 weeks alone? What a great month.
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Random starting point.
1M rolling it (e.g. VT) barely moved.
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