Stark wrote: » It seems to be linked to under-50s and healthcare workers are pretty much the only under-50s receiving it at the moment.
thecretinhop wrote: » got a text at 2pm to get first vaccine text yes or no. i have a few ailmemts puts me in cat 4. i whould have thought moderate enough high bp etc. anyway is it legit? its for monday:eek:
Tippbhoy1 wrote: » Countries in the main so far are only vaccinating older people and health care workers, and as AZ isn’t being given to the older cohort then the recipients are only hcw’s. Re female, at a guess the industry is dominated by females but that is a very simplistic reason, maybe contraceptive pill could be a factor too. Both guesses on my part
Micky 32 wrote: » Are NEPHET trying to put people off vaccines with their “ NEPHET warn vaccines offer limited protection”
IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: » How can the EU export ban to the UK work if Lipids (a key component of the Pfizer vaccine), are made in the UK? Can they be sourced elsewhere or is Ursula VDL being inept again?
Icantthinkof1 wrote: » Delighted for you I just looked back over the text I received when offered mine it read as follows; Action required (my name) your 1st vaccine dose is (date, time and location) Reply yes to confirm or no to cancel (They also send a text the day before to remind you)
Van.Bosch wrote: » I wonder how the vaccine reporting will change when J&J starts being rolled out. Will need a way to see that those people are fully vