COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Invisible Man's Bandage said:
There has been a huge increase in people eligible to receive the flu jab this winter and record numbers have had it. This didn't involve any special measures and it was delivered by the normal routes...hospitals, health centres and pharmacies. The vaccine jab is just as simple to administer so with the large scale centres being set up all around the country we should be able to do huge numbers very rapidly. It is far simpler than testing people too.
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I concur. I had my first ever flu jab yesterday. Took 2 weeks to get an appointment date but was in and out of the GP surgery in a couple of minutes. Assume the Covid vaccine will be just as easy to administer. As long as they all have the supplies, it ought to run as smoothly I’d imagine.
 
Nebuchadnezzar said:
The list of things that can make us infertile or at least make us struggle with fertility is already longer than Arsene Wenger's coat, and that's assuming the list font size is the same size as those hobbyists use to write on rice grains with a feather.
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Don't think infertility is an issue with the majority of people in about the top 7 priorities on the list, I mean 50''s+ with underlying health conditions wouldn't be too arsed. All the conspiracy dick heads will be out in numbers, fuck em, I'd definitely get the vaccine passport going and leave those lot to a miserable life, could be banned from working in certain environments as well.
 
paulchapo said:
See I wonder how people are selected. If it's age then an 89 year old should be vaccinated first. I would have thought they'd have been given some indication but they've heard nothing. I doubt there are thousands made it over eighty in with but I might be wrong.
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Is her GP surgery participating?
Some have opted out.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Monday is a decent turnaround mate, given that it’s Wednesday and the vaccine has to be delivered and extra workforce capacity deployed above that for dishing out the Pfizer and flu vaccines. People also have to be contacted to attend to receive the vaccine.
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Would have thought all this would have been in place in advance, its clear the manufacturing was.
 
artfuldodger said:
BBC
Both the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.
Initially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.
But when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.
Everyone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.


So does this mean the Pfizer goes to 12 weeks from now for dose 2?
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Got a link to that? Trying to find it.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
I wasn’t saying it prevents Covid.

just saying running every day from my personal experience has prevented me from getting a cold, headache or anything really, may just be a coincidence but before I took up running I was always getting ill all the time
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I drink a double JD every day and have not had flu since 1970 and never get colds.
Before I took up drinking I was always getting ill at the time.
 
marcus said:
Yes. Pubs reopening. Life back to normal. That sort of shit that is normal to some. But not to miserable old fuckers who like to sit at home and moan
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Very true, there's some old people who's only social interaction is going to their local to meet up with their friends for a drink. I've known many over the years who have formed lasting lifetime friendships with people they have met in the boozer. The older ones who go to the pub do so to make it part of life's enjoyment. Can't understate the role the pub plays for a lot of people, many who are definitely not, as you say "miserable old fuckers".
 
oddfellows said:
Would have thought all this would have been in place in advance, its clear the manufacturing was.
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You have to have independent contractors (GPs) to be open on New Year’s Day to speed up the process (by a day) because the vaccine is being distributed today and tomorrow. That’s very difficult to arrange in advance when it wasn’t clear exactly when the MHRA would clear the Oxford / AZ vaccine.
 
mosssideblue said:
but hardly a priority was my point
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It’s not a priority, but it matters to people. I don’t play amateur rugby or football, but I hated seeing pitches empty on a Sunday morning during lockdown. I can count on one hand the number of pubs I go in during an average year, but it saddens me to see them closed. I want to see life restarting and some things are symbolic. I think to the British, the pub is a symbol of normality.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
I wasn’t saying it prevents Covid.

just saying running every day from my personal experience has prevented me from getting a cold, headache or anything really, may just be a coincidence but before I took up running I was always getting ill all the time
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Cardiovascular fitness as well as eating the right foods to give you the right vitamins and minerals for lung health (vitamin D, potassium, zinc), means that any cough cold flu or other virus you get, you are far less likely to suffer badly from it.

When the lining of your alveoli is stronger and the blood vessels around them function better because they aren’t full of fatty deposits through poor diet and obesity meaning the exchange of O2 and CO2 is more effeicient, the less severe you lung illnesses are likely to be.

Doesn’t mean you won’t get ill, doesn’t mean one year a particular strong variant of a virus won’t strike you down badly, but if the entire nation was fitter and healthier there would have been far fewer hospitalisation and far fewer deaths than there have been.

Covid should be a wake up call to the nation that we need to get ourselves MUCH healthier.
 
File this with Russia under reporting death total for least shocking news of the week..

www.bbc.co.uk

China Covid-19: Nearly 500,000 in Wuhan may have had virus, says study

The study by Chinese officials suggests there were more positive cases in Wuhan than official figures suggest.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

‘Wuhan's population is estimated at 11 million, which suggests that almost 500,000 people may have had the virus.
If true, that is almost 10 times higher than Wuhan's officially recorded number of 50,354 cases.’
 
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