Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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The worry with Chile is that the vaccination programme has seen serious illness switch from the vaccinated older generation to the younger generation with hospitals again at capacity.

A bit of @davek caution might be prudent with regards to relaxing measures.
In fairness, the roadmap the UK government have laid out is already extremely prudent by any standards. Only people who think the earth is flat and spend their evenings talking to the fridge think we're going too fast.
 
Britain’s Covid vaccine programme faces a two-month delay in the event of an EU export ban, derailing the government’s plans to reopen the economy this summer, an analysis for the Guardian reveals.

A ban, due to be debated by leaders of the 27 EU member states on Thursday, would badly stall the UK vaccination effort, and would be likely to force the government to extend restrictions on people’s lives.

It would not, however, provide a significant boost to EU member states’ troubled programmes, according to a report by the data analytics company Airfinity.
The comparatively small number of doses that would be kept within the bloc would speed up the full vaccination of every adult in the EU by “just over a week”, the research suggests.

A UK gov minister said “If contracts get broken, and undertakings, that is a very damaging thing to happen for a trading bloc that prides itself on the rule of law,” he told Sky News. “It is counterproductive because the one thing we know about vaccine production and manufacture is that it is collaborative.

“They would undermine not only their own citizens’ chances of having a proper vaccine programme, but also many other countries around the world, with the reputational damage for the EU which they would find very hard to change over the short term.”

Von der Leyen said last week that the EU was considering “all options” and ready to introduce emergency controls on vaccine production and distribution

France and Germany have privately spoken in support of activating article 122 of the EU’s treaty, last used in the 1970s oil crisis, allowing the bloc to take emergency measures to control the distribution of essential goods.

(Needless to say the good Professor Macron would support such idiotic measures - potential of one week gained in exchange for setting Britain back two months - His election is his priority and the virus killing people a poor second - damaging the UK is a massive vote winner and he's all for it)

 
Britain’s Covid vaccine programme faces a two-month delay in the event of an EU export ban, derailing the government’s plans to reopen the economy this summer, an analysis for the Guardian reveals.

A UK gov minister said “If contracts get broken, and undertakings, that is a very damaging thing to happen for a trading bloc that prides itself on the rule of law,” he told Sky News. “It is counterproductive because the one thing we know about vaccine production and manufacture is that it is collaborative.

“They would undermine not only their own citizens’ chances of having a proper vaccine programme, but also many other countries around the world, with the reputational damage for the EU which they would find very hard to change over the short term.”

Von der Leyen said last week that the EU was considering “all options” and ready to introduce emergency controls on vaccine production and distribution

France and Germany have privately spoken in support of activating article 122 of the EU’s treaty, last used in the 1970s oil crisis, allowing the bloc to take emergency measures to control the distribution of essential goods.

(Needless to say the good Professor Macron would support such idiotic measures - potential of one week gained in exchange for setting Britain back two months - His election is his priority and the virus killing people a poor second - damaging the UK is a massive vote winner and he's all for it)

lol lol lol
 
Britain’s Covid vaccine programme faces a two-month delay in the event of an EU export ban, derailing the government’s plans to reopen the economy this summer, an analysis for the Guardian reveals.

A ban, due to be debated by leaders of the 27 EU member states on Thursday, would badly stall the UK vaccination effort, and would be likely to force the government to extend restrictions on people’s lives.

It would not, however, provide a significant boost to EU member states’ troubled programmes, according to a report by the data analytics company Airfinity.
The comparatively small number of doses that would be kept within the bloc would speed up the full vaccination of every adult in the EU by “just over a week”, the research suggests.

A UK gov minister said “If contracts get broken, and undertakings, that is a very damaging thing to happen for a trading bloc that prides itself on the rule of law,” he told Sky News. “It is counterproductive because the one thing we know about vaccine production and manufacture is that it is collaborative.

“They would undermine not only their own citizens’ chances of having a proper vaccine programme, but also many other countries around the world, with the reputational damage for the EU which they would find very hard to change over the short term.”

Von der Leyen said last week that the EU was considering “all options” and ready to introduce emergency controls on vaccine production and distribution

France and Germany have privately spoken in support of activating article 122 of the EU’s treaty, last used in the 1970s oil crisis, allowing the bloc to take emergency measures to control the distribution of essential goods.

(Needless to say the good Professor Macron would support such idiotic measures - potential of one week gained in exchange for setting Britain back two months - His election is his priority and the virus killing people a poor second - damaging the UK is a massive vote winner and he's all for it)

You've got one thing wrong, the effect of a damage on UK would do nothing to help his popularity which is as low as ever.
The average frenchie is not at all interested in what the UK is doing, they don't hate the brits, in fact they couldn't give a flying one about them.
They are very worried about government control and the free market capitalist reforms that Macron is pushing through as pay off for his financial backers.
 
One way to stop these daft protests - everytime one goes ahead the Tories should publically announce a 2 week extension to lockdown.

I bet mummy and daddy will be ensuring their kids aint out protesting if it threatens their chances of a pint in wethers in the summer.
 
Good news breaking over night with results from the US AZ trial in, the FDA will approve now, no evidence of clots in the trial and evidence of it being effective in the over 65 cohort, that will be massively reassuring overall.

Elsewise Sanofi, looked to have cracked their vaccine with some truly wonderful science, they are developing two vaccines one is based on insect incubation technology and the other is an RNA, phase 3 will rumble on and probably be the Autumn before it starts to be produced, but it will be developed with variants in mind, which will be great.
 
Good news breaking over night with results from the US AZ trial in, the FDA will approve now, no evidence of clots in the trial and evidence of it being effective in the over 65 cohort, that will be massively reassuring overall.

Elsewise Sanofi, looked to have cracked their vaccine with some truly wonderful science, they are developing two vaccines one is based on insect incubation technology and the other is an RNA, phase 3 will rumble on and probably be the Autumn before it starts to be produced, but it will be developed with variants in mind, which will be great.

There you go @davek , proper European Gnats Piss.....
 
The logic that doesn't hold up regarding the EU banning exports of the AZ vaccine to the UK is this:
The EU have exported vaccines to 31 countries around the world. However, the export ban will only apply to the UK why is this? Also, the EU don't own any vaccines. They don't develop any vaccines and they don't export any vaccines. The privately owned companies that manufacture the vaccines do and they do it under binding legal contracts that have been agreed and signed many month ago.
 
Yes - If there is a relatively high probability that you might die before that evidence arrives.
It's wrong to wait for evidence - you heard it here first folks.

...and there wasn't "a relatively high risk of death" from not taking it. What an exaggeration.
 
Confidence in Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine takes big hit in Europe - but Britons unaffected - poll

Spain, France, Germany and Italy have all reported lower confidence in the safety of the vaccine following reports of rare blood clots and the temporary suspension of the jab's rollout in some countries, according to YouGov.

In a poll of about 8,000 people in seven European countries, some 55% of Germans said the vaccine was unsafe while less than a third thought it was safe.

French respondents also viewed the jab negatively, with some 61% of those surveyed saying they thought it was unsafe.

In Italy and Spain, most people had previously felt the vacine was safe - at 54% and 59% respectively - but those rates have fallen to 36% and 38% in the latest poll done between 12 and 18 March.

Yet in Britain, 77% of people still say the vaccine is safe, on a par with Pfizer's jab at 79%.

Although at least 13 European countries temporarily stopped administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot over concerns, the EU's medicines regulator has since said it is safe.

A large-scale study in the US has also determined the jab is both safe and effective.


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Macron et al should genuinely face trial for this.
 
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