Do the people doing the tests at testing centres have to go through the same strict process as what those who are administering the vaccine do?
We clearly have a brilliant testing capacity now but I'm amazed that an average of 400,000 a day are requiring a test.
No, Virgin have a flight to Johannesburg this evening from Heathrow.Anyone know if we have actually banned flights from South Africa yet? And insist on isolation for anyone who has been there in recent weeks?
Even if it is still debateable how much it might compromise a vaccine or if the vaccine can be modified afterwards anyway it would be idiotic not to do everything possible to keep it out given that we have one of our own on a spree everywhere already.
Not that I do not trust our government to do sensible things like that which any sane nation would do. Just checking.
Do you mean are the checking if people actually have symptoms?Do the people doing the tests at testing centres have to go through the same strict process as what those who are administering the vaccine do?
We clearly have a brilliant testing capacity now but I'm amazed that an average of 400,000 a day are requiring a test.
Do the people doing the tests at testing centres have to go through the same strict process as what those who are administering the vaccine do?
We clearly have a brilliant testing capacity now but I'm amazed that an average of 400,000 a day are requiring a test.
No, Virgin have a flight to Johannesburg this evening from Heathrow.
I think we should be wary of flights from other parts of Africa too, because many places there do hardly any tests, and almost certainly won't have the potential to test for different variants, these countries will have much more contact with SA than we do.
Is it because you are inside?I worked at the outdoor mobile testing sites for 4 months and not once were any of the staff tested.
I now work on the indoor "rapid" sites and all staff are tested before every shift. If negative they send you home for 10 days.
No idea why it's so different between.the two "types" of site and not one colleague/manager knows why either.
We will never know until the vaccine is in circulation with enough people, the current efficacy is still unknown by the way given they've only been tested on perhaps 0.001% of the population at clinical trials. The next few months will be key but I wouldn't be surprised if some tweaks are made to boost efficacy as more is learnt about the immune reaction.I wonder as well, if the strain does turn out to weaken the impact of vaccines, that this perhaps won't be so bad news for Pfizer and Moderna but potentially terrible news for AZ as it has a lower efficacy to begin with? Ie could a vaccine which is 95% efficacy become 70% against this new strain however one which is 63% becomes only 38%...for example?
I mean more the admin that is required to qualify to administer the vaccine.Do you mean are the checking if people actually have symptoms?
What do you mean?
23% of over 80s - half of the total
Some details of GPs etc (about 1000 in all, I think - 570 GPs, 108 hospitals, some others)
The numbers are really important for people can see progress.
Further update on Thursday, and then daily from Monday.
Johnson said that the NHS had committed to doing the 13 million by mid-Feb (I think)
Ahh I see... I think both come in a sort of pack.I mean more the admin that is required to qualify to administer the vaccine.
Nice to read that, thanks for sharing Len.Putting aside the shenanigans of the last 24 hours we now have to get the vaccine rolled out ASAP.
I read this morning we are way ahead of other European countries in doing this.
There are some risks in going first but they are definitely worth taking and as a critic so far of the Government's handling of the pandemic it is only right that they should be given credit for getting the vaccination show on the road.