Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

Don't usually agree with you, but common sense seems to be lacking here. Ultimately, have they contributed to spreading the disease? No. Move on.

I watched the East Midlands BBC news earlier. The Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire was asked whether his officers followed the same rules. He sat there with a bit of a smirk on his face and said no, we apply a bit of common sense. The BBC woman tried everything to trip him up but he just kept smirking and when asked whether Derbyshire were right in doing what they have he said, well you should ask them really...

Even better was when they went to Elvaston Castle country park in Derby and interviewed people. One lad said this is stupid yet some smug woman said yes they should keep other people away from here. When asked where she was from she said Spondon ( a few miles up the road), when the interviewer pointed out that the police said that they had also excluded Spondon, the smile disappeared.....

 

[Goat]

Shed time.

ps hope she gets through it without too much grief!

Shes only had mild symptoms so far and they seem to be getting better.

 

[peteblue]

Tesco have offered help.

We have huge car parks.
Trained Pharmacists who do jabs already.
Massive freezers and fridge rooms available for storage.
Dealing with queues of people for months, and are already up with speed to cleaning etc.

Amazed, or rather shouldn’t be anymore, that we haven’t been doing jabs for days already..

what about special offers or out of date vaccine ?.....

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Shes only had mild symptoms so far and they seem to be getting better.

That’s good news. Hopefully she will be okay

 

[mahermi1]

what about special offers or out of date vaccine ?.....

Whoopsies Pete, get there about 08:00 in the evening.....or so am told..

 

[Goat]

That’s good news. Hopefully she will be okay

She gave them her contacts, as of yet no notifications...............

Nice to see the system working.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

She gave them her contacts, as of yet no notifications...............

Nice to see the system working.

ffs

 

[Neiler]

Another therapy to use against Covid19- Blocking cytokine IL6 with drugs used for arthritis improves outcome and survival by 25%.

Interleukin-6 Receptor Antagonists in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19 – Preliminary report

Background The efficacy of interleukin-6 receptor antagonists in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is unclear. Methods We evaluated tocilizumab and sarilumab in an ongoing international, multifactorial, adaptive platform trial. Adult patients with Covid-19, within...

www.medrxiv.org

 

[Neiler]

Israel has given the first vaccine dose to 17% of the population. 64% of those over 60 have been vaccinated.

 

[Neiler]

Strong evidence from the Crotty lab that infection will protect against reinfection for approx 8, evidence suggests antibodies persist for at least 8 months.

Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection | Science

science.sciencemag.org

 

[Neiler]

This study has analysed CoV2 variants (including UK and South African) for likelihood of current vaccines failing. Author concludes ‘confident current vaccines will be useful for quite a while’.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.31.425021v1.full.pdf

 

[Neiler]

Study from UK: decrease in deaths as priority groups vaccinated. Late Feb when top 4 groups vaccinated in the UK (care home residents, healthcare workers, over 70s and extremely vulnerable) the lethality of the virus should fall by 90%.

https://c8930375-0dbb-4319-ae2f-025f70d4b441.filesusr.com/ugd/ab45f7_a40832c6069842e6af33fcf2b06611bf.pdf

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Just got back from a walk along the river and Old Kent Road was packed. No idea where people are going.

 

[BlueToff]

I dont think they are walking down the high street ringing a bell with a sandwich board on, but they are doing their best not to waste any, where possible. Jabbing more surgery staff that have little patient contact, the pharmacy workers next door. That sort of stuff.

Oh yeah. I think they were offering to staff at surgeries as a priority though I've seen people saying that patients at the time have also been offered it.

BTW, I totally agree with it. Just get people vaxxed up

 

[Tubey]

Just got back from a walk along the river and Old Kent Road was packed. No idea where people are going.

I believe they're taking their horses there and then they're going to ride till they can't no more.