Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
It just seems endless this now doesn’t it. Mate of mine diagnosed positive yesterday and feels very rough and he has had both jabs and in his 50’s.
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Thank his lucky stars he’s had the jab then, or else he might’ve been huffing on NHS gas or pushing up the daisies.

Vaccines aren’t an invincibility cloak. They’re like body armour. Getting shot wearing a bulletproof vest might still hurt like a motherfucker if you’re unlucky, but it’ll save your life.
 
Elbow beards said:
The evidence agrees with me. Thanks
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This from Israel Health Ministry, which is real world data, from May onwards, in a heavily vaccinated population.

Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.
 
johnnymarrsbarres said:
Thank his lucky stars he’s had the jab then, or else he might’ve been huffing on NHS gas or pushing up the daisies.

Vaccines aren’t an invincibility cloak. They’re like body armour. Getting shot wearing a bulletproof vest might still hurt like a motherfucker if you’re unlucky, but it’ll save your life.
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Yeah. I’m so glad my lad had one about a month ago as no doubt this helped him last week when it was touch and go if he would need to go to A and E.
 
BlueAnorak said:
Indonesia and places with high infection rates and low vaccination rates are a variant factory - not the UK.
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Yes, but places with high level infection rates and not high enough vaccination rates provide selection pressure for escape mutations.

Controlling infection rates still makes a lot of sense to be quicker at vaccinating than virus mutation.
 
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