[Professional]

Leading? Gee, how would one measure that?

[gas_dr]

I have been watching all the vaccine companies of any repute — Oxford does appear to be the real deal. If efficacious, they can distribute in 2 months. Results will be in approximately 6 weeks.

The psychological effect will likely be profound and work toward reopening — I imagine there will be some stalling as something immediately before the election could likely move things in a way the masters of the universe find unacceptable.

As a critical care physician, if there is something that made it through phase III trials with validity, I would not hesitate to be inoculated. We have quietly put a Manhattan project like feel around this, and I am actually optimistic that we will have something in hand by fall.

[elbook]

“has started a late-stage trial,”

When a “a Chinese firm,” is probably dubious (and the chinese military might not care how many of their men the kill already using it)

With this ones testing through into 2021 when they arent sure “whether or not the vaccine is effective” is still too much up in the air.

In reality is it all that close to having a workable vaccine, all that much closer than the many competitors ?

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Big Announcements when there are actual usable results is better.

[EEGator]

Well, you take the number 1 and call it x.
Lim(x-> infinity) 1/x

First one to zero wins.

[indthkr]

"Leading? Gee, how would one measure that?"

Probably by the number of ChiCom hacking attacks into the researcher's computers.