Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Glasgow and St Andrews and Public Health Scotland (PHS) looked at data on people who had received either the Pfizer/BioNTech jab or the one developed by scientists at the University of Oxford with AstraZeneca.
Four weeks after receiving the initial dose, the Oxford jab appeared to reduce a person's risk of hospital admission by 94%.
Those who received the Pfizer jab had a reduction in risk of 85% between 28 and 34 days after the first dose.
Data for the two jabs combined showed that among people over the age of 80 - who are at high risk of severe disease - the reduction in risk of hospital admission was 81% four weeks after the first dose.
@ToffeeTim imagine thinking this was a negative
FAKE NEWS
Probably not - they'd just invent some other strain to terrify everybody
The Penalty Box Dancer
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I think we have to accept there is going to be an infection rate amongst us as we open up and get back to normality. As long as people are protected are we willing to accept infections around the younger age groups and long as hospitilsations stay down?
It depends on whether the virus can become ‘active’ again once you’ve had it.
some viruses can lay dormant in your system (like cold sores). I’ve no idea if this can happen for covid or not.
If not, on the basis that everyone was isolating alone, yes.
if they were isolating with others m, then you’d need more than a month and how long would depend on how many people were in the household.
grandjoeblue
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Hard to say for sure as could it transfer from say pets?
Realistically that couldn't happen due to food and water anyway. In many countries in Africa they can't lockdown due to basic human needs not being fulfilled.
It's never going away!
It's not about 'beating it', it's purely about managing it
Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Glasgow and St Andrews and Public Health Scotland (PHS) looked at data on people who had received either the Pfizer/BioNTech jab or the one developed by scientists at the University of Oxford with AstraZeneca.
Four weeks after receiving the initial dose, the Oxford jab appeared to reduce a person's risk of hospital admission by 94%.
Those who received the Pfizer jab had a reduction in risk of 85% between 28 and 34 days after the first dose.
Data for the two jabs combined showed that among people over the age of 80 - who are at high risk of severe disease - the reduction in risk of hospital admission was 81% four weeks after the first dose.
@ToffeeTim imagine thinking this was a negative
Well, that`s Scotland well and truly back onto the MURDERERS list.
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davek
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Utter tosh.
-Rob-
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Typical Davek response to what was a very honest and common sense statement. Are you expecting the pandemic to last forever?
In what way is it 'utter tosh'?
How do we beat COVID, realistically? It's not going to disappear. So, we have to severely negate it's impact on people when they catch it, which is what the vaccine does. Or, we wouldn't be bothering with a vaccine at all.
That doesn't mane the vaccine is the only focus, but it's a big bloody part of the solution.
davek
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"The vaccines are reducing the pandemic to nothing more than an every day bug"...that's commonsense to you is it?
The Tory Kool Aid has been swigged one too many times if you come out with or support 'kin nonsense like that.
It's embarrassing. No, sorry, it's not. It's an insult.
davek
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The vaccines are good news. Of course they are. But dont believe the hype around them atm...they are being used politically in a cynical attempt to open up everywhere too early.
gav1985
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He didn't say that? He said the key to beating Covid is not to hide away, but to reduce it's impact to nothing more than a bug. The vaccines alone won't do that but it is what the aim should be.
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