@peonypower
@TantieTowie,
On Panorama 'can science beat the virus', one of the Virologist starts by explaining why they haven't got a vaccine for HIV and what the difference is with this virus.
Watch the science stuff and a lot of the points on this thread is answered, including why they never carried on with a vaccine for Sars etc. The science is making progress everyday. We now understand why men are more likely to have severe symptoms and children under 10 don't, nor do they transmit it, at least not in a dangerous dose. Which is why primary schools have gone back and countries are allowing grandchildren to visit their shielding GPs again.
The ingredients used are all well tested, one is used in the fight against Elboa. It's the licensing side and the waiting to set up a manufacturing base that normally takes the time to release a new drug. That's what is different, as well as the global response. It's in governments financial interests to have this out in the population, especially in the third world were we rely on adults doing labour intensive work. In those countries tjey need adults to raise the children and that is usually helped by grandparents. In some countries it would be disastrous for the age of death to drop to 50+.
I will be getting the vaccine. Hopefully their will then be enough herd immunity to protect those who can't get the vaccine or for those that the initial vaccines won't work well for, the over 65's being one. But that's the case with the flu vaccine.
Alongside the Oxford vaccine team is the infectious diseases treatment team. One professor is confident that there will be effective treatments by the end of next month. It's a triple approach of anti-viral, anti-inflammatories and immune response support.
Science can beat this, but i hope we don't forget the cause and we prevent the next virus coming along by cleaning up the eating of wildlife etc.