VAKCINA

Robert Peston
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1) The data shows that the vaccine reduces serious illness and risk of mortality from around 10 days of having just first dose.

2) The risk of acute illness, hospitalisation and mortality is highest in the tenth of population who are over 80 or clinically most vulnerable. 

3) Tier 4 lockdown is designed primarily to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed by those whose Covid19 symptoms require hospital treatment.

4) Tier 4 lockdown is coming to a region near you very soon, if you are not there already.

5) Tier 4 is economically devastating.

6) The costs of a military style operation to vaccinate us would be huge, but they would be a fraction of the economic costs of Tier 4 lockdown.

7) The top priority, by a country mile, of any rational government would therefore be to create the infrastructure for millions of vaccinations per week (I am assuming that the Oxford/AZN vaccine, which is easiest to distribute and of which the government has bought enough for 50m people, is approved in coming days).

8) The threat from the more infectious new Covid-19 strain only strengthens the case for accelerating the vaccination programme to the maximum safe speed.

9) I haven't bothered to make the case that speedier vaccination will save many thousands of lives, possibly tens of thousands, because it's too obvious to mention.

10) I am simply saying there is no economic or financial argument against spending whatever it takes to get the vaccine into us as quickly as possible. 

Pfizer and Moderna are testing their coronavirus vaccines to see if they work against the new mutated version of the virus that's recently been found in the United Kingdom and other countries, according to company statements.

"Based on the data to date, we expect that the Moderna vaccine-induced immunity would be protective against the variants recently described in the UK; we will be performing additional tests in the coming weeks to confirm this expectation," according to the Moderna statement.

Pfizer said it is now "generating data" on how well blood samples from people immunized with its vaccine "may be able to neutralize the new strain from the UK."

The novel coronavirus has mutated before, and both companies say they've found that their vaccines worked against other variations of the virus.

The statements from the two companies reflect the increasing global concern about a new variant of the novel coronavirus that has rapidly spread through the UK.

Experts are unsure of the importance of this mutation, yet a number of countries, including Canada, have imposed restrictions on travelers from the UK.

...the chief executive of the pharmaceutical firm behind the vaccine being used in the UK said the company was confident it would work against the new strain.

BioNTech boss Ugur Sahin said “we don’t know at the moment if our vaccine is also able to provide protection against this new variant”, but because the proteins on the variant are 99% the same as the prevailing strains, the firm has “scientific confidence” in the vaccine.

More than 500,000 people have so far received the Pfizer/BioNTech jab in the UK.

Sotir wrote:Код медицинског особља је имунитет могуће већ на 50%.

boomer crook wrote:@polip: vakcinisanje sticenika domova za stare je pokusaj da se zastite najranjiviji ali osim etickog aspekta tu je i prakticni. zamisli da igras RTS igricu i da stalno jacas svoje polozaje a ne napadas neprijateljske. pre ili kasnije ce doci zerg rush koji ce biti dovoljno veliki i jak da probije svaku tvoju odbranu. vakcinisanje onih koji ce najverovatnije zavrsiti u bolnici ti zapravo stitis i lekare i sam zdravstveni sistem.

sto kaze tolkin ali napadom na minas tirit nije upravljao neki ork razbojnik. nasi politicari su sustinski orci i razbojnici ali medicinari nisu. problem kriznog staba nije sto su neznalice vec kukavice.

@lalinea: da li moze da se skloni? ona ispunjava uslove za penziju. ukoliko nece u ovoj situaciji ona je hrabra zena.

boomer crook wrote:@polip: vakcinisanje sticenika domova za stare je pokusaj da se zastite najranjiviji ali osim etickog aspekta tu je i prakticni. zamisli da igras RTS igricu i da stalno jacas svoje polozaje a ne napadas neprijateljske. pre ili kasnije ce doci zerg rush koji ce biti dovoljno veliki i jak da probije svaku tvoju odbranu. vakcinisanje onih koji ce najverovatnije zavrsiti u bolnici ti zapravo stitis i lekare i sam zdravstveni sistem.

Kirko Skaddeng wrote:Od 600.000 vakcinisanih u SAD, nijedna hospitalizacija zbog neželjenih efekata.