Exciting news about a vaccine?

It is very encouraging news but even if everything is fine and the vaccine becomes available, it is feared that there may be a certain number of people who will refuse it.

I’m sure we have all read about those really harmful internet sites promoting the anti-vaccine brigade, who are vehemently against any form of vaccination and if their numbers grow we won’t have enough people protected to provide the herd immunity effect.

Of course the people involved have been working on corona virus vaccines for years without much backing. I hope that, going forward, our scientists will get the respect that they deserve, being incredibly hard working and, from what I was told by someone who worked in London years ago, very underpaid. She moved to Germany where she had a much better salary. The last I heard of her she’d married a millionaire, too.

Truly wonderful news....but think I would be a bit apprehensive...would want to see how it goes....

This is fantastic news! Really hope it all works out. Good on you B9exchange. I would definitely have the vaccine once it was regulated. They were discussing on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show today about making it mandatory. Caused a bit of a stir with some anti vaxers!

Government has signed deals for 90 million doses of possible vaccines from different companies including a German and a French firm, hedging their bets.

If you would like to help, you can help with the research by taking part in the phase 2 of trials at www.covid19vaccinetrial.co.uk/participate-trial, although rumours are they have had such a response the website is in danger of crashing!

I have tried to volunteer, as they need older people too, I feel it is my duty as a healthy OAP to help out to save others if at all possible. But so far no heard back!

I would like to know if there are any long term side effects first- I will be abstaining.

Actually the govt is going to get 90 million (not 90 thousand) doses.

Heartening news. I hope that it's easily attainable and not prohibitively costly so that the whole world benefits for the good of all.

It’s looking hopeful, they must have really worked their socks off on this! We certainly do need some positive news on Covid.

Yes I’ve posted somewhere else about this. My daughter was saying a couple of weeks ago that her friend working on the vaccine in Oxford says it is looking very, very positive. But it is only at stage one and has a number of other stages to go through yet.

So everything crossed

I think the government have ordered 90,000 of the vaccine?

They think it won't be rolled out till at least December possibly next year.

There is also a potential new treatment that can stop people needing intensive care and shortening the length of the illness.

Good news.

It's good news that positive progress is being made with a vaccine. Good news about treatments, too.

Still a long way to go, I guess, but it proves that being hopeful is worthwhile.

Yes, 'the end of the beginning', I hope.