Off Topic Coronavirus

What's a yaught
Is it a new apple product

 

It’s the same as a yacht.....except it’s spelt by an idiot

 

I just don't think you are watching enough Americas cup

 

Is that similar to a yot then?

 

Professor Andrew Hayward, an infectious diseases specialist at UCL, says that it is ‘unlikely’ that COVID deaths will reach six figures (that’s 100,000 if we are avoiding opaque language) next winter. However, we will see ‘tens of thousands’ of deaths, hopefully in the ‘low tens of thousands’.

Both Whitty and Vallance have said there will be an ‘inevitable’ further wave next winter, with associated surge in deaths. Wisely, after their 20,000 deaths total prediction, they aren’t attaching numbers to this certainty.

Meanwhile, to save the day, Public Health England, which the politicians are setting up to be the fall guy for all pandemic related failures, is being replaced with the National Institute for Health Protection, which will include test and trace. Reassuringly this ‘new’ organisation will be led by someone we know to be competent, a brilliant communicator, and with no tainted connections to past failures. Yes it’s Jenny Harries. The one who can’t handle a press conference and who this time last year said that large scale testing and tracing ‘wasn’t appropriate’ for the U.K.

 

Well that's me all vaccinated,now then Boris get the pub open & prepare my seat in SAR

 

The sad thing is, this will work.....

Downing Street sparks angry backlash with ‘shameless’ vaccine video (msn.com)

 

Good to know we have someone at the top who is fully vested in the ‘new’ direction then Sb.

 

Hopefully there's not much to worry about, but interesting development nontheless....

Oxford-AstraZeneca: Denmark suspends vaccine 'as a precaution'

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Denmark has temporarily halted use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution, after reports of a small number of blood clots and one death.

The Danish health authority said it was too early to say whether there was a link to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Austria earlier stopped using a batch of the drug, prompting the EU medicines agency to say there was no indication the vaccine caused blood clots.

The company says its safety has been studied extensively in clinical trials.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56357760

 

22 recorded / cases of thromboembolic events in the 3 million people vaccinated with the AZ version in the EEA to date.

No obvious link, the % is too small for me to calculate, those vaccinated to date are likely to be more elderly/fragile and perhaps prone to clots...........doesn’t sound bad to me, even if they find that there is a link if they can identify what characteristics at risk people have and then avoid using the vaccine in this group, it’s more than acceptable.

Unless you get a serious/fatal clot.

 

Had my AstraZenica jab Thursday, felt like **** in the evening and this morning, feeling great now

 

Had the same reaction too Wherever. Shivers and aches. Started about 10hrs after the jab, slept through the night with a light fever and was a bit low, but working fine, the next day. All good. Small price to pay. My partner was the same, although she was a bit more tired the next day than I was.
Feels good to have had that first jab though, I’m glad to say.

 

Seems as though it's almost exclusively the Oxford jab being given now, unless I'm misreading the limited information I see.
Also seems to be the Oxford jab that gives more of a reaction to the injection.
Mrs Rangercol has hers today and mine's next Friday.

 

All the people in the first wave of vaccinations, December/early January, got the Pfizer jab and are getting the same for their booster. I think there are some centres which focus on one or other of the vaccines, we have bought 40 million doses of the Pfizer one, so there is still a lot to use.

Should be a massive rise in vaccination numbers from now on, supply issues are sorted apparently and big numbers of second vaccines are needed per day (probably about 250k daily next week, peaking at well over 500k) as well as the continued surge for first vaccinations. Still looking good on overall numbers, and on safety/efficacy of all types of vaccine. We are also told that ‘tweaked’ versions will be fast tracked for use against new variants. We don’t seem to be hearing so much about these this week. The Brazil one sounds truly scary. Apparently 60% of the people who got it in Manaus had already had the earlier version of the virus, antibodies didn’t help them at all.

 

Mrs Rangercol has just had her jab.
Very efficient, with a constant stream of people arriving at the local community hospital.
She had the Oxford vaccine.
The only surprise was that, as soon as the needle was withdrawn, she was sent on her way.
No 10 to 15 minutes' wait in case of a bad reaction, which we were expecting to be the case.

 

Did you take her? When I went and got the Oxford jab I had to wait 15 minutes (self monitored) because I was driving, those who said they had someone waiting to take them home were allowed to go straight away.

 

I took her, but she wasn't asked. They did ask if she'd had a reaction to jabs before, which she hasn't.
A bit strange.
Anyway, it's been nearly an hour and she's ok.

 

Just to add, people locally here seem to think it's after the pfizer jab that people are asked to wait for a little while before leaving.

 

Seems lockdown is over...