This made me laugh ..,, petition for uk to declare war on nz then immediately surrender so that Jacinda takes power

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12340019

I for one would welcome that, as the halfwits in charge in London, couldn't run a bath, never mind a Country! A Ferret in a suit, could do a better job, than that Clown Boris Johnson Blondey!

Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061281

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.

The first drug proven to cut deaths from Covid-19 is not some new, expensive medicine but an old, cheap-as-chips steroid.

Some very good news of a treatment for those seriously ill with Coronavirus.

dexamethasone is a drug I am very familiar with at the hospital .

the scientific study has not yet been released just a press statement . ..

From that statement it has been reported as showing some treatment benefit to those with severe illness on ventilators where the risk of Severe inflammation is more harmful than the virus . Not seen as having any benefit for those able to breathe on their own .

Will wait with interest for the official study release

Yes it is only a treatment for those seriously ill with the Coronavirus, but these must be the patients at most risk of death from the disease. We also hear on the tv that all our NHS hospitals in the UK have been advised of its use as a treatment against the disease in those circumstances.

A welcome first step on the way to finding more treatments, cures and hopefully a vaccine, and with the vast amount of research taking place around the world these will follow soon.

Apparently, according to a friend of my younger brother (he used to work for the NHS and it's quite a big network) who was working at the Hospital where Boris was treated, he was given Antibody treatment and it worked very well.

I don't get all this vaccine fuss. So far we've had 9.5 mill cases of which 5.1 million have recovered. Without a vaccine.
3.8 mill are still experiencing mild symptoms.
483.000 have died so far worldwide.
Spanish flu had 30-40 MILLION killed worldwide, most of which withing ONE month! (October). Now THAT would've been something to worry about!

So... why the bleep fuss about a vaccine? The best protection is our own immune system. I don't want a vaccine. Certainly not one that's been cooked up in a lab in a few months time, not properly tested, and that for a disease we know bleep all about!
Total insanity to use that on people.
Unless there's a 2nd wave to come, then maybe. A small maybe. In the meantime they should fine-tune whatever vaccine they cooked up and test it properly, and not on humans yet.

This idiocy and fear has people lose sight of normal regulation for new meds that are to be used on people. There's a reason we don't just use newly cooked up stuff without thoroughly testing them. And even then things can go wrong.