Coronavirus (2021) thread

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twosips said:
Got a link to any articles about this mate
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Googling Taffix shows it for sale - it is quite pricy, as mentioned - £52 for four 100 ml bottles, but cited as 7p/day for some reason (this might be a manufacture price, because otherwise the 4 bottle would last 2 years!)

Basically it is a cellulose-based powder which forms a sticky gel layer, thus making it harder for virus to get into the body by giving it a thick gel layer that it also has to get through.

Derived from the mirror report:

www.cambridge-news.co.uk

New nasal spray 'reduces your risk of Covid infection by 78%'

Taffix nasal spray claims to dramatically reduce the risk of catching coronavirus
www.cambridge-news.co.uk www.cambridge-news.co.uk
 
Another one that likes capitals but essential info

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted: "I've taken the urgent decision to BAN ARRIVALS from ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, BOLIVIA, CAPE VERDE, CHILE, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, FRENCH GUIANA, GUYANA, PANAMA, PARAGUAY, PERU, SURINAME, URUGUAY AND VENEZUELA - from TOMORROW, 15 JAN at 4AM following evidence of a new variant in Brazil.

"Travel from PORTUGAL to the UK will also be suspended given its strong travel links with Brazil - acting as another way to reduce the risk of importing infections. However, there is an exemption for hauliers travelling from Portugal (only), to allow transport of essential goods.

"This measure does not apply to British and Irish Nationals and third country nationals with residence rights - but passengers returning from these destinations must self-isolate for TEN DAYS along with their households."
 
kaz7 said:
Three million COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, health secretary says

Matt Hancock has tweeted to say that three million COVID-19 vaccines have been given out so far.

It comes as community pharmacies begin to roll out the jab from today
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Great milestone - delighted with that - they are not messing about. Every few hundred thousand is a step closer to our freedom back.
 
banning flights from Brazil and Portugal because of the new variant just feels a bit pointless for me, it's already probably here and how many thousands are infected with this strain in other countries flying over - unless we completely shut down the borders for months and months, i don't see how we can stop certain strains.
 
MillionMilesAway said:
Is this just a case that she was asked about it to have the subject brought up? If so, she couldn't duck the issue.
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Perhaps that's the case, yeah, but playing devil's advocate here then I'd question if it wasn't a major issue then why would the media be talking about it in the first place? Before you answer that, I know the role of the media and what they're like, but even they are obviously picking up on these concerns from somewhere and surely that can only be the scientific community? Sorry, I'm having too much time for my mind to wander whilst self isolating ha, but you can see where I'm coming from I hope?

To answer @roubaixtuesday question, yeah those are her words. They aren't particularly reassuring, even if they weren't specifically meant to cause alarm.
 
I see Mayor Khan is whinging about vaccine distribution to London. 14% of the UK population and only 9% of the vaccine according to him.
Sadly he didn't read the vaccine plan and understand that the vaccine is targeted at over 70's at the moment for which London only has 9% of the UK population.
 
artfuldodger said:
I can’t imagine how that would work, although I assume it has in the past? I think it would be difficult enough to persuade parents to allow their children to be vaccinated for something that barely makes them ill, but to get consent for them to be part of a trial would be even harder.
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Paediatric trials have already started.

Here's details of one of the the Moderna ones

ClinicalTrials.gov

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That's in children 12 and above.

For paediatric trials, ethics normally dictate that there is an expectation that children on the trial should benefit, as well as that the risk/benefit is favourable.

Typically, to control risks, paediatric trials don't start until adult data is available, and run down in age ranges (oldest first) as the physiology of younger children is more different.

Children can suffer serious COVID disease, and risks are very low, so this is as would be expected.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
banning flights from Brazil and Portugal because of the new variant just feels a bit pointless for me, it's already probably here and how many thousands are infected with this strain in other countries flying over - unless we completely shut down the borders for months and months, i don't see how we can stop certain strains.
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Certainly beats not trying.
 
grunge said:
Is there any actual info on this Brazil Strain? only places I can see it mentioned are on UK Main Stream media.
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Nothing publicly available.
Just anecdotal observations on the decline of Antibody effectiveness.
 
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ayrshire_blue said:
Perhaps that's the case, yeah, but playing devil's advocate here then I'd question if it wasn't a major issue then why would the media be talking about it in the first place? Before you answer that, I know the role of the media and what they're like, but even they are obviously picking up on these concerns from somewhere and surely that can only be the scientific community? Sorry, I'm having too much time for my mind to wander whilst self isolating ha, but you can see where I'm coming from I hope?

To answer @roubaixtuesday question, yeah those are her words. They aren't particularly reassuring, even if they weren't specifically meant to cause alarm.
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Quite clear, yes, no problem with that.

I was just thinking of what might have made Steedman say that. It doesn't seem likely to have be something that would be mentioned without a prompt.

I went looking! About 25:50 here:


She did talk more than was prompted, but maybe it's wanting to be more forthcoming than be accused of something. Either way, there's a lot of context which the one sentence quote stripped away.
 
In Asda now. Seen a few without masks or noses exposed or mask over chin only!!! This is what we are up against!!!!!!
 
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