Stromboli1

1 minute ago, Matt! said:

 

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Coronavirus could “burn out naturally before any vaccine is developed”, according to a former World Health Organisation chief.

“We are seeing a roughly similar pattern everywhere – I suspect we have more immunity than estimated,” Professor Karol Sikora, who previously directed the WHO’s cancer programme, said on Saturday.

“We need to keep slowing the virus, but it could be petering out by itself. It is my opinion that this is a feasible scenario.”

His hopeful comments come days after a new study in the International Journal of Clinical Practice, using local authority “R” transmission rate data, estimated some 19 million people are “likely” to have already contracted the virus in the UK.

Epidemiologists’ efforts to surmise and monitor the true spread of the virus have been hindered by the government’s decision to abandon widespread testing and contact-tracing in mid-March.

While hopes for a return to what ministers have dubbed a “new normal” are pinned to the development of extensive testing and contact-tracing programmes, many have suggested that a full return to pre-outbreak freedoms will only be truly possible with the advent of a vaccine.

Boris Johnson last weekend stressed that the “only feasible long-term solution lies with a vaccine or drug-based treatment”, which he said may be more than a year away, admitting: “In a worst-case scenario, we may never find a vaccine.”

Recent polling by Opinium suggests the public are similarly pinning their hopes on a vaccine. Researchers found more than a quarter of UK respondents said they would not feel comfortable taking public transport until a vaccine is found.

Matt Hancock, the health secretary, has previously said that the government is “throwing everything” at finding a vaccine, and two leading development projects at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London have received at least £42.5m to support their vaccine trials.

Oxford’s Professor Sir John Bell, a member of the government’s coronavirus taskforce, revealed this week that the initial results could be ready by June. The team hope to produce one million doses of the resulting vaccine by September, if successful.

Writing on Twitter, Prof Sikora – who is currently chief medical officer at Rutherford Health – caveated his hopeful comments with the statement: “Nobody is claiming to know what will happen for sure – I believe in an unknown situation this is a possibility.

“We need to continue to keep our distance and hope the numbers continue to improve.”

 

1 minute ago, Stromboli1 said:

 

You might have preexisting nerve damage.

 

Rub that and stretch it out.

I hope not  I've never any any issues with my shoulders

I guess I can try, maybe a hot shower would help 

6 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

Anything's possible cause we have no idea what's going on in the first place and I think neither do the experts.

I guess you're right 

I shall return 

1 minute ago, Matt! said:

I hope not  I've never any any issues with my shoulders

 

I guess I can try, maybe a hot shower would help 

Okay

Do that and stretch it out afterwards.

4 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

I still stand by my original thoughts.

It feels like it's been forever to us (at least to me), but in science terms, the virus is still very new and they are just beginning to learn. With SARS, the virus died and they gave up on creating a vaccine. This one seems to spread easier, but who knows.

Mainly, you are right, the experts don't know definitively. The virus needs to be around longer for them to have a chance to understand so many things about it.

If you want to get freaked out and your mind blown watch this.

3 minutes ago, jkjk said:

It feels like it's been forever to us (at least to me), but in science terms, the virus is still very new and they are just beginning to learn. With SARS, the virus died and they gave up on creating a vaccine. This one seems to spread easier, but who knows.

 

Mainly, you are right, the experts don't know definitively. The virus needs to be around longer for them to have a chance to understand so many things about it.

Yeah it's going to take some time before we know more about this virus.

27 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

Do that and stretch it out afterwards.

I don't know, I didn't really feel any pain while gently stretching...I guess its alright..I took some ibuprofen just in case..

21 minutes ago, Stromboli1 said:

If you want to get freaked out and your mind blown watch this.

2h 15min no thanks 

1 minute ago, Matt! said:

I don't know, I didn't really feel any pain while gently stretching...I guess its alright..I took some ibuprofen just in case..

Okay good.

Just now, Stromboli1 said:

 

Okay good.

1 minute ago, Matt! said:

2h 15min no thanks 

He talks about his time at Area 51 seeing/working with alien spacecrafts and element 115 that didn't exist at the time of working there.

Just now, Stromboli1 said:

 

He talks about his time at Area 51 seeing/working with alien spacecrafts and element 115 that didn't exist at the time of working there.

Noooo I find that stuff super fascinating  

1 minute ago, Matt! said:

Noooo I find that stuff super fascinating  

There's a documentary too on Netflix.............. Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers.

1 minute ago, Stromboli1 said:

 

There's a documentary too on Netflix.............. Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers.

Interesting..I searched it and looks like I've already started it, but never finished I'm 27 minutes in

1 minute ago, Matt! said:

Interesting..I searched it and looks like I've already started it, but never finished I'm 27 minutes in

Watch the rest.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52701420

He thinks US economy will bend, but not break..