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At 1077, this is indeed a promising result. I genuinely hope this isn't yet another marketing stunt(of which we've seen a lot lately). Mind you, > The vaccine
by axegon_ 6y ago
At 1077, this is indeed a promising result. I genuinely hope this isn't yet another marketing stunt(of which we've seen a lot lately). Mind you,
> The vaccine - called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 - is being developed at unprecedented speed.
Seriously? Did they ask a 9 year old to pick a nickname?
- ArgyleSound 6y agoLol, it stands for Chimpanzee Adenovirus Oxford. Not too unconventional a name.
- bagpuss 6y agoChimpanzee Adenovirus Oxford type 1 the 'nickname' follows a standard nomenclature for this kind of thing. Chadox does sound like a new brand of underarm deodorant though
- jpxw 6y agoIt stands for the Chad Oxford vaccine (as opposed to the virgin Oxford vaccine)
- Rexxar 6y agoMy first thought when I saw the name : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Shadoks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Shadoks
- lifeisstillgood 6y ago>> "When one tries continuously, one ends up succeeding. Thus, the more one fails, the greater the chance that it will work." Philosophy of French '60s cartoon birds eerily similar to modern software development methodologies