Given that people showing symptoms are still booking through PCR route and the city has been in lockdown tier 3 followed by national for a month not really surprising
I have no medical background. The people that I listen to and trust are Whitty, Vallance and Van Tam. The latter for some reason gives me a lot of reassurance. If he says the vaccines are fine, that will do for me and mine.Expected this thread to be a lot busier this morning, but seems to have subsided a little (it's an odd time at the moment - negative/positive upper cuts every other day).
The Oxford professor (Sharrock?) was on TV this morning discussing the bionTech vaccine. Seems as positive as most others thankfully.
Seems like this own vaccine could potentially be ready for the summer so I suspect this will be seen as a longer term vaccine (far cheaper and far easier to administer logistically).
The Pfizer/BioNtech one then (if it goes ahead) will be a costly but much needed shot in the arm.
Australia are already manufacturing the Oxford/AZ vaccine.
Another question for those that *may* know: is there any minor cause of concern for a mRNA vaccine given it's not been used on humans before. This is not an anti-vaxx weighted question btw (I'm certainly far from it) but it's something that is asked a bit.
Presumably worry of a synthetic innoculation rather than from a live or remnants of a dead virus.
Very sadScottish data up first:
64 Deaths - highest since 6 May! Tragic news.
You might notice almost exactly the same date England's deaths yesterday matched last (7 May).
Cases 1261
488 Greater Glasgow, 272 Lanarkshire, 145 Lothian, 80 Ayrshire
6.5 % positive
1235 In hospital (down 4)
93 on icu ventilators (down 9).
So people have been saying since the start that the PCR tests don’t work, now you have Dr Yeadon an ex advisor for Pfizer coming out and saying the same.
So people have been saying since the start that the PCR tests don’t work, now you have Dr Yeadon an ex advisor for Pfizer coming out and saying the same.
Expected this thread to be a lot busier this morning, but seems to have subsided a little (it's an odd time at the moment - negative/positive upper cuts every other day).
The Oxford professor (Sharrock?) was on TV this morning discussing the bionTech vaccine. Seems as positive as most others thankfully.
Seems like this own vaccine could potentially be ready for the summer so I suspect this will be seen as a longer term vaccine (far cheaper and far easier to administer logistically).
The Pfizer/BioNtech one then (if it goes ahead) will be a costly but much needed shot in the arm.
Australia are already manufacturing the Oxford/AZ vaccine.
Another question for those that *may* know: is there any minor cause of concern for a mRNA vaccine given it's not been used on humans before. This is not an anti-vaxx weighted question btw (I'm certainly far from it) but it's something that is asked a bit.
Presumably worry of a synthetic innoculation rather than from a live or remnants of a dead virus.
Scotland 3 wks ago v 2 wks v last wk v today
Deaths 28 v 28 v 50 v 64 today. Wednesday is always the worst day for death numbers. England today will be bad too. But it will likely be the highest in both nations until next Wednesday. It is how weekend catch up works.
Cases 1735 v 1202 v 1438 v 1261 today. Less sign of a plateau or one at too high a level here. Hence more areas in Scotland going into higher tiers from Friday. Including Perth.
Patients 873 v 1117 v 1257 v 1235 today - Patients DOWN - but then if you lose 103 to death in 48 hours numbers will go down.
ICU ventilators 72 v 85 v 94 v 93 today - decrease - but the same caveat of so many deaths will reduce these numbers.
Though it is at least good that they are not rising rapidly or a lot or they would still be outstripping the deaths.