Coronavirus vaccine: how excited should we be?
Ғылым және технология
Drug giant Pfizer and German biotech firm BioNTech have just announced that they have a coronavirus vaccine which is 90% effective. Is it time to party yet?
You won’t be surprised to hear that things are a bit more complicated than that-but this is still legitimate cause for optimism. Find out about the good, the bad and the logistically challenging by watching the video!
Video chapters
00:00 What we know
01:09 mRNA vaccines
02:18 The caveats
04:58 How much can we make?
07:51 Why I really hope this works
Sources
Here are some of the sources I used when researching this video:
Pfizer and BioNTech’s press release about the results: www.pfizer.com/news/press-rel...
Excellent BBC News article on the subject: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-548...
If you want to know a bit more, this STAT article goes into more detail than the BBC: www.statnews.com/2020/11/09/c...
A statement from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness, CEPI, putting the results into context: cepi.net/news_cepi/cepi-state...
Twitter thread on the logistical difficulties of transporting a vaccine at −80°C: / 1325774250888884227
Preliminary advice to the UK Government on prioritising people for vaccination: www.gov.uk/government/publica...
And this article from Tom Chivers wasn’t written at the time I made this, but it’s also really good, including a deeper dive on the unknowns about the stats: unherd.com/2020/11/yes-the-va...
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@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Vinay! I'm hoping now I've got a bit more time to make videos I might be able to take it off the back burner and get a few more subs. :)
I only found your channel a month ago and I can't believe how have I been missing on it for so long. Your videos are so concise, clear and simple, and yet so thorough and deeply informative. I think you may be one of the best science communicators right now in this platform, I hope your channel grows as you deserve. By the way, I loved the changing background, an incredibly simple way of keeping a minimalistic way of conveying information and yet gives a certain dynamism to the piece. Thank you for your work!!
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And glad you noticed the background! Very quick turnaround for this one so no graphics and I wanted to do something. :) (Just don't tell anyone that I left my computer keying out the greenscreen overnight…only to replace half of it with a green background this morning!)
I've only discovered you recently Andrew, but the videos I have watched have been fantastic. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, glad you've been enjoying my videos!
This is a brilliant summary, thanks Andrew!
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Tom!
First this is an amazing and informative video! Details like explaining how the coronavirus works and not only adding pros but also cons made this a really good video about the coronavirus vaccine. In short its just remarkable!!! :D
would love to see a part 2 on this topic considering how immunity was promised in the media and how immunity is working in real life
@DrAndrewSteele
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting idea, I’ll add it to the (long!!) list :)
clear concise explanation!! good work andrew!
Your absolutely brilliant you deserve a million subscribers
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, JC Denton!
Thanks for this Andrew.
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
Thank you for the information!
Wow most underrated channel I have ever seen
This guy deserves so many more subscribers.
Thank you, this was very informative!
Great explainer, thanks for sharing
Medlife crisis has exactly same video. I am subscribed to both thess channel and am only watching them now back to back and it left like deja vu.
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Haha yeah I was surprised how similar they are too!
Great video, very informative. I'm hopeful, as I'm sure we all are, but I worry we may be blinded by it. Should we not be more sceptical?
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I definitely think it's time for some cautious optimism. Virologists are excited, so I am too!
This is brilliant! Thanks for an informative video!
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I'd assume everyone on the trial had weekly swabs to test for Covid which would pick up people who are asymptomatic?
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Apparently not in this case! From what I read this is how the Oxford/AstraZeneca trial is being done, and I'm not 100% sure why Pfizer didn't do this (I guess it's potentially a hassle?) and they've not released their full protocol, so I guess we'll have to wait and see. :)
Another amazing video, making science understandable for everyone :) thanks for that.
@DrAndrewSteele
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Cher :)
What are your views on the mRNA vaccines now? In Australia 12,000,000 cases over 10,000,000 in fully vaccinated people.