Stheno wrote: » Thats part of my reasoning for wanting my colleagues to be vaccinated The company I work for have been incredibly diligent in ensuring employees are safe, and I expect they will bring in a requirement that unless you have a medical reason, you must be vaccinated when the vaccine is widely available Id not be surprised if the vaccine becomes available on the open market and they procure a supply for staff
Mike3549 wrote: » And what if they refuse? You cant fire them, like somebody said, its Ireland, not China.
kingbhome wrote: » Mod: The purpose of this thread is baked into the title - COVID-19: Vaccine/antidote and testing procedures - it's not a platform to push an anti vaccination agenda. If posters wish to discuss the perceived cons of vaccinations, or push various theories regarding 'the agenda' (whatever that is supposed to mean), open a thread elsewhere on it. Is there anti vax,. Anti vacation agenda threads here on boards?
Stheno wrote: » https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40086728.html Keyword for the vaccine task force is urgency Very positive messaging from the head of the task force, its good to hear
ceegee wrote: » It will if you're one of the 5% it doesn't work properly for.
Russman wrote: » This might sound silly, I’m not trying to be, but are there any storage facilities in the country that can store the Pfizer vaccine ? I’m just thinking of the, admittedly unlikely, scenario that when approval is given, the doses start shipping a few hours later, and a FedEx plane arrives in Dublin in late December with a cache of vaccines and people are looking at each other blankly.
El Sueño wrote: » If the vaccine is approved in mid December it'll probably take the UK 24 hours or less to start vaccinations, meanwhile our vaccine taskforce will be trying to plan their first meeting to suit everyone's Christmas holidays
COVID-19 is characterized by marked variability in clinical severity. Vitamin D had recently been reviewed as one of the factors that may affect the severity in COVID-19. The objective of current study is to analyze the vitamin D level in COVID-19 patients and its impact on the disease severity. After approval from Ethics Committee, M.L.B Medical College the current study was undertaken as continuous prospective observational study of 6 weeks. Participants were COVID-19 patients of age group 30-60 years admitted during the study period of 6 weeks. Study included either asymptomatic COVID-19 patients (Group A) or severely ill patients requiring ICU admission (Group . Serum concentration of 25 (OH)D, were measured along with serum IL-6; TNFα and serum ferritin. Standard statistical analysis was performed to analyze the differences. Current Study enrolled 154 patients, 91 in Group A and 63 patients in Group B. The mean level of vitamin D (in ng/mL) was 27.89 ± 6.21 in Group A and 14.35 ± 5.79 in Group B, the difference was highly significant. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was 32.96% and 96.82% respectively in Group A and Group B. Out of total 154 patients, 90 patients were found to be deficient in vitamin D (Group A: 29; Group B: 61). Serum level of inflammatory markers was found to be higher in vitamin D deficient COVID-19 patients viz. IL-6 level (in pg/mL) 19.34 ± 6.17 vs 12.18 ± 4.29; Serum ferritin 319.17 ± 38.21 ng/mL vs 186.83 ± 20.18 ng/mL; TNFα level (in pg/mL) 13.26 ± 5.64 vs 11.87 ± 3.15. The fatality rate was high in vitamin D deficient (21% vs 3.1%). Vitamin D level is markedly low in severe COVID-19 patients. Inflammatory response is high in vitamin D deficient COVID-19 patients. This all translates into increased mortality in vitamin D deficient COVID-19 patients. As per the flexible approach in the current COVID-19 pandemic authors recommend mass administration of vitamin D supplements to population at risk for COVID-19.
ixoy wrote: » If the UK does do this - and I'd have my doubts - then the journalists should be honestly shredding the HSE at NPHET briefings and asking why they're only starting up a task force now when the basics should be in place.
ACitizenErased wrote: » New study published in the National Library of Medicine in the US has recommended mass administration of vitamin D supplements to population at risk for COVID-19.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33214648/
Marhay70 wrote: » My pharmacist advised me back in May that it would be beneficial for myself and my wife to take a Vitamin D supplement and I've been taking them ever since. It's often the street level health professionals who give the best advice. Of course the greedy distributors have made them a premium product now, adding over 60% to the price since then.
ACitizenErased wrote: » I get mine on MyProtein. With Student Discount I can get ~500 capsules for like a tenner.
Miike wrote: » Currently have a 45% sale on too with code "BLACK". I expect to be carded for posting a bargain alert in a COVID thread :pac:
Marhay70 wrote: » Good price, although I doubt I'll qualify for a student discount, that's in the dim and distant past.:( Which one do you get?
IrishStuff09 wrote: » If you need a discount code feel free to PM me and I'll send one your way
chrisbonnie wrote: » Any chance of your bank account details as well?
Dickie10 wrote: » should the public at large and by extension the media start to ramp up the pressure on HSE to make sure its house is in order for vaccinations to start within 24 hrs of green light given, like we should get a huge amount vaccinated if going on 12 hour shifts 7 days a week, all through xmas. like instead of massive reaction and fall out from a scandal and the pressure that puts agencies under to deliver something or do the right thing, i think we need to ramp up and frontload the pressure on HSE to put them on thier toes
Marhay70 wrote: » I was flicking through the TV channels earlier on and came across a repeat of a radio news show which was hosted by Katie Hannon and every second text coming through was expressing concern over how the government and more especially the HSE were likely to handle the vaccine roll out, suffice it to say confidence wasn't high. At least it's out there and people are putting their views into the public domain, no harm in keeping up the pressure.
jackboy wrote: » The HSE have been under massive pressure for years and they aren’t even slightly bothered. Pressure won’t work. Realistically nothing will work. We are dependent on the HSE bothering to organise this properly if they feel like it.
kingbhome wrote: » Both sides of the debate have valid evidence on who's right and wrong which to me, is destressing.
