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COVID-19: Vaccine and testing procedures Megathread Part 3 - Read OP

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No anti-vax stuff in this thread - it's to discuss the various vaccines available and how they are getting rolled out, as well as testing procedures

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redt0m

feelings wrote: »

Ouch, that's some delay. What age?

If the EMA announcement on Thursday is positive, I presume they'll recommence the AZ vaccinations here fairly quickly?

josip

brickster69 wrote: »

Wow, so 10 Million Euro of funding. UK has donated £700 million and pledged all spare vaccines. That is one country compared to 27.

But not before they've vaccinated everyone of their own first.
Easy to "pledge" now, how many have they actually given?

josip

Szero wrote: »

Parts of the US are now down to those aged 40+.

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1371830272715546626

The UK is reported to be going to those aged 40+ by Easter.

Meanwhile we are on 80+. Books will be written about the slow EU rollout.

Starting Friday, not today according to your link.
We're on 75+ since yesterday, my aunt got hers today.
The US have a vaccine nationalisation policy like the UK so they were always going to be ahead.

is_that_so

brickster69 wrote: »

Wow, so 10 Million Euro of funding. UK has donated £700 million and pledged all spare vaccines. That is one country compared to 27.

EU will be sharing surplus anyway and they've ordered over 2bn of them.

hmmm

eoinbn wrote: »

We can't pause for every possible link when the possible link is flimsy. Right now we are vaccinating at between 5-10m a week in the EU. What happens when we are at 30m a week? There will be more recently vaccinated people dying, for various reasons, and more flimsy links. We really need a handle on this.
We need a better reason than 'an abundance of caution'. We need some hard numbers on the reason behind the pause in the rollout.

Completely agree. We're almost fortunate this is only the AZ vaccine, can you imagine if we put the Pfizer vaccine on hold?

Considering the economic and human cost to the ongoing epidemic, it should take something significant to interrupt it. We're missing a bit of balance here - I don't blame the people involved, but they all have very narrow responsibilities and someone has to take responsibility for the wider picture.

josip

Wolf359f wrote: »

It seems only AZ is associated with the rare brain clot.
General clotting as a whole is expected, but a rare brain clot in a very localised cluster has only been seen in people vaccinated with AZ.
The media seem to be forgetting that fact.

Some of the populist British media outlets choosing to ignore it more likely

eoinbn

Szero wrote: »

The UK is reported to be going to those aged 40+ by Easter.

Meanwhile we are on 80+. Books will be written about the slow EU rollout.

Sounds like a dull read. The consequences could be more interesting though. Another nail on the coffin of the EU.

eoinbn

RavenBea17b wrote: »

Look, if there is a concern, I would prefer Prudence and investigation. I am sure it will work out.
But saying that, vaccines were not paused - at that time.

We can't pause for every possible link when the possible link is flimsy. Right now we are vaccinating at between 5-10m a week in the EU. What happens when we are at 30m a week? There will be more recently vaccinated people dying, for various reasons, and more flimsy links. We really need a handle on this.
We need a better reason than 'an abundance of caution'. We need some hard numbers on the reason behind the pause in the rollout.

JTMan

For over age 50, every 100,000 vaccines delayed by just 1 day ... 15 lives lost.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1371776320829599745

A SPEEDY resumption AZ/Oxford is needed on Thursday.

PCeeeee

brickster69 wrote: »

Wow, so 10 Million Euro of funding. UK has donated £700 million and pledged all spare vaccines. That is one country compared to 27.

You can be very proud.

Szero

Parts of the US are now down to those aged 40+.

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1371830272715546626

The UK is reported to be going to those aged 40+ by Easter.

Meanwhile we are on 80+. Books will be written about the slow EU rollout.

iamwhoiam

RavenBea17b wrote: »

Look, if there is a concern, I would prefer Prudence and investigation. I am sure it will work out.

Especially as it was earmarked for the highly vulnerable .

RavenBea17b

ACitizenErased wrote: »

The Norwegians said Pfizer was killing people too back in January. I'm surprised we're even listening to them.

Look, if there is a concern, I would prefer Prudence and investigation. I am sure it will work out.
But saying that, vaccines were not paused - at that time.

brickster69

ixoy wrote: »

We're part of the EU's COVAX program so we're helping out with that €1bn program.

Wow, so 10 Million Euro of funding. UK has donated £700 million and pledged all spare vaccines. That is one country compared to 27.

pc7

Sorry if this has already been posted, is there anywhere to see how many people are in each cohort, eg over 85's, 80+, etc?

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ACitizenErased wrote: »

The Norwegians said Pfizer was killing people too back in January. I'm surprised we're even listening to them.

No they didn't. They raised concerns regarding a number of deaths in elderly people linked to the vaccine. They never suggested the vaccine was at fault and the investigation showed it wasn't.

robinph

Wolf359f wrote: »

German also noticed something similar, but I don't know if there was a cluster of cases of it in the same location or just spread out over the country.

