Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Neiler]

@Neiler we’ve discussed this a lot, good to finally have data


A study posted Friday, led by Oxford University, found that delaying the second dose up to 10 weeks boosted antibodies and "helper" T cells that support the immune system higher than giving it at three weeks, as recommended by Pfizer.
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Dr. Lance Turtle, senior clinical lecturer in infectious diseases at University of Liverpool, was also involved in the study. He said that eight weeks between doses is a "reasonable compromise" but added that there are exceptions. People who are immunosuppressed, such as those being treated for cancer, should get second doses of Pfizer's shot as soon as possible, he said.

Very interesting mate, thanks for posting, the dynamics behind the dosing strategy and the business objectives of Pharma are equally interesting.

I may be over suspicious but I’m surprised more hasn’t been made of mixing vaccines, it’s emerging as the overall best option. A few conspiracy thermos have crossed my mind!

 

[toffee82]

The rising cases and hospitalizations seem to have at least persuaded a few to get vaccinated
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Anti vaxers are a dying breed then.

 

[HumbleWedbetters]

Im 4 days in after getting symptoms and testing positive. Was double jabbed a month ago.

Been sensible throughout pandemic. Wife is a nurse and is exposed to it quite regularly, with mask wearing she never caught it and was doing lots of lateral flow tests.

My eldest son went to primary school and caught it from one child who tested positive. All bar a couple of kids in the class caught it. Loads of parents have got poorly. My son was poorly for a couple of days and thankfully picked up. I got hit on Monday and Wednesday was the worse day, high temps, sweating buckets, booming headache, tickly cough. Wife is one day behind me and still feels rubbish.

I'm glad we are vaxxed, my feeling is this wave is going to hit alot of people and hopefully many won't need hospital after getting vaccine.

It's very real. Hopefully we come through the end of this wiser, better equipped with transparency and let's get the so called plandemic theorists on TV to debate with scientists to thrash out all the supposed theories.

 

[HumbleWedbetters]

Im 4 days in after getting symptoms and testing positive. Was double jabbed a month ago.

Been sensible throughout pandemic. Wife is a nurse and is exposed to it quite regularly, with mask wearing she never caught it and was doing lots of lateral flow tests.

My eldest son went to primary school and caught it from one child who tested positive. All bar a couple of kids in the class caught it. Loads of parents have got poorly. My son was poorly for a couple of days and thankfully picked up. I got hit on Monday and Wednesday was the worse day, high temps, sweating buckets, booming headache, tickly cough. Wife is one day behind me and still feels rubbish.

I'm glad we are vaxxed, my feeling is this wave is going to hit alot of people and hopefully many won't need hospital after getting vaccine.

It's very real. Hopefully we come through the end of this wiser, better equipped with transparency and let's get the so called plandemic theorists on TV to debate with scientists to thrash out all the supposed reasons that this isn't real. I've always been a believer in vitamin D, zinc and magnesium but novel viruses require the best of the brilliant minds in the world to try and overcome them.

 

[Stoic Ape]

It's mad. The loss of taste and smell thing is also really, really weird - but I haven't had that.

Has there ever been a coronavirus which did that?

Makes you wonder doesn't it... and some delta symptoms are pretty much an entirely different illness altogether.

So long as you feel on the mend mate, I know people get ill all the time and nobody thinks anything of it but I genuinely want the best for anyone that catches this thing.. The constant media attention about it has given me a whole new perspective on bugs/virus/sickness.. I used to think you get ill, you get better. Now I feel like I'm trapped between a rock and a hard place of seeing friends and family or getting seriously ill and possibly dying! Crazy what this past 2? Years has done to me and many others I presume.

 

[HumbleWedbetters]

I had my 2nd 5 weeks after my first but glad really was on the lash in Manchester this afternoon and place was heaving with few masks in sight.

If you have any kind of social life you'll likely catch this thing sooner rather than later the way its going would rather be double jabbed than not.

I think it's how it's being planned to be done.

I started with symptoms early this week. Having been double jabbed I thought I would just brush it off ....... It's got some bite on it, I wouldn't have liked to catch it without the vaccine. It messes with your ability to sleep and hits you in waves where you feel awful but then feel ok.

Very odd.

 

[Leylo]

My son and daughter went out separately the weekend of the euro final, well both got covid ,my son lives with me and my wife boom we had to isolate we both had 2 jabs ,I've lost at least a weeks wage being self employed. My son was fine mild cough. My daughter who doesn't live with us was very ill and she's only in her twenties. Please please will you young ones get the vaccine it's not a joke ffs ,my daughter said she's gonna get it soon as because never wants to feel like that again. Freedom! Hasn't felt like that for us this week ffs

 

[LinekersLegs]

Seems many posters on the forum, with @HumbleWedbetters and @Leylo the latest, and their families have been exposed recently - wishing all the best x

 

[Nymzee]

What the heck variant are we even on now anyway? Still the Indian one? A few of my mates and colleagues have tested positive really and all after having their first jab. Not suggesting that’s a reason btw just a sense of irony to dodge this thing all the way until the jab.

Maybe people are becoming a little too relaxed after having a jab though thinking it makes you immune.

 

[mill]

Seems many posters on the forum, with @HumbleWedbetters and @Leylo the latest, and their families have been exposed recently - wishing all the best x

Anecdotally, this does seem much more prevalent than before. Especially given we are still in the height of summer.

 

[HumbleWedbetters]

What the heck variant are we even on now anyway? Still the Indian one? A few of my mates and colleagues have tested positive really and all after having their first jab. Not suggesting that’s a reason btw just a sense of irony to dodge this thing all the way until the jab.

Maybe people are becoming a little too relaxed after having a jab though thinking it makes you immune.

Anecdotally, this does seem much more prevalent than before. Especially given we are still in the height of summer.

Delta variant is far more transmittable.

The summer doesn't kill the virus, we've seen people in India and Brazil dying in their thousands, it's tropical there.

The increase in vaccinations has led to relaxed attitudes. A vaccines job is to program your body to react to the virus and recover far better than you would without it

Touch wood I'm on day 5 of symptoms now and I feel ok.

People really need to be careful, especially if they've not been jabbed. If they choose not to - that's their choice, but from my experience I would not have wanted to catch this without the vaccine. I'm normally resilient to colds and stuff, I take loads of vitamins, D, C, K, zinc, magnesium, garlic and I eat well when poorly.

The temperature I got showed that my body wasn't happy with the infection.

 

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[Paris]

Are the Pyramids in Egypt a UNESCO world heritage site? If so, what do they have to say about all the fast food restaurants that blight the place?

 

[degsy]

Somebody is winding these WH 'kers up to cause trouble

 

[BlueToff]

So long as you feel on the mend mate, I know people get ill all the time and nobody thinks anything of it but I genuinely want the best for anyone that catches this thing.. The constant media attention about it has given me a whole new perspective on bugs/virus/sickness.. I used to think you get ill, you get better. Now I feel like I'm trapped between a rock and a hard place of seeing friends and family or getting seriously ill and possibly dying! Crazy what this past 2? Years has done to me and many others I presume.

It's mad mate, I'm hardly ever ill but this has definitely got me. Now, I've never been worried about going to hospital or anything but yeah, it's been rough in spells.

Today's symptom is just pure fatigue. I slept for 11 hours last night, woke up for work this morning and lasted an hour before feeling nauseous and had to have another two hours solid sleep. Just completely out of it, and I'm not a good sleeper.

I'm going to try and go again at 2 for work and get a few hours in but all I want to do is lay down and sleep. Yet no other symptoms. Bit of a sniffle but nothing in my throat, no cough, no tight chest. Just hoping this means I'm finally through the worst of it but this fatigue is mad.