Dare We Hope?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-could-give-22363391

It would be marvellous if this could be put out before October and the ‘flu season, we can but hope that there’s going to be a breakthrough against this terrible illness

[New Judge]

//If the number infected remains constant at about 0.04% and you meet folk each day for a month, the probability of meeting an infected person during that time goes up to 1.35% or about 1 in 75.//

Depends how many you meet. If you meet one person (the same person) every day you would have to know how many he met between times. If he met nobody then the risk would not increase. All a bit "what iffy" really. However you judge it, the odds against encountering somebody infected with the virus are very long. The odds against them actually passing it to you are even longer and the chances of you being seriously affected by it are longer still. The country simply cannot continue with this strategy of trying to prevent spread. All it's doing is extending the period that restrictions have to be taken and extending the non-Covid damage that is occurring.

[ichkeria]

The snag with all this is that just because a vaccine produces antibodies does not mean it will be effective.
So that is only stage one of the process.