Coronavirus - general, non tennis related

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: Coronavirus - general, non tennis related

flamingowings · All-time great

JonH comes home wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Good news about the approval of another vaccine today - Moderna. Hope that the distribution infrastructure can cope with what will be a rapid increase in the volume of doses available.
My friends son is working at a local vaccination centre. Old folks are getting there and asking for the Oxford vaccine. And saying theyll wait when told it is the one. One said to him we had a war With the Germans, I dont want that one... I realise now what happened with brexit.

If they don't want it, I will have it!!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Good news about the approval of another vaccine today - Moderna. Hope that the distribution infrastructure can cope with what will be a rapid increase in the volume of doses available.
My friends son is working at a local vaccination centre. Old folks are getting there and asking for the Oxford vaccine. And saying theyll wait when told it is the one. One said to him we had a war With the Germans, I dont want that one... I realise now what happened with brexit.

How very sad.

Elegant Point · Satellite level

Bob in Spain wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Good news about the approval of another vaccine today - Moderna. Hope that the distribution infrastructure can cope with what will be a rapid increase in the volume of doses available.
My friends son is working at a local vaccination centre. Old folks are getting there and asking for the Oxford vaccine. And saying theyll wait when told it is the one. One said to him we had a war With the Germans, I dont want that one... I realise now what happened with brexit.
How very sad.

Not only sad, but ridiculous. Sure plenty of teachers, shop staff and others in public facing roles would be glad to be offered the vaccine! The other issue is many think the vaccine is like a cloak of invincibility - the elderly still need to be careful even after being vaccinated. My elderly mother is eagerly awaiting the vaccine so she can 'go shopping' hmm

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Somewhere up north ended up giving all the spares to local police officers who were helping man the vaccine centre when the oldies didn't want the 'nasty foreign' injection.

Well done, that surgery, I thought !

Utterly ridiculous.

Not to mention that the Pfizer is far more suitable for elderly patients (the Oxford is fine for under 60s but has markedly lower success rates for older people).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
Good news about the approval of another vaccine today - Moderna. Hope that the distribution infrastructure can cope with what will be a rapid increase in the volume of doses available.

Should be good for Spain.

Doesn't really make much difference here as the order isn't until Easter.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
Good news about the approval of another vaccine today - Moderna. Hope that the distribution infrastructure can cope with what will be a rapid increase in the volume of doses available.
Should be good for Spain.
Doesn't really make much difference here as the order isn't until Easter.

Let's hope so. In my town, we reached a peak of 155 cases a few weeks ago (pop. 20k approx) but this has come down substantially. We are hovering in the 30-50 now over the last couple of weeks and many of them are in the residential homes.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Did you see the Mail making play of queen and dukey getting the Oxford Vaccine. Itll just make more folks want that one now. Ridiculous. What makes intelligent people think like this?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Really? I thought they hadn't divulged which one they had?

The Pfizer is so much better for old people that I can't believe they gave them the Oxford one. Really?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Really? I thought they hadn't divulged which one they had?

The Pfizer is so much better for old people that I can't believe they gave them the Oxford one. Really?

Its mentioned in several articles if you google

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Heres an example article - largely tabloid

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queen-prince-philip-covid-vaccine-23291656

indiana · Tennis legend

Summarising the last 6 weeks' UK figures including the latest week to Friday, as to be expected deaths are markedly up again and unfortunately new cases continue to also rise with Friday's 68,053 figure being the highest single day's report yet.

28/11 - 04/12 : new cases 101,131, deaths 3,066
05/12 - 11/12 : new cases 119,022, deaths 2,890
12/12 - 18/12 : new cases 161,713, deaths 3,034
19/12 - 25/12 : new cases 244,145, deaths 3,654
26/12 - 01/01 : new cases 320,753, deaths 3.930
02/01 - 08/01 : new cases 415,408, deaths 5,708

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Coup Droit wrote:
Somewhere up north ended up giving all the spares to local police officers who were helping man the vaccine centre when the oldies didn't want the 'nasty foreign' injection.

Well done, that surgery, I thought !

Utterly ridiculous.

Not to mention that the Pfizer is far more suitable for elderly patients (the Oxford is fine for under 60s but has markedly lower success rates for older people).

Should be common practice with the crippling expensive Pfizer vaccine as storage such a problem. The Oxford vaccine in many ways is the key to dealing with the pandemic worldwide. Much easier to get to patients as opposed to the need for patients to come to it... etc. Clinical efficacy not the only consideration in terms of utility for the elderly particularly those that cant travel.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I'm not sure mass vaccination centres will work for those in their 80's or have a serious condition.
Quite a few will struggle to travel significant distances and may wait for more local centres.
I don't think it will be an issue in a few weeks when we drop down an age group though.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
I'm not sure mass vaccination centres will work for those in their 80's or have a serious condition.
Quite a few will struggle to travel significant distances and may wait for more local centres.
I don't think it will be an issue in a few weeks when we drop down an age group though.

My wife took the 98 year old lady she looks after to hers last week at the show ground here in Harrogate. V slick, good staff, bit of a walk from car park but all very efficient and well managed