Coronavirus (2021) thread

[worsleyweb]

I have bought one of the kids a mobile bar in a an old Citroen H van - just applied for licenses to serve in one of the local parks over Easter weekend. Hoping to make hey on the outdoor drinking this summer.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I know in my local area the plan is to open up another large hall for groups 5-9, slightly out of town but younger people can easily get to it. As far as I know the current vaccine centres will stay open presumable giving second doses to 1-4
I presume when Pfizer gets back on line and think the Moderna are due in a month or so, as long as they have the people to vaccinate and the vaccines there is no reason they can’t keep up the pace of first doses while doing the second doses for the first groups.

We have the people to give the jabs, it’s supply that is the limiting rate factor. There are pharmacies that could be involved in the rolled out so there is untapped capacity.

We’ve done great so far and fingers crossed the number of jabs will increase with the 2nd doses. There is a reason that Moderna said Spring for starting U.K. deliveries and that is to give themselves flexibility between March and May.

 

[splinter]

Hope so

I think it's OK whilst we're in lockdown but in future this is where the risk is and we should therefore be putting a lot of resources into isolating and tracing these cases. I would like to know what the fraction is nationwide. We do sampling. We should be able to get a good idea.

Hope so it seems we make one step forward and then two steps back..just gets ya down

 

[Ban-jani]

I have bought one of the kids a mobile bar in a an old Citroen H van - just applied for licenses to serve in one of the local parks over Easter weekend. Hoping to make hey on the outdoor drinking this summer.

Let me know where mate and I’ll come and buy a pint off you

 

[blueparrot]

Hope so

Hope so it seems we make one step forward and then two steps back..just gets ya down

Think now it's more 2 forward 1 back. There will be set backs but we are going forwards.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"Challenge trials" passed ethics clearance

Up to 90 volunteers in UK to take part in pioneering Covid infection trial

Human challenge trial will monitor healthy 18- to 30-year-olds given virus to aid vaccine and therapy research

www.theguardian.com

As previously reported first step is to establish what dose of COVID is necessary to cause disease.

I think this is potentially very significant. You could imagine that subsequent trials might be a very good way to rapidly assess vaccine efficacy against variants, to speed delivery of modified vaccines, as you can directly measure effectiveness rather than wait for people to become infected in the community, so a trial maybe only needs 20 subjects rather than 20,000 to reach significance, and can be run very quickly.

 

[Healdplace]

The not receiving a vaccine within 28 days of a positive Covid test isn't advice but policy for everyone by the way. It's one of the questions I was asked when I had my first shot on Monday.

My brother had his vaccination already booked stopped because of it a couple of weeks back. So it is definitely not just advice. They rebooked it for the 29th day. They send appointments to your GP so they can tell them things like that and allergies on your records.

My brother had his first one cancelled as it was Pfizer and he had an allergy that was counter indicated to this and he had to have the AZ jab and then the above one cancelled because he had to wait for the 28 days after last positive test. But he still got the third one booked on day 29 and the whole process from first offer to jab via three different bookings only took about 5 days.

They do seem very efficient. NHS experience of the annual flu jab drive will have us in a very good place compared to much of the world where this will be very much more complicated without national health care or experience of doing that in a coordinated way with millions every autumn.

Considering it is not mandatory and the idiots trying to put people off on social media the take up has been phenomenal too. I suspect one league table we might end up leading or close to the top at least.

And in reality quite possibly the only one that really matters.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[Healdplace]

Boris, of course, deserves some praise for getting the vaccine drive right but I really hope that the woman who ran the procurement of vaccines programme last Spring and put us in this great position gets the recognition she deserves.

Without her foresight we would be scrabbling around like half the planet crawling towards herd immunity not racing there.

For all the errors of the past year this might be the one that saves Britain and she deserves the credit for how she quickly and effectively ordered what she did when it was all guesswork what if anything was going to work. She covered all the bases that left us in the best possible place.

 

[blueparrot]

Boris, of course, deserves some praise for getting the vaccine drive right but I really hope that the woman who ran the procurement of vaccines programme last Spring and put us in this great position gets the recognition she deserves.

Without her foresight we would be scrabbling around like half the planet crawling towards herd immunity not racing there.

For all the errors of the past year this might be the one that saves Britain and she deserves the credit for how she quickly and effectively ordered what she did when it was all guesswork what if anything was going to work. She covered all the bases that left us in the best possible place.

Who is she ?