Inject it into my veins
Researchers yesterday (November 9) unveiled they had produced a coronavirus vaccine with a 90 per cent success rate, a major scientific and technological feat that could see the entire world attending enormous water park festivals next summer.
The vaccine was produced by Pfizer, an American multinational pharmaceutical firm, in collaboration with Germany’s BioNTech, whose co-founder said of the achievement: “To me, this is the best possible outcome. A great day for science and humanity.”
British health secretary Matt Hancock has said that the vaccine could be available on the NHS before Christmas, and he’s also asked the health service to be ready to roll it out as early as next month. “We will be working across the NHS with the support of the armed forces seven days a week, over weekends, over bank holidays, to get this rolled out into people’s arms as quickly as possible,” he told the BBC today.
Currently, the policy is that the injection would not be required for children, and the uptake of it in the rest of the population would be voluntary. The priority will go to care homes, social care staff, and the elderly, and will be delivered through GPs as well as “go-to” centres set up in local venues like sports halls, the Guardian reported.
Whether or not the government will add the distribution of a vaccine to a growing list of things it’s got horribly wrong during the coronavirus pandemic remains to be seen, but Hancock added: “We’ve been working on it for months in anticipation of this going right. We haven’t got a vaccine yet, we’re not there yet. But we are one important step closer and we’re ready, we’ll be ready to deploy it.”
There won’t be enough for everyone straight away – 100 million doses are expected by the end of 2020 and 1.3 billion by the end of 2021 – and the initial batches may go to the queue-jumping rich, buying their way to immunity while the rest of the world suffers. In the meantime everyone is laughing at vaccine memes, some of which we’ve gathered below.
me in summer 2024 when the British government actually manages to distribute this vaccine https://t.co/v67nld273Cpic.twitter.com/yhJoS7iGg3
— shon faye. (@shonfaye) November 9, 2020
me when people ask who i feel about Pfizer pic.twitter.com/JAmxW0ju7M
— Louis Staples (@LouisStaples) November 9, 2020
Inject it into my veins https://t.co/5UQQsjkhqO
— Simon (@simonk_133) November 9, 2020
the Pfizer vaccine entering my body and meeting all my cells pic.twitter.com/P7jB5wn9Xn
— Louis Staples (@LouisStaples) November 9, 2020
Me and the bros 20 minutes after getting the COVID vaccine, even as the pharmacist chases after me yelling that you need a second dose for it to be effective pic.twitter.com/IHu8QNUlJB
— Barry Petchesky (@barry) November 9, 2020
News in 2020 NME in 2011
— Alex Collinson (@Alex__Collinson) November 9, 2020
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Really excited about vaccines
Introverts looking at the COVID Vaccine knowing lockdown could end #vaccine#Pfizerpic.twitter.com/skTJZ6m9pI
— Nathan Boachie (@nathan_boachie) November 9, 2020
me when the vaccine drops on the NHS 💉 pic.twitter.com/JICbS0gSzm
— Eloise Hendy (@EloiseHendy) November 10, 2020
When you realise that Christmas is around the corner, Trump is on his way out and a vaccine may have been found pic.twitter.com/fSpGXZdQN1
— Uncle Bryn Memes (@UncleBryn2) November 9, 2020
Pfizer called and they don’t know you or Trump. pic.twitter.com/HjKGIXRG6q
— Gailen David (@gailendavid) November 9, 2020