Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Mozza1987]

How can they stand there begging people not to mix tomorrow for New Year when, 'Covid loves a crowd' he said yet they are sending kids back next Monday. Laughable.

 

[davek]

Some interesting scientific reaction to the AZ vaccine and also the new made-up-on-the-back-of-a-fag packet plan to distance shots by 3 months rather than 3 weeks:

expert reaction to the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine being approved for use in the UK by the MHRA | Science Media Centre

www.sciencemediacentre.org

 

[peteblue]

Some interesting scientific reaction to the AZ vaccine and also the new made-up-on-the-back-of-a-fag packet plan to distance shots by 3 months rather than 3 weeks:

expert reaction to the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine being approved for use in the UK by the MHRA | Science Media Centre

www.sciencemediacentre.org

They seem to be agreeing with the response.....

 

[PhilM]

New cases recorded in the latest 24 hrs - 50,023

Deaths - people who died within 28 days of a positive covid - 19 test - 981

Total deaths - 72,548

A larger number than the total civilian deaths that were attributed to the war within Britain during WWII.

 

[davek]

They seem to be agreeing with the response.....

How d'you mean?

They are mostly questioning the desirablilty of delaying the second shot after the first. Pfizer have denied that their vaccine works to good effect if the second shot is delayed much beyond three weeks after the first, so there's a danger that the Pfizer vaccines will be compromised.

As for AZ - they underline that the research is unproven on older group effect.

That particular vaccine should therefore be sidelined where the elderly and vulnerable are concerned. They should be treated with one of the more efficacious vaccines.

That's just sensible.

 

[Nymzee]

There will be a butt load of house parties tomorrow going ahead for sure. I'd imagine most of my social media pages will be filled with them.

 

[peteblue]

How d'you mean?

They are mostly questioning the desirablilty of delaying the second shot after the first. Pfizer have denied that their vaccine works to good effect if the second shot is delayed much beyond three weeks after the first, so there's a danger that the Pfizer vaccines will be compromised.

As for AZ - they underline that the research is unproven on older group effect.

That particular vaccine should therefore be sidelined where the elderly and vulnerable are concerned. They should be treated with one of the more efficacious vaccines.

That's just sensible.

“The idea to just vaccinate as many vulnerable individuals as possible with just one dose of either vaccine (Pfizer or AstraZeneca) to start with, is a good approach given the recent surges of COVID-19 cases since Christmas”

 

[Tramps_mate]

This large deaths number includes almost 4-5 days of Ireland and Scotland combined doesn't it as neither reported from 24-28th...

 

[Tramps_mate]

Is Liverpool staying in tier 2??

 

[ChesterBlue]

A larger number than the total civilian deaths that were attributed to the war within Britain during WWII.

Scary stat that

 

[xena]

1129 to be precise. Incredible, if Germans bottle it too..I can only fear for the rest of Europe

And have they got the new virus that where supposed to have started yet ?

 

[Nymzee]

Is Liverpool staying in tier 2??

3

 

[peteblue]

There will be a butt load of house parties tomorrow going ahead for sure. I'd imagine most of my social media pages will be filled with them.

are they all idiots....

 

[Brennan]

Is fatality rate the same as infection rate to you?

Another one who sees what they want and not what's there.

 

[davek]

“The idea to just vaccinate as many vulnerable individuals as possible with just one dose of either vaccine (Pfizer or AstraZeneca) to start with, is a good approach given the recent surges of COVID-19 cases since Christmas”

That's one line in a very long list of comments.

The consensus seems to be 'yes, a step in the right direction', but unconvinced about the distancing between shots 1 and 2, and also the AZ efficacy where the elderly/vulnerable are concerned.