Vaccine Hopes Grow

It may be the news that we have all been waiting for but preliminary results from the Pfizer trial has found that the COVID-19 vaccine found to be 90% effective when tested on 43,538 participants from six countries.
Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, the deputy chief medical officer for England, has said that he is 'hopeful that some people could get vaccinated by Christmas' and that the UK government has ordered 40m doses of the Pfizer vaccine which is enough for about a third of the population, since you need two doses each.
There would be a wait of between 21 and 28 days between doses and it would be released in stages. People in care homes will come first, then the over-80s and NHS staff and the clinically vulnerable then the over-75s, followed by the over-70s and the over-65s.
The Government has tempered expectations by warning the study is still ongoing and even if the vaccine gets the red light, then it will still be the other side of Christmas before the vaccination program starts but maybe we can finally see some light at the end of this very long and dark tunnel.