Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

To be honest Dave your source is the BBC.

You support the BBC now?

Yikes.

The Lancet.

All I ask is that you look at their findings on that video.

 

[bernie inn]

So Europe has closed the borders to the UK, had the UK used its geographical advantage and closed its own borders in March, it wouldn’t be in this shambles now. Yes the economy would have been destroyed, but so has everybody else’s.

 

[Goat]

The Lancet.

All I ask is that you look at their findings on that video.

I dont watch BBC news Dave.

Sorry.

 

[davek]

Not one person who took the Oxford vaccine became seriously ill or died.

Your continued focus on the efficacy percentage, instead of wether it stops people from becoming very ill or dying just shows your level of ingorance. Keep on chatting wham though.

Let me underline this once again for the hard of learning: the Oxford trials have been critiqued widely for their lack of rigour in testing older age groups.

 

[Goat]

the Oxford trials have been critiqued widely for their lack of rigour in testing older age groups.

Mainly by shareholders in the other vaccines.

 

[davek]

Even if the vaccine is only 60-70% effective, why would you still not want it?

I'll take any of them when offered

Because it's not defo even 60-70 %...it can be as low as 41%....and is there any point in asking why someone would prefer a vaccine that gives 95% immunity to that Oxford vaccine?

 

[davek]

Mainly by shareholders in the other vaccines.

Nope.

 

[Goat]

Nope.

And Trump.

 

[davek]

And Trump.

I wish they'd given him the AstraZenica vaccine, it would have expedited matters.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Because it's not defo even 60-70 %...it can be as low as 41%....and is there any point in asking why someone would prefer a vaccine that gives 95% immunity to that Oxford vaccine?

That 41% figure is news to me

 

[Goat]

That 41% figure is news to me

Dave got it direct from Jimmy Saville.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Even if the vaccine is only 60-70% effective, why would you still not want it?

I'll take any of them when offered

Seems a good chance we’ll need more than one go round so one way or another likely to get a few different companies versions in your arm by the end anyhow.

 

[Goat]

Seems a good chance we’ll need more than one go round so one way or another likely to get a few different companies versions in your arm by the end anyhow.

Im waiting for the North Face 1 laaaaaaaaaaaaad.

 

[davek]

That 41% figure is news to me

That's the 'range of uncertainty'.

 

[BlueToff]

Back it up, prove it.

They proved it themselves at the time but this is an article from March 13th (IIRC the press conference with the graphs etc was March 12th).

Coronavirus: science chief defends UK plan from criticism

Patrick Vallance says aim is to broaden peak of epidemic as Jeremy Hunt raises concerns

www.theguardian.com