They could have went ahead vaccinating across Europe untill dozens of more cases popup in clusters around Europe, that would certainly have pointed to AZ, if cases didn't pop up, then that rules AZ out. But I don't think that's how they investigate issues around vaccine safety.

Had there been a link, countries were afraid clusters of cases would be popping up all over Europe and it could have caused a **** storm.

But there isn't any evidence of a link, or Norway are keeping it to themselves.

There is also the point that even if there happens to be a rate of 3 people dying from blood clots per 17million vaccinations it is still better to crack on with the vaccination program at the moment. There is a far higher risk of getting run over crossing the road on the way to the vaccination centre than there is of getting a blood clot, regardless of if the vaccine is responsible for the blood clots or not.

ACitizenErased

timsey tiger wrote: »

Did they really?

Yeah was all over the news back in January. They said all deaths are linked to the Pfizer vaccine.
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/norway-concern-pfizer-vaccine/

timsey tiger

ACitizenErased wrote: »

The Norwegians said Pfizer was killing people too back in January. I'm surprised we're even listening to them.

Did they really?

Wolf359f

robinph wrote: »

Who also happen to work in the same hospital.

Could be wrong, but if you have something used so widely across a massive population with no issues, but then a couple of cases pop up in one town, in one work place, in people doing the same job... The first thing to look at is locally to see if there is any other link.

It is a good reason to suspend vaccination in that town/ hospital temporarily. Its not a good reason to suspend it internationally though.

German also noticed something similar, but I don't know if there was a cluster of cases of it in the same location or just spread out over the country.

They could have went ahead vaccinating across Europe untill dozens of more cases popup in clusters around Europe, that would certainly have pointed to AZ, if cases didn't pop up, then that rules AZ out. But I don't think that's how they investigate issues around vaccine safety.

Had there been a link, countries were afraid clusters of cases would be popping up all over Europe and it could have caused a **** storm.

Tacitus Kilgore

Bartyman wrote: »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9366963/Coronavirus-Pfizers-Covid-vaccine-linked-blood-clots-AstraZenecas-UK.html

Playing politics now, couldn't make this **** up.

Daily mail, not like they would be biased on this.

brickster69 wrote: »

It is true. If the other vaccines have been connected to the same thing why are others not suspending them all ?

There's a surprise, brickster 'sticking it' to the EU :pac:

astrofool

brickster69 wrote: »

You do know who put Covax together and how much they donated. Also pledged it's remaining vaccines to poorer countries once finished it's own population. No doubt they will be exporting also to poorer countries.

What has Ireland done ?

You said lots of old people are dying because postmen are being prioritised, is the UK going to start shipping out vaccine today to help them?

EU has shipped over 35M vaccine worldwide, UK has shipped 0, yet you think the EU is bad, I present a mirror to you.

robinph

Wolf359f wrote: »

It seems only AZ is associated with the rare brain clot.
General clotting as a whole is expected, but a rare brain clot in a very localised cluster has only been seen in people vaccinated with AZ.
The media seem to be forgetting that fact.

Who also happen to work in the same hospital.

Could be wrong, but if you have something used so widely across a massive population with no issues, but then a couple of cases pop up in one town, in one work place, in people doing the same job... The first thing to look at is locally to see if there is any other link.

It is a good reason to suspend vaccination in that town/ hospital temporarily. Its not a good reason to suspend it internationally though.

ACitizenErased

The Norwegians said Pfizer was killing people too back in January. I'm surprised we're even listening to them.

Pete_Cavan

Monster249 wrote: »

Can someone explain the logic of us keeping the AZ vaccine on the shelf despite the EMA declaring the benefits outweigh the potential side effects?

If we hadn't paused, a lot of people would be asking why are we still dishing it out when many countries have stopped to investigate a safety issue which has arisen. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Wolf359f

brickster69 wrote: »

It is true. If the other vaccines have been connected to the same thing why are others not suspending them all ?

It seems only AZ is associated with the rare brain clot.
General clotting as a whole is expected, but a rare brain clot in a very localised cluster has only been seen in people vaccinated with AZ.
The media seem to be forgetting that fact.

robinph

josip wrote: »

Probably because the AZ events have been clustered and the suspicions are about batch quality rather than an overall concern with the vaccine.

But that same batch has been used across Europe. The initial suspensions a few days ago were only on a specific numbers of Astra Zeneca batch.

brickster69

mick087 wrote: »

There is no logic at all.

I'm starting to wonder if this is not about the effectiveness of the vaccine at all now.

I have been saying it for months. But no, people only see what they want to see.

brickster69

Bartyman wrote: »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9366963/Coronavirus-Pfizers-Covid-vaccine-linked-blood-clots-AstraZenecas-UK.html

Playing politics now, couldn't make this **** up.

It is true. If the other vaccines have been connected to the same thing why are others not suspending them all ?

josip

brickster69 wrote: »

Because the other vaccines do not have a Union Jack on the box. Have you not worked it out yet after the last 6 weeks ?

No, not this.