Would have been nice had the Reagan administration seen the AIDS epidemic as an emergency. It was a sure and painful death for anyone who came into contact with HIV back then. Still no vaccine in sight .
You seem to be a nut job trouble maker to me spouting nonsense on topics you know nothing about. In other words you are troublesome ignoramus.
First there are HIV vaccines finally in sight. The problem with retroviruses is that their modus operandi is to evade the immune system and actually destroy it. That makes it an exceptionally difficult target for a vaccine. However after lots of hard work over many years some promising candidates are under evaluation by the NIH.
Sars 2 Covid-19 fortunately is a much easier and more promising target. It has an S-Spike antigen that if attacked by the immune system seems to render it harmless. Although it is not yet known is if it completely stops asymptomatic spread.
However the news from Pfizer today is very good news indeed. Pfizer by the way, have taken no public money.
Also it means that since the other vaccines that target the S-spike antigen currently under development will also be effective most likely
I was on AMA zoom conference with Dr Fauci on Saturday. There are a number of NIH studies of long term follow up of Covid-19 survivors. The most disturbing is data showing 60% of survivors show evidence of myocarditis months out after recovery. This is similar to German data. So the worry is that although the elderly have higher mortality, the young may have a high late mortality. The sooner this pandemic is brought to an end the better.
Scientists around the world are giving this all the have got. Medical personal around the world are becoming exhausted. More staff seem to be getting seriously ill in this second wave than the first for reasons that are not clear. So I for one am not going to tolerate your rude, out of line and ignorant comments.
Now we have another worry. Denmark has an outbreak of a new strain of Covid-19 that has spread to at least 12 humans. Unfortunately this strain does show significant antigenic drift in the S-spike antigen. So this might require the development of another vaccine is this gets out of the bag. Denmark is getting walled off and they are gassing all their mink farms. They are searching to see if this strain has got into the wild.
The UK is not allowing any trucks or goods from Denmark and any UK citizen returning from Denmark has to be escorted into extreme isolation by teams wearing full hazmat gear. Unlike China, Denmark notifies the WHO and the world medical community immediately of this serious development.
Believe it or not, the nut job deniers are calling this draconian, as they can't get their ham and bacon! You just can't make this stuff up.
