Trump news conference, 4.30pm. I think he's found a vaccine...

[Helenj1977]

Did you hear that on BBC? How amazing would that be.

[DGRossetti]

I'm missing it

You're not. You're really not.

[Helenj1977]

I'm missing it 😭

Any vaccine yet?? 😂

[TheLinerunner]

"We're looking at things to make people better"

Trump is on live again now, gibbering about people dying, getting better, dying again. Beautiful deaths. The best. Medicine. America. Virus. Horrible virus.

[DGRossetti]

I think this thread is showing that the old adage about humour not surviving the internet is pretty spot on ...

[ChardonnaysPetDragon]

I honestly don’t know what to say, and that dose happen often.

[SoupDragon]

Only when people make ridiculous statements.

🤦🏻‍♀️

[MrsJoshNavidi]

Only when people make ridiculous statements.

[ChardonnaysPetDragon]

We've had some pretty big vaccines in the past. I give you polio for starters. How would you have liked to have spent the rest of your life in a metal lung?

Also, do you always take everything so literally?

[Butterymuffin]

Absolutely @Bluntness100 - hopefully both treatments and a vaccine will be available sooner than we could have hoped. Given that surely every suitable scientific research team around the world will be prioritising this. Just hope Trump can be stopped from sticking his oar in when it actually emerges.

[Gorse]

Southampton university is trialing now, today, a new drug specifically for asthma and COPD patients. They're using it on people tested positive for Corona virus.

[ChardonnaysPetDragon]

We've had some pretty big vaccines in the past. I give you polio for starters. How would you have liked to have spent the rest of your life in a metal lung?

Could agree more with you. Polio, Mumps, Rubella, German teases. All great.

But not Trump level great. Oh no.

[Bluntness100]

There are apparantly sixty seven treatments and vaccines now moving into human trial stage globally.

It’s likely we will have a treatment soon, as it seems authorities will need to decide whether to give patients who are going to die it or not, or just let them die. So seems sensible they give them the treatment drugs.

As always though prevention is better than cure so a vaccine is the ultimate aim.

[MrsJoshNavidi]

It’ll be the greatest vaccine ever

We've had some pretty big vaccines in the past. I give you polio for starters. How would you have liked to have spent the rest of your life in a metal lung?

[ChardonnaysPetDragon]

Everybody's working on a vaccine.

It'll be like the busses when they finally make it.

[Sugarpea123]

I hope he's not going to be all braggadocious about it 🤔

[MrsSnitchnose]

The Russians are working on prototypes too www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/17/russia-starts-testing-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-a69652

[TheLinerunner]

I gather his was not a happy demise

[DGRossetti]

Trump's made Gavin Williamson look like Cicero

was it Cicero that got his tongue nailed to a board ? ...

[TheQueef]

This thread is.....Tremendous.

Good show.

[TheLinerunner]

Trump's made Gavin Williamson look like Cicero

[boatyardblues]

Where can I watch this please?

Your local laundromat - fast spin ?

😂🤣😂 You’re on fire today, DGR.

Thank you everyone AGAIN for a much needed belly laugh.

[DGRossetti]

Oh god - he's just been asked if most people would condemn the use of the term "Kung Flu" when referring to the virus

Sorry, I had to be first ...

[SoupDragon]

🤦🏻‍♀️

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Oh god - he's just been asked if most people would condemn the use of the term "Kung Flu" when referring to the virus

"No, they'd agree with it. It comes from China"

[hoovermyrug]

"We're looking at numbers big numbers. We've never seen anything like it, we've got great people here looking at the numbers. It's a big thing"

I think that's the size of it?