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M18CTID said:
Spot on. I alluded to this the other week but didn’t articulate it quite as well as you have. I’d ask some of these people what’s wrong with a week in Devon anyway. There are so many beautiful places all over the UK and this would be the ideal opportunity to try them out, while putting the holidays abroad on the back burner until other countries are up to speed with their own vaccination programmes.
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Because everyone will be in bloody Devon and it's a pain in the arse to get to.

If countries were accepting people at the height of the pandemic then responsible, vaccinated people should be afforded the same privilege.
 
shemnel said:
depending on the care home provider, between 5 and 20% of care home staff have refused a vaccine when offered, and up tp 2.7% of residents. I wonder what the overall uptake up to now is?
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That does not surprise me. I was a carer for many years and spent time with a few elderly sick patients and noticed that some of them choose to go on their own terms and just make peace with that towards the end.

More than once after having conversations (real or imagined) with those who had preceded them.

Indeed for some I think they prefer this to lingering. And given what Covid involves in late stages with deeply intrusive ventilation it is hard to blame them.
 
Healdplace said:
Trials to start early February on a mix of the Oxford vaccine and the Russian Sputnik that is hoped to improve efficacy.

Anyone able to comment if this is a credible expectation?
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My understanding: Credible but by no means certain.

Both viruses are "viral vector" - they use a disabled virus to get the genetic material that codes for the spike protein into human cells. Those cells are then programmed to produce spike proteins which the immune system responds to. The Pfizer jab uses

There is a theory that the second dose can be less effective if the immune system reacts not just to the spike protein but to the disabled virus vehicle. That prevents the second dose causing the hoped for level of expression of the spike protein. So using a different vehicle for the second dose can elicit a better response, as the second dose is not attenuated by the body responding to the vehicle.

I think the intent is not to mix the vaccines as such, but rather to use one for the first and the other for the second dose.

Again, from my understanding, the Sputnik vaccine is *already* two different vaccines for the two different doses, using two different vectors, for precisely this reason. I'm not sure why the Oxford vaccine for the other dose should improve things.

Not my area of expertise, so may have misunderstood something.

[As an aside, I would not personally trust anything about the Russian vaccine until published in a reputable journal and approved by a Western regulatory agency. Efficacy, safety and particularly manufacturing and quality control for something done under time pressure for national prestige need independent confirmation IMO. Not at all saying it's definitely dodgy, but you can imagine the pressure to produce "results" with the FSB knocking on the door]
 
kaz7 said:
Call 111 , they will get a dr to call you back and give you antibiotics ,they send it to whatever chemist you want and you just collect it , do it now
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I’ve got a call with the hot covid clinic in ten mins. Will they be able to administer antibiotics? With thus being viral how does that work though?
I need something....I can barely stand up or eat....feels like it’s all over my chest now and coughing is still extremely painful.
 

Covid care home resident deaths almost double in fortnight - ONS​

In amongst those figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today comes data showing deaths of care home residents in England involving Covid-19 have almost doubled in a fortnight.
There were 1,260 deaths involving the virus in care homes notified to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in the week ending 15 January, a 45% rise from the 864 deaths notified during the previous week.
It is almost double the 661 deaths notified to the regulator in the week ending 1 January.
There were also 422 CQC-notified deaths of care home residents in hospitals involving Covid-19 in the week ending January 15, and 24 occurred elsewhere or in a location not stated.
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PannickAtTheDisco said:
Because everyone will be in bloody Devon and it's a pain in the arse to get to.

If countries were accepting people at the height of the pandemic then responsible, vaccinated people should be afforded the same privilege.
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There’s more to holidays in the UK than Devon you know. And if it’s booming everywhere then that will help give our economy a boost.
It’s not for us to tell other countries that they should accept tourists from the UK - that’s up to those countries to decide.
 
somapop said:
I’ve got a call with the hot covid clinic in ten mins. Will they be able to administer antibiotics? With thus being viral how does that work though?
I need something....I can barely stand up or eat....feels like it’s all over my chest now and coughing is still extremely painful.
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viral pneumonia leaves you open to bacterial pneumonia , i had several courses including some iv in hospital, they will give you some to cover you in all likely hood
 
artfuldodger said:

Covid care home resident deaths almost double in fortnight - ONS​

In amongst those figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today comes data showing deaths of care home residents in England involving Covid-19 have almost doubled in a fortnight.
There were 1,260 deaths involving the virus in care homes notified to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in the week ending 15 January, a 45% rise from the 864 deaths notified during the previous week.
It is almost double the 661 deaths notified to the regulator in the week ending 1 January.
There were also 422 CQC-notified deaths of care home residents in hospitals involving Covid-19 in the week ending January 15, and 24 occurred elsewhere or in a location not stated.
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Not a great surprise, since hospitals were trying to discharge patients into care homes again.
 
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