Coronavirus Thread

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

You can't force people to have it and a proportion of people won't be able to have it for one reason or another. 

[filbertway]

For anybody else unaware, I am quite aware that the vaccine can't be forced on anybody

 

I just remember it as being the target was 15 million vaccinations by mid Feb. Obviously a case of the Mandela effect haha

[yorkie1999]

https://data.spectator.co.uk/city/vaccines

[dsr-burnley]

22 minutes ago, filbertway said:

For anybody else unaware, I am quite aware that the vaccine can't be forced on anybody

 

I just remember it as being the target was 15 million vaccinations by mid Feb. Obviously a case of the Mandela effect haha

No, it's two separate things.

 

1.  To vaccinate 15m people by 15th February.

2.  To offer vaccinations to everyone in the target group.

 

Two separate targets.  Two separate numbers.  

[BKLFox]

9 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

https://data.spectator.co.uk/city/vaccines

That is some going, it would be nice to hit the projection of all 50+ to have had their 1st vaccine (was going to put dose but knowing the audience thought better of it) by 30th March would be a huge achievement & a real ray of hope that a late spring / summer in the UK could resemble something akin to normality.

 

 

[Col city fan]

Genuinely sad about Captain Tom

Seemed a good bloke and doing something that raised over 30 big ones for the NHS is top banana 

[bovril]

Encouraging news on single dose of the Oxford vaccine

 

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3777268

[StanSP]

This thread is good.

Promising...

 

[yorkie1999]

25 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

That is some going, it would be nice to hit the projection of all 50+ to have had their 1st vaccine (was going to put dose but knowing the audience thought better of it) by 30th March would be a huge achievement & a real ray of hope that a late spring / summer in the UK could resemble something akin to normality.

 

 

The proof is in the pudding though, let's see that  in about 3 weeks we have a reduction of 40% in hospital admissions and deaths.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

So to get to 15 million jabs by the middle of Feb, we need to average about 380K a day for the next fortnight. Will be tight be we know there is capacity in the system so as long as supply holds up we should make it 

Edited 2 February 2021 by Sol thewall Bamba

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Just seen at the current rate, all adults in the UK would be offered their first jab by the 19th of May. 

[Costock_Fox]

6 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

So to get to 15 million jabs by the middle of Feb, we need to average about 380K a day for the next fortnight. Will be tight be we know there is capacity in the system so as long as supply holds up we should make it 

A month ago I would have been buzzing for that but what are the government actually going to do when the top 4 tiers have been vaccinated?

 

Pubs won’t open, restaurants won’t open, we won’t be able to go to the football, we won’t be able to go on holiday. It’s all getting pointless.

[The Quick Brown Fox]

1 minute ago, Costock_Fox said:

A month ago I would have been buzzing for that but what are the government actually going to do when the top 4 tiers have been vaccinated?

 

Pubs won’t open, restaurants won’t open, we won’t be able to go to the football, we won’t be able to go on holiday. It’s all getting pointless.

I think the answer won't be known until we see transmission numbers, hospital numbers and death rates but early signs are promising. 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

3 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

A month ago I would have been buzzing for that but what are the government actually going to do when the top 4 tiers have been vaccinated?

 

Pubs won’t open, restaurants won’t open, we won’t be able to go to the football, we won’t be able to go on holiday. It’s all getting pointless.

Kids back to school probably. Although they need to give 2 weeks notice to do that iirc and no word yet. Gyms as well I am praying.

[Costock_Fox]

1 minute ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Kids back to school probably. Although they need to give 2 weeks notice to do that iirc and no word yet. Gyms as well I am praying.

Forgot about them little shits . If the best we can hope for is schools opening that is still massively grim.

[stix]

1 minute ago, Costock_Fox said:

Forgot about them little shits . If the best we can hope for is schools opening that is still massively grim.

Im just jumping in the car with my two now mate. Text me your address! I’ll pick them up after Easter! 👍

[Stivo]

11 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Just seen at the current rate, all adults in the UK would be offered their first jab by the 19th of May. 

You need to allow for second doses which will consume most of that capacity from mid April,

 

I think that there is a good chance that  novavax may be approved and shipping by April, that could allow us to get to much higher rates if more people to give the jab can be recruited.

[Costock_Fox]

6 minutes ago, stix said:

Im just jumping in the car with my two now mate. Text me your address! I’ll pick them up after Easter! 👍

Depends how much you love your children as to whether you would do that. @Izzy, this isn’t an invitation so don’t even think about it. And I definitely don’t want a wife.

[Stivo]

A new trial shows that delaying the 2nd dose works as a strategy

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55910964

 

the more you read it the better it gets, protection was 76% on 1 dose, 82% after second, and cut down transmission.

Edited 2 February 2021 by Stivo

[Bellend Sebastian]

Is it me, or has general anti-vax noise quietened down a bit lately?

 

It's as if hundreds of thousands of doses being administered with apparently no ill effects and the recipients seem really happy about it has made it slightly less fashionable

 

 

[Stivo]

2 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Is it me, or has general anti-vax noise quietened down a bit lately?

 

It's as if hundreds of thousands of doses being administered with apparently no ill effects and the recipients seem really happy about it has made it slightly less fashionable

 

 

Perhaps the eu and U.K. nearly coming to blows  over doses has sent a positive message!

[davieG]

Had my Vac today very efficient set up, no side effects so far.

[ealingfox]

1 hour ago, Costock_Fox said:

A month ago I would have been buzzing for that but what are the government actually going to do when the top 4 tiers have been vaccinated?

 

Pubs won’t open, restaurants won’t open, we won’t be able to go to the football, we won’t be able to go on holiday. It’s all getting pointless.

 

This is why I'm struggling to feel anything really. It's great that we are managing to roll out the vaccine quickly and efficiently, but doesn't make any difference to my life and there's still no end in sight.

[Alf Bentley]

26 minutes ago, davieG said:

Had my Vac today very efficient set up, no side effects so far.

 

Good to hear x 3.

 

When you got home, did you do a little "Shake 'N' Vac" to celebrate your Vac?

 

 

[Costock_Fox]

12 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

This is why I'm struggling to feel anything really. It's great that we are managing to roll out the vaccine quickly and efficiently, but doesn't make any difference to my life and there's still no end in sight.

So shit isn’t it.