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England hospital data: Last 24 hours


Patients

Down 513 in day to 30, 333 - was 33, 235 last Thursday.

Ventilated

Down 23 in day to 3585 - was 3607 last Thursday



Regions:


East

Patients down 122 to 3689 (was 4078) // Ventilated down 21 to 352 (was 354)


London

Patients up 121 to 6393 (was 7332) // Ventilated up 36 to 1208 (was 1217)


Midlands

Patients down 130 to 5810 (was 6380) // Ventilated down 15 to 658 (was 627)


NE/Yorks

Patients down 61 to 3593 (was 3814) // Ventilated down 10 to 309 (was 322)


North West

Patients down 61 to 4203 (was 4287) // Ventilated up 9 to 396 (was 402)


South East

Patients down 197 to 4614 (was 5033) // Ventilated down 11 to 466 (was 478)



South West

Patients down 63 to 2031 (was 2311) // Ventilated down 5 to 196 (was 207)
 
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something i thought of before,i have had my first pfizer jab with work with the second in april however if like some are saying that we will probably need a booster every year would i have to have the pfizer jab every year or would they be able to give me the az jab.
 
city saint said:
something i thought of before,i have had my first pfizer jab with work with the second in april however if like some are saying that we will probably need a booster every year would i have to have the pfizer jab every year or would they be able to give me the az jab.
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I would have thought any brand could be used as a booster.
 
Gabriel said:
Swiss company Novartis offering its services to produce more companies’ vaccines, and Biden likely to use the DPA to force US companies to help in the fight. Need more of such from countries around the world.
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Yep, as others have said it’s not a competition, the more vaccines produced the faster the world can get back to some form of normal, international cooperation is the basis of any success.
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Very quick comment on the German over 65s story.

1. Not a surprise, and same approach taken by FDA in the US (actually FDA more stringent still and haven't approved in younger people either yet).

2. Problem is NOT that efficacy shown to be low but that insufficient older people in the dataset to show either way. Additional trial is being run to address the data gap.

3. Not a concern scientifically: the UK justification was
(i) Good efficacy shown in other age groups
(ii) Excellent immune response measured in older people, equivalent to that in younger, and as good (actually better IIRC) than Pfizer. Efficacy comes from immune response.

MHRA and several other authorities worldwide believe this shows sufficient benefit/ risk to approve. EMA/FDA require formal efficacy data.

Regulatory agencies taking different views on this sort of issue is not unusual.

Main issue is communication for people elsewhere taking the jab, not the decision itself.

My parents are due for vaccination today, based on all of this I'm delighted whichever they get.
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Turns out my parents got the AZ jab today.

Been reassuring my mum about the German headlines...

I want mine now!

Not a bad week all told - parents safe, City win, United lose, top of the league. Sweet.
 
city saint said:
something i thought of before,i have had my first pfizer jab with work with the second in april however if like some are saying that we will probably need a booster every year would i have to have the pfizer jab every year or would they be able to give me the az jab.
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We really don't know if you will need a booster yet. Nor do we know which vaccine you may or may not need to be boosted with if you do. The chances are quite high that any of them will work to boost but we don't know.
 
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