Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Spadge Vernacular]

Up to the first week of this month, Astrazeneca reported 35 cases of thrombocytopenia in the UK linked to the vaccine. So 35 reports of clotting issues out of 54,000 suspected incidence of a host of various side effects from circa 10 million vaccinations administered here.

For balance, Pfizer has 22 reports of thrombocytopenia from a range of 33,000 reports of various side effects from roughly the same number of vaccinations.

This being the publicly available information, we can say that at this point the data indicates that the clotting disorder is comparable in both vaccines.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Get the cannons and rubber bullets out.

Fire free handbags and face masks towards their front doors, they'll soon lose any principles and run home...ahem.

*Runs and takes cover before I'm attacked, all the while shouting 'do you not get the irony of not being able to walk safely in the streets'*

 

[summerisle]

Still some problems in parts of the Northwest.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Get the cannons and rubber bullets out.

They were German and therefore too EU. The early days of Boris Johnson incompetence seemed so small, he only wasted £300,000 on them.

Whitty and the other one only said last week Black lives matter protests had little impact on the spike of infections, cant see how this will be different. Retrospective sack for that expert.

 

[SussexToffee]

We're so, so close. Just stop being tossers.

We’ll get there , and 98 days from now (1st June), things will be even better.

Hopefully the vaccine rollout is stopping the tossers from spreading it one way or the other.

 

[SussexToffee]

Still some problems in parts of the Northwest.

The government in the four tests, are not concerned about the cases, only hospital admissions, deaths and variants of concern alongside the vaccine rollout.

The case figures can still be a guide on variants of concern.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

the answer as to why they probably didn't receive much coverage is contained in that article, btw:

That the issue was linked to the patients being elderly, when the patients currently being vaccinated are....elderly?

 

[tsubaki]

That the issue was linked to the patients being elderly, when the patients currently being vaccinated are....elderly?

... and the issue here is that the people who've died here aren't elderly

 

[grandjoeblue]

Still some problems in parts of the Northwest.

They have nearly doubled the number of tests too since the week before so no surprise the numbers look like that.

 

[peteblue]

There's no proof the Oxford vaccine causes blood clots. So why are people worried? | David Spiegelhalter

It’s human nature to spot patterns in data. But we should be careful about finding causal links where none may exist, says statistician David Spiegelhalter

www.theguardian.com

 

[jinkyali]

Ilve never had a reaction to a vaccine before, and Ilm not expecting one with this (beyond the usual ones AZ have held their hands up to).

I had a rough 12 hours or so. Then fine.
Buy some paracetamol.

 

[Neiler]

They have nearly doubled the number of tests too since the week before so no surprise the numbers look like that.

That’s something, I’m really curious about, how has testing increased so much in the last few weeks after a year in to this and during the vaccine roll out...

 

[BlueToff]

Still some problems in parts of the Northwest.

Is there a link to vaccine uptake in those areas, and also a link to those being largely ethnic minority areas?

It's a real issue which people seem scared to talk about. The uptake - especially in the Asian population in certain areas - has to be better.

Just a thought, obviously don't know for certain.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

... and the issue here is that the people who've died here aren't elderly

The suspension started after the death of a 60-year-old Danish woman.

 

[BlueToff]

... and the issue here is that the people who've died here aren't elderly

I thought it was one death?