On Monday, Pfizer announced that early analysis of the coronavirus vaccine it has been developing with BioNTech suggested the vaccine was a success. A promising development considering the pandemic has already killed roughly 1.3 million people.
Pfizer provided only sparse details from its clinical trial but said the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the disease among volunteers who had no evidence of prior coronavirus infection. If the results hold up, that level of protection would put it on par with highly effective childhood vaccines for diseases such as measles. No serious safety concerns have been observed, the company said.
The good news prompted an avalanche of memes, celebrating the vaccine. Without wasting a second, Bored Panda selected some of the best ones to commemorate the occasion, so continue scrolling and enjoy.
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Ah yes, being from the UK I can say I miss the old Reliant fields with the Scimitars standing proud and the Robins swaying in the breeze as the kittens gently rev in the trees
In a way we all contributed, especially the covidiots who made it imperative that scientists found the cure so they worked double time to save us from ourselves
What I do Is glare at people super hard and they back away and for the rest of the day I'm gloowwwinnng
Ditto what @Soap said> THIS IS NOT A CURE IT IS A POSSIBLE PREVENTIVE/PALLIATIVE. THat IS IT. And that's if it works as promised (as a miracle)...
I think that their next project should be a cure for stupidity, preferably in the form of tea
As soon as I saw this, my mind flashes back to 6th grade, when everyone was like "what's hard and starts with a D? Dinosaurs!!!" (sigh)
"Of course they deny. Just like everyone is denying that I won the elections. But I won the elections, by a lot. A tremendous bigly lot and there's voter fraud all over the place, I know that because no one knows more about fraud than I do. "
I'm going to order the Deluxe version that comes with the maps, lunchbox, bobbleheads and free DLC's for a year.
We're laughing now - but this is exactly what will be called for when the Russian vaccine causes the zombie apocalypse.. ;)
Somebody tell me what the rapidly spinning thing is. It looks like Speak & Spell and Simon Says had a toy child.
And now you get a new job: Planning vaccinations for over 300 million people while having to deal with anti-vaxxers, identity-chip conspiracy theorists and 5G radiation fools. Good luck.
Which means that by taking the vaccine, you have 90% chance of not having to test your luck against the COVID-19 mortality odds. Yay!
Not from the UK are you? NHS means it is free and if you don't qualify it will be about £9
IF you think about it the people who think there are microchips in the vaccine most likely weren't going to take it either way.
I know it's stupid to say, I know, but deep in my heart I hope there will be an anti vax movement against the covid vaccine, and that therefore there will be enough for my parents without them having to fight for it.
Aww that isnt horrible at all. ❤ we are all hoping that there will be enough for everyone expically the elderly, sick, and people with medical conditions like my brother.
Load More Replies...I rarely agree with @JayLoren, but... Yeah. This is a disaster in the making. Pfizer hasn't released enough data for us to know (of course), but from inside the medical community, I can say this: We're not betting lives on this vaccine. If all else about it is perfect as claimed? It still has to be stored at -70*C. That is a freezer few facilities have, and outside maybe NYC/London-sized cities, hospitals won't be able to afford *one* such freezer, let alone *several*, to store required numbers of doses WHEN they are available (maybe 2022) for the average person. Memes aren't appropriate here. Suspicion and caution, yes. Peace, and please, WASH, MASK, DISTANCE. The VIRUS is not a hoax. Cure and vaccine claims... possibly are. Peace. Safety. And peace.
A little skepticism is never wrong. Yes, there are some hurdles like the -70°C ( -94°F) transportation and storage temperature. But when given the choice between a 90% effective vaccine and totally nothing else, the choice is simple. Should we wait for a 100% effective vaccination when worldwide per day over 5000 people are dying? Desperate times call for desperate measures. No it isn't ideal, but at this moment it just will have to do.
Load More Replies...And to think that COVID-19 is only one of "An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over." [Source: National Geographic] Only a tiny fraction of these are capable of passing from other animal species into humans (zoonotic transfer) but that still leaves a multitude of possibilities. We should never be complacent when it comes to new viruses and their potential to become and epidemic and ultimately a pandemic. Let's hope we have all learnt a lesson from our present predicament...
I know it's stupid to say, I know, but deep in my heart I hope there will be an anti vax movement against the covid vaccine, and that therefore there will be enough for my parents without them having to fight for it.
Aww that isnt horrible at all. ❤ we are all hoping that there will be enough for everyone expically the elderly, sick, and people with medical conditions like my brother.
Load More Replies...I rarely agree with @JayLoren, but... Yeah. This is a disaster in the making. Pfizer hasn't released enough data for us to know (of course), but from inside the medical community, I can say this: We're not betting lives on this vaccine. If all else about it is perfect as claimed? It still has to be stored at -70*C. That is a freezer few facilities have, and outside maybe NYC/London-sized cities, hospitals won't be able to afford *one* such freezer, let alone *several*, to store required numbers of doses WHEN they are available (maybe 2022) for the average person. Memes aren't appropriate here. Suspicion and caution, yes. Peace, and please, WASH, MASK, DISTANCE. The VIRUS is not a hoax. Cure and vaccine claims... possibly are. Peace. Safety. And peace.
A little skepticism is never wrong. Yes, there are some hurdles like the -70°C ( -94°F) transportation and storage temperature. But when given the choice between a 90% effective vaccine and totally nothing else, the choice is simple. Should we wait for a 100% effective vaccination when worldwide per day over 5000 people are dying? Desperate times call for desperate measures. No it isn't ideal, but at this moment it just will have to do.
Load More Replies...And to think that COVID-19 is only one of "An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over." [Source: National Geographic] Only a tiny fraction of these are capable of passing from other animal species into humans (zoonotic transfer) but that still leaves a multitude of possibilities. We should never be complacent when it comes to new viruses and their potential to become and epidemic and ultimately a pandemic. Let's hope we have all learnt a lesson from our present predicament...
