Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Toast]

I'm going crazy now with this now I'm reading the oxford vaccine is not effective against the south Africa variant, we are going to lose another summer.

Sky news just now had a very negative spin on this as well.

Mandatory tests leaked to them for all incoming travellers too.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I'm going crazy now with this now I'm reading the oxford vaccine is not effective against the south Africa variant, we are going to lose another summer.

Stop listening to the news mate - It prevents serious illness + death.

Its less effective in stopping you getting the sniffles by the nasty SA variant - can't say im too bothered.

 

[arminisgod]

I'm going crazy now with this now I'm reading the oxford vaccine is not effective against the south Africa variant, we are going to lose another summer.

i've read at least 2 scientists today who basically have told the media to shut up and stop scaring people. One went as far to say the SA news shouldn't even be newsworthy as the sample size is that small its pointless.

Also said the only reason its being reported is because the media want bad news.

Van Tam looked pissed off at the media today also

 

[davek]

Looks like the Us is going to stick with the 3 week dosing for Pfizer and 4 week for Moderna

REUTERS: The best defense against the evolution of COVID-19 and the emergence of variant strains is getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible, top US infectious disease doctor Anthony Fauci said on a Monday (Feb 8) media briefing.

Fauci said while it was reasonable to think about studying the efficacy of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccine as a one-dose regimen in light of supply vaccine constraints, such a study would take months to complete, thus likely making its conclusions moot. Fauci continued to encourage people get two doses of the vaccine.

Compare and contrast with our gormless Chief Medical Officer who takes the view that, if the data doesn't exist that efficacy definitley drops off with a 12 week delay between jabs, then that's a good reason to do it.

A useless, chinless Oxbridge tool - just like his bosses - who'll kill another 100,000 before the catastrophic handing of the covid19 crisis ends in the UK.

 

[davek]

i've read at least 2 scientists today who basically have told the media to shut up and stop scaring people. One went as far to say the SA news shouldn't even be newsworthy as the sample size is that small its pointless.

Also said the only reason its being reported is because the media want bad news.

Van Tam looked pissed off at the media today also

Yeah, blaming the messenger is the way forward here isn't it?

Amazing how many of you cold war advocates who decry the CCP for their centralisation of command wont denounce their own political class.

 

[arminisgod]

Compare and contrast with our gormless Chief Medical Officer who takes the view that, if the data doesn't exist that efficacy definitley drops off with a 12 week delay between jabs, then that's a good reason to do it.

A useless, chinless Oxbridge tool - just like his bosses - who'll kill another 100,000 before the catastrophic handing of the covid19 crisis ends in the UK.

want to tell me how many Dr Fauci has killed in the US?

 

[davek]

want to tell me how many Dr Fauci has killed in the US?

If you had half a clue about his work over there while being nobbled by your hero Trump then you wouldn't have posed that question.

 

[arminisgod]

Yeah, blaming the messenger is the way forward here isn't it?

Amazing how many of you cold war advocates who decry the CCP for their centralisation of command wont denounce their own political class.

 

[davek]

You effectively worship Johnson the same way as any North Korean party apparatchik does Kim Jong-Un.

 

[arminisgod]

You effectively worship Johnson the same way as any North Korean party apparatchik does Kim Jong-Un.

i don't even like Boris Johnson you utter odd ball

 

[LinekersLegs]

I'm going crazy now with this now I'm reading the oxford vaccine is not effective against the south Africa variant, we are going to lose another summer.

I wouldn't get too down with the news. Overall all the vaccine test results have been fantastic, far better than hoped for in terms of effectiveness on the person themselves and encouraging wrt to transmission.

The SA study was a very small sample size and scientists are both doing more testing to get better data and also working on booster shots to see if those will address any issues.

Whilst it is a concern, it also needs to be put under this perspective.

 

[arminisgod]

If you had half a clue about his work over there while being nobbled by your hero Trump then you wouldn't have posed that question.

enlighten me then...

 

[Blueclouds]

i've read at least 2 scientists today who basically have told the media to shut up and stop scaring people. One went as far to say the SA news shouldn't even be newsworthy as the sample size is that small its pointless.

Also said the only reason its being reported is because the media want bad news.

Van Tam looked pissed off at the media today also

Thanks for this, I'm starting to go stir crazy and was hoping to see family and friends in the summer.

 

[COYBL25]

Thanks for this, I'm starting to go stir crazy and was hoping to see family and friends in the summer.

Yet again, it’s some sections of the media trying to make the news, not report it mate.

 

[Walken]

If you had half a clue about his work over there while being nobbled by your hero Trump then you wouldn't have posed that question.

I think we can take the opinion of Fauci from his peers including Larry Brilliant over that of trump sycophant. Fauci has consistently been a very reassuring voice even in the backdrop of an anti-science regime and worked tirelessly to save lives while trump supporters sent death threats to his daughters