Deputy Chief Medical Officer hopeful of Covid-19 vaccine by Christmas Nottinghamshire Live11/14/2020 Join the Secret Elves to discover the best shopping deals and things to do this Christmas
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England’s deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam is “hopeful” the UK can see “some sort of coronavirus vaccine by Christmas”. It comes following today’s announcement a Covid-19 vaccine has been developed by Pfizer (November 9). The pharmaceutical giant and its partner BioNTech said interim results showed their jab could prevent people developing coronavirus – with 90 per cent effiencency. Speaking during a briefing on Monday’s Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough, University of Nottingham’s Professor Van-Tam said: “Stand fast. Don’t get too overexcited about where we are. “We have seen the swallow but this is very much not the summer. It would be a colossal mistake to relax at this point.” The deputy CMO added age will be the biggest priority for any vaccine being given out. “I am hopeful we could see some sort of vaccine by Christmas,” he said. “More importantly it is good news for other vaccines to come.” Professor Van-Tam says we have to “battle through to the end” of the current second wave in the country. Making a football reference he said that “we haven’t won the cup yet”, but what it “does tell you is that the keeper can be beaten”. He added: “We don’t know what this means yet for when we can get life back to normal. “We are in the middle of the second wave and I don’t see the vaccine making any difference in the current wave. “We have to battle through the current wave to the end. “Please don’t relax much depends on how much you follow the rules. “But vaccines supplies we hope will come always subject to authorisation and we might be able to look to Spring as a much better horizon than we have now.” Speaking from 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Government has not yet seen the full safety data and any findings will also need to be peer reviewed. Describing the development as a “significant hurdle”, the Prime Minister said there will still be many similar hurdles to overcome in the fight against the pandemic. Mr Johnson said the UK had ordered 30m doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which puts the country “at the front of the queue” when it comes to immunisation. Although he made clear, a number of checks had to made in what are “very, very early days” in the battle to rid the world of coronavirus. from https://taxi.nearme.host/deputy-chief-medical-officer-hopeful-of-covid-19-vaccine-by-christmas-nottinghamshire-live/
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