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ganganvince said:
It's down to individual surgeries who get given supplies to vaccinate their patients if they have a larger supply than demand rather than waste it they will go outside the current cohort, I believe they have been told not to do this now although am aware that the site on the car park at Morrisons in Winsford will still grab a few shoppers if they have opened a vial at the end of shift which can leave a few doses. If you have a pharmacy based center like that near you may be worth lingering half hour before they close.
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Life Centre on Washway Road mate, see people milling around later in the day in the hope of getting a spare jab.
 
In answer to earlier questions about my 'not at weekend' reply I meant the rise in cases is not caused by schools at weekend which was the suggestion - regardless of whether some testing is done over the weekend - because it is massively less than done in the week. Or has been I should add.


Testing numbers - up to now anyway - this past weekend may be different - as we never find out what happens over the weekend in England testing until Monday evening - have been running at sub 1 million or just over versus up to 1.6 million during the week driven by the school testing.

If that has changed this weekend we will know in a few hours.
 
Had mine yesterday morning was bouncing till around 11pm, my arm was swollen & headache from hell.

Woke up this morning feeling like shit, not to bad now just feeling sickly.

My arm feels like someone has given me a propper good dead arm..
 
When I was there a couple had driven down from Carlile to Ulverston just afetr Lakes district only to realise they had the wrong day, they were told to eiter go home ar wait till end of play as they just cant give them the vaccine there on then, they were mad as hell unbalievable.

"Do you know how far we have driven" I was pissing myself thinking you thick pair of barstewards ;)
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Life Centre on Washway Road mate, see people milling around later in the day in the hope of getting a spare jab.
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Don't know about other areas but doesn't work around here, heard of a few going down to our centre asking and being turned away, the same nights people have been phoned to go and get a leftover dose, my wife got phoned and saw people she knew tring for one and being turned away.
 
Wales have announced that today is the last daily press conference. There will only be ones in future on dates when things are being reviewed every week or two.

They are now focusing on working hard to get the NHS back onto a more normal coverage as progress on Covid has been so good.

Though the use of remote consultation will be expanded as a way to help improve care for those who do need to be in hospital for assessment from what is now a very big backlog.

I guess you can see that as a big step back to normality in its own right.

Scotland stopped doing regular daily briefings two weeks ago. I assumed because of the ongoing internal issues there. But they do not seem to be coming back this week either.
 
Wales vaccination update:

1, 273, 186 first doses given - 14, 417 today - was 26, 939 yesterday & 9433 last week

346, 058 second doses given - 7099 today - was 9429 yesterday & 6857 last week

Over 50% of Wales people over 18 have now had at least one vaccination.
 
Zoe App shows another small rise in predicted cases today - at 4842 - that is about 500 up over the weekend. Where it has been running about 1000 below the actual cases reported that evening.

However. the numbers predicted for those who have Covid from self reports to the App across the UK right now fell slightly again - to 74, 434 - down by by 408 in the day. It was over 100,000 just a couple of weeks ago.

Bear in mind that is from a UK population of 67 million. Which is about 0.11% of the population. Or 1 in 900 estimated to have Covid right now.
 
The US test results on Astra Zeneca today are really stunning and ought to shut a few critics up.

100% effectivity in keeping those taking it from serious illness needing hospitalisation.

That was always the goal. Not stopping you getting it entirely. Which so many people never seem to have understood.

The reason nobody has created a vaccine for the common cold is that it is not far off 100% effective in this measure on its own without a vaccine. Even if nearly everyone catches one every year or so.

If it was even a fraction as capable of making people seriously ill we would have probably found one by now.

Not catching covid is not really what matters. Hence why case number now are much less important than they were and hospital numbers and icu ventilator numbers are what shows where we are. Along, of course, with deaths.
 
The BBC reported in the story that there is no known case of a person dying from Covid from a few weeks after having been fully vaccinated. I think they inferred in the world.

That seems a pretty unlikely statistic to me but in general terms even if it is just 'almost' true that would be amazing.
 
Healdplace said:
The BBC reported in the story that there is no known case of a person dying from Covid from a few weeks after having been fully vaccinated. I think they inferred in the world.

That seems a pretty unlikely statistic to me but in general terms even if it is just 'almost' true that would be amazing.
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In many ways that seems like the post i have been hoping to read for a year now. Absolutely fantastic if that bears out to be true.
 
ganganvince said:
It's down to individual surgeries who get given supplies to vaccinate their patients if they have a larger supply than demand rather than waste it they will go outside the current cohort, I believe they have been told not to do this now although am aware that the site on the car park at Morrisons in Winsford will still grab a few shoppers if they have opened a vial at the end of shift which can leave a few doses. If you have a pharmacy based center like that near you may be worth lingering half hour before they close.
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I didn't think people were allowed to do this?
 
so Boris expects the current wave on mainland Europe to come to the UK; "on the continent right now you can see, sadly, there is a third wave under way, and ...previous experience has taught us that that when a wave hits our friends, it I’m afraid washes up on our shores as well. And I expect that we will feel those effects in due course."

hmm. i'd rather got the impression that the wave in mainland europe was lagging behind our kent variant-driven wave of Dec/Jan? he is saying we are to expect another wave? as that would mean goodbye to roadmap as we know it.
 
Healdplace said:
The BBC reported in the story that there is no known case of a person dying from Covid from a few weeks after having been fully vaccinated. I think they inferred in the world.

That seems a pretty unlikely statistic to me but in general terms even if it is just 'almost' true that would be amazing.
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That's fantastic but @cleavers said on here a couple of weeks ago that he knew of someone who died of Covid some time after they had their second jab. Now I'm not sure how many weeks after their second vaccination it was - it could be that they were unlucky enough to catch it before full efficacy kicked in?
 
shemnel said:
so Boris expects the current wave on mainland Europe to come to the UK; "on the continent right now you can see, sadly, there is a third wave under way, and ...previous experience has taught us that that when a wave hits our friends, it I’m afraid washes up on our shores as well. And I expect that we will feel those effects in due course."

hmm. i'd rather got the impression that the wave in mainland europe was lagging behind our kent variant-driven wave of Dec/Jan? he is saying we are to expect another wave? as that would mean goodbye to roadmap as we know it.
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Yeh that's what I think too, seen it mentioned before but don't really understand the thinking behind it. There should be no third wave with the restriction map we have in place plus the vaccines.

Europe on the other hand are going to struggle for a while longer, which made the whole pausing the AZ vaccine even more ridiculous IMO.
 
shemnel said:
so Boris expects the current wave on mainland Europe to come to the UK; "on the continent right now you can see, sadly, there is a third wave under way, and ...previous experience has taught us that that when a wave hits our friends, it I’m afraid washes up on our shores as well. And I expect that we will feel those effects in due course."

hmm. i'd rather got the impression that the wave in mainland europe was lagging behind our kent variant-driven wave of Dec/Jan? he is saying we are to expect another wave? as that would mean goodbye to roadmap as we know it.
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It might just be a bit of politics at play given the EUs recent threats. He maybe saying it like "we're still going to be effected by this and that's why we still need our vaccines". This is true, but you'd think we'll be better off numbers wise due to the fact we've largely protected the most vulnerable.
 
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