The best vaccine news we could hope for

Sounds really hopeful, fingers crossed!

I feel like a good weep fingers crossed

Light at the end of the tunnel

What a lovely week this is turning out to be!

With luck it will pass all the safety tests and off we go.

Be able to plan again, all the lovely stuff we have not been able to do.

Hopefully, just the start with others coming into being. As there is, at present, no knowledge as to how long the immunity lasts, it could well become, like the 'flu' jab, something that need doing annually.
For a long time I was a little pessimistic about getting a vaccine before about 2025, but am now more optimistic about this.
With vaccines, hopefully our lives can slowly start to return to the 'old normal'.
Okay.......I am now waiting for all those coming on to say they would not risk taking this, etc. etc. etc.

The week has a very positive feel for me - a new US President and vaccines for Covid just around the corner.
It’s a tonic that was much needed.
It would be no hardship to get a Covid jab once a year as we do with the flu jab.
If it brings back a more normal way of life most people will be persuaded to go for it I think.

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“That sound you can hear is the government preparing to give £300bn to roll out the vaccine to a company that makes hats run by someone who doesn't even know what a vaccine is but is married to a Tory MP.“

I'm a little worried about the plan to give vaccine first to those deemed most vulnerable.
I do very much hope that it is proved to be effective, tho.

WWM2 I missed that bit in the BBC report. :-)

Far north why are you worried about that ? Are you concerned about possible side effects ?

Great news bring it on!!

Great news. I knew they would make one as there are some very clever people out there. I’ve also been reminding myself when I’ve been down due to the situation that nothing lasts forever.

I think the EU said that they would be prepared to make the vaccine available to the UK, which is good news.

Franbern I am interested- I just would not be first in the queue.

It's given us hope. We need hope.

Well I’d jump at it !

BBC lunchtime news said that we had already bought £400 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine ( 2 doses are needed per person) and this is only one of the companies working on the vaccine. There are a number of others including our own Oxford based lab. I think its great news hopefully they are starting with front line health workers before the New Year and then the vulnerable which includes DH and DD1 so I am happy bunny today.

Lucca

Well I’d jump at it !

Me too!

I thought it was 40 million doses, 10 million by end of year, then a further 30 million later?

We heard about it on the 1 o'clock news, Radio 4. It sounds really hopeful and cheered us both up. We would both gladly try it, if it's offered.

It's brilliant news. Even better than hearing that the Orange One has been defeated (even if he says he hasn't). It's absolutely fabulous. Boris is on TV at 5pm with Jonathan Van Tamm and a brigadier. The brigadier is presumably going to tell us how the army will organise the vaccinations. Now all we need to hear is that we have a good agreement with the EU and this will really be a week to remember.

Boris on TV now. The chap doing the signing for the deaf looks like a Mr Bean clone.

Fantastic metaphor of train from JVT.

Prof Van Tam is on point again ?
His analogy of the first sightings of a virus vaccine being likened to a train coming into the station (regarding safety) was simple enough for everyone to understand.