Tested negative today for first time in 9 days WHOOO HOOOOO !!!!!
Might open my New Year’s Day champagne I didn’t manage last week ?
Might open my New Year’s Day champagne I didn’t manage last week ?
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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tsubaki
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Congratulations!
efcfanwirral
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The party do but there's definitely a lot of leaks coming out clearly designed to get rid of him. If the next person is more risk averse and is more behind restrictions we could start to take a very different path like other countries.
grandjoeblue
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I doubt any replacement would be significantly different in approach as their core base do not support additional measures. He will still be PM until 2024 in my opinion, he has managed to maintain his position throughout all of the recent problems.
tbh, the Federal Govt ditched that pretty early on ( maybe not early enough tbf) but the Qld & Vic Labour Govts ran and ran with it for kudos in the state election in which the Qld Premier romped home by a distance...and for national political points scoring Vs the Liberal (tory-lite) Fedral Govt.
Cool_Blue
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Apart from the lies you mean......
Djokovic will have further questions to answer about his Australian travel declaration, which all passengers have to complete three to seven days before arrival. It states he did not travel in the 14 days before his flight to Australia, but he moved between Serbian capital Belgrade and Spain in that time.
The binman chronicles
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He's the Prince Andrew of Tennis, a danger.
Couldn't even help himself after he was released with his social media post. He could have kept away from everything and be contrite but made it sound like he was the wronged party and after thought he'd give everyone the pleasure of staying. By putting a picture up of him close to three of his mates, something Australians haven't been able to do for nearly 2 years probably will wind people up too.
That along with his post just before entry just makes it seem he is above rules and regulations, by bringing it to the fore you are courting the headlines. It's also a big two fingers up at the Australian government.
He's always been a massive bellend, but he is really stepping up a gear to leave no trace of doubt about it
TN Toffee
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He’s painted himself into a corner with his exemption claim. Either he lied about ever having COVID in mid-December, or he did actually have it and still went to an event with a bunch of kids with no regard for their health. No way he can spin it to come out looking good.
Can you expand a bit on that mate, not sure I follow your reasoning,When you look at this article and then compare it with the official announcement from the UK government, I do think it’s completely fair for people to be now questioning the vaccination plans that some countries seem to be adopting in line with the relationship the governments have with “Big Pharma”
Pfizer CEO announces Omicron vaccine to be ready in March
Company is ‘already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk,’ top boss sayswww.independent.co.uk
Boosters continue to provide high levels of protection against severe disease from Omicron in older adults
Latest data from UKHSA shows booster doses are continuing to provide high levels of protection against severe disease from the Omicron variant among older adults.www.gov.uk
Personally think it sensible for the vaccine makers to be making a Omicron specific vaccine even if currently the vaccines that were developed for the original strain are still effective when used as 3 doses, especially versus severe disease.
The antigenic drift of Omicron is pretty large compared to previous variants as you can see below.
Surely not unreasonable to expect that, given its high transmission advantage, that any future variants will be based on it rather than original/alpha/beta/delta etc.
So I’d see an Omicron specific vaccine as the first stab at something that might get rolled out in the autumn 22, especially to the clinically vulnerable, in case a new variant based on it is circulating then. It is the same with the flu vaccines, the lead time involved in manufacturing the cocktail to be used for that years rollout needs to be guessed at several months in advance.
Selecting Viruses for the Seasonal Flu Vaccine
Vaccine composition is reviewed each year and updated as needed based on which influenza viruses are making people sick.
www.cdc.gov
Omicron represents a new kind of epidemic – we must keep up | Emma Thomson
Our research shows how the new variant infects and affects us, says professor in infectious diseases Emma Thomson
We found that while previous variants enter human cells by fusing with the cell membrane, which may cause severe disease by allowing cell-to-cell transmission of the virus, Omicron is instead enveloped by the cell membrane inside a capsule which is then injected inside the cell. It has to escape from this capsule with the help of different proteins in the cell called cathepsins before it can divide and then infect other cells.
These findings have now been confirmed by researchers from Imperial College London, who also went on to show that Omicron may preferentially infect cells in the nose and is less likely to infect lung cells. Further research will help us understand if we should upgrade our measures to prevent respiratory transmission of the virus as a result.
The best way to optimise our immunity against this new variant would most likely be vaccines aimed at Omicron (and other variants that have not yet evolved). These would need to be tested in clinical trials and may be reserved for those most at risk given the expense and speed required to roll them out. Importantly, the finding that three doses of vaccine is far superior to two doses has bought us time.
The emergence of new variants, which will probably continue, means that Covid requires us to be nimble in our research and response to the virus – whatever form it takes in future.
- Emma Thomson is a professor in infectious diseases at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
Bluerover
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This thing is not going away anytime soon. I am seriously concerned that it has already killed over 5m people and there are idiots, including so called political leaders who think it is ok to ignore all restrictions.
There will be more variations of this that will not be stopped by current vaccinations. No I am not a sensationalist but a realist. If people cannot stop acting the Muppet after so many have died then God help us.
There will be more variations of this that will not be stopped by current vaccinations. No I am not a sensationalist but a realist. If people cannot stop acting the Muppet after so many have died then God help us.
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