Valneva - A Vaccine Candidate from Scotland

During this past year over two hundred groups have been working on their own vaccines to combat the CoronaVirus. You can see them listed using the COVID-19 VACCINE TRACKER

By now the BIONTECH/PFIZER is being distributed. The MODERNA should be distributed by the time this newsletter is published.

AstraZeneca is the third vaccine that is next in line for distribution.

Valneva - situated in Livingston, West Lothian - is beginning clinical trials. The UK government has pre-ordered 60 million doses, hoping that this vaccine candidate will be effective.

If the Valneva vaccine works out to be effective, the facility in Livingston will manufacture about 250 million vaccine doses by years' (2021) end.

I've discovered a web site where you can drink up lovely photos of Glasgow.

It's called "I Love Glasgow". For those people who are into Instagram you can follow them here.

For those who want a direct line to the web site go to I Love Glasgow

You'll discover nice places to visit and enjoy in Glasgow.

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A captivating display of drones illuminated the skies over Scotland pic.twitter.com/6kKynG7uxM
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 30, 2020

It's #MathsWeekScotland! Maths is a huge part of daily life - it's all around us and we use it all the time. There are lots of fascinating jobs which use maths too. Our statistician @et_roughsedge loves her maths-related job - watch this & discover why! #NRSStats @mathsweekscot pic.twitter.com/xqsbSEohoK
— NatRecordsScot (@NatRecordsScot) September 28, 2020

Richard Bowdler Sharpe was born #OTD in 1847. Librarian @ZSLLibrary he then became Curator of the Bird Collection @NHM_London from 1872. Read Christine E. Jackson’s #free to access #paper about Sharpe & his 10 daughters. Published in our Archives: https://t.co/mFla4D7Aax pic.twitter.com/ukNGQhr1j3
— SHNH (@SHNHSocNatHist) November 22, 2020

Today the Scottish General Election (Coronavirus) Bill was passed. #SP21 will take place on May 6th 2021 and will be the most important in Scotland's history 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Register to vote: https://t.co/7dbI5awhzh

Register for a postal vote: https://t.co/yhssa3UOes pic.twitter.com/pcYj1HrbBI
— Keiran O'Neill (@KeiranON) December 23, 2020

Coronavirus: 18 cases of new variant detected in Scotland - most in Greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire areas https://t.co/MMxjqYIBNh
— Helen McArdle (@HMcArdleHT) December 21, 2020

Good for Scotland, bad for the USA. Again, we see another example of other countries doing the right thing, and our country continuing to do the wrong thing. We need to get off of fossil fuels, and start living in the 21st century. This isn't rocket science. https://t.co/e6butkKpfJ
— Dennis Noel (@DNoel97) December 17, 2020

A wet and wild walk across the Kilpatrick Hills today. Cracking views of the Campsies and Ben Lomond.#scotland #walking pic.twitter.com/F5bZ1nM0X2
— Glen Rooke (@RooketScience) December 12, 2020

Long-Lost Artifact Taken From Inside the Great Pyramid Found By Chance In Scotland: In 1872, engineer Wayneman Dixon found three objects inside the “Queen’s Chamber” of the Great Pyramid of Giza – a hook, a granite ball, and a… https://t.co/ddUi4dud9g #history #weird #science pic.twitter.com/ij3LR4h8tB
— Troubled Minds (@TroubledMindsR) December 17, 2020

Less-snowy winters are creating a camouflage "mismatch" that could expose Scotland's mountain hares — which molt from a summer dark coat to a winter white coat — to predators, says a new study that includes Eberly @PennStateBio researcher Sean Giery. https://t.co/bV62XokEl8 pic.twitter.com/zcoA5PPBF3
— Penn State Eberly College of Science (@PSUScience) December 17, 2020

Just discovered you can track gritters in Scotland and - even better - they have names like Gritney Spears, Spready Mercury and Licence to Chill... ❄️ https://t.co/JQAxhBzcrZ pic.twitter.com/6K5eVEuCCj
— Sue Nelson (@ScienceNelson) December 9, 2020

Good News!
Kids Under 15 are half as likely to get COVID and half as likely to transmit the virus — compared to adults

40,000 persons studied

Germany, France, Iceland, Scotland and much of Europe keeps schools open. With precautions, it’s a good stephttps://t.co/BO5Gt7WPRV
— Faheem Younus, MD (@FaheemYounus) December 12, 2020

Clinical trials have begun in the UK for a new #COVID19 vaccine being developed in Scotland https://t.co/PdjV136Np0
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 16, 2020

Coronavirus was almost wiped out in Scotland during the summer, according to two new scientific studies, which say the second wave of infections was caused largely by travel.https://t.co/blmKI81L4C
— ITV News Border (@ITVborder) December 9, 2020

This chart shows how the rate at which coronavirus is spreading in Wales (red line) has outstripped every other UK nation. More than twice as many in Wales are being infected with the virus every week as in England (yellow) - and more than four times as many as in Scotland (blue) pic.twitter.com/IwQMDBaej3
— WalesOnline (@WalesOnline) December 15, 2020

Edzell Castle Gardens, Scotland. pic.twitter.com/cpH5Mch81A
— Tracy Hogan (@HoganSOG) December 17, 2020

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— cecilia BLM (@ceciliavfx) November 26, 2020

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