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Coronavirus

SteveAWOL said:
Only 49% efficacy against South African strain is slightly concerning and no data on Brazilian variant but guess they can tweak formula in the months before Novavax is distributed

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I would think by the time I'm due to get my vaccine the formula's on all of them would have been tweaked from the original
I read something saying they can tweak it and get it into production within a few weeks
 
SpurMeUp said:
Our government has been pretty sloppy, but a shining light was the way they went out and secured vaccines before they were finished. Someone twigged that this was going to key and acting fast and early (for once) would pay dividends.
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The same taskforce that was heavility criticised for having someone from private equity lead it and splashed across the front page for spending 600K on PR. Looking like a pretty good decision now.
 
Robspur12 said:
The problem still remains that we have built our public health response so poorly that we are now over reliant on the vaccines.

We have to put them into people's arms whatever the efficacy, what ever extending the interval between the doses leads to in terms of increasing vaccine resistance. We have to take risks with the programme that other countries who have managed their pandemic response better don't have to.

The numbers game is false while poorer countries are not vaccinating their populations, they present a big risk that a mutant will arise that significantly reduces the efficacy our vaccines. The pandemic is still a long way from being over even with vaccines. They buy us time nothing else.

So I want the government to fix the public health systems like test, trace and isolate and properly put in place and maintain a quarantine system to prevent infections being reintroduced.
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Yup, rather concerning that most developing nations won’t have vaccinated their populations for couple of years yet.

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P.D. said:
The same taskforce that was heavility criticised for having someone from private equity lead it and splashed across the front page for spending 600K on PR. Looking like a pretty good decision now.
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Well you'd hope that government itself could make cogent decisions [emoji85]. If we're relying on them spending half a million every time the they need to think ahead, I'd prefer we just have a new government who are able to plan and act themselves.
 
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SteveAWOL said:
Only 49% efficacy against South African strain is slightly concerning and no data on Brazilian variant but guess they can tweak formula in the months before Novavax is distributed

https://twitter.com/x/status/1354900984993083392
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The article on BBC quotes from the manufacturer that In the South African part of the trial, where most of the cases were the South African variant of the virus, the vaccine was 60% effective among those without HIV.
 
SpurMeUp said:
Well you'd hope that government itself could make cogent decisions [emoji85]. If we're relying on them spending half a million every time the they need to think ahead, I'd prefer we just have a new government who are able to plan and act themselves.
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Given the amount of ani vaxxers, resistance to vaccines from certain groups, general hostility towards the taskforce I'd say 600K is peanuts.
 
So, it sounds like we should have got AstraZenica to negotiate Brexit!

And that the EU either I. Need better lawyers or II. Need to understand contracts wording.
It's clearly worded as a best efforts contract.
 
AuroRaman said:
39 but have an auto-immune condition. It’s because of the meds I’m taking for it that I’m in the priority group but to be honest, my dosage has gone down to what one would give a toddler because of changes I’ve made to diet and lifestyle. But I got the text so off I went.
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Well stay safe and all that other hippy brick I keep hearing people say to each other.
 
Teachers are lazy and work shy is the most gross generalisation I've ever heard on here. I have two siblings who teach and school closures and remote learning make their lives much harder but they want safety first. They have worked harder than ever before and are doing crazy hours even during holidays.
 
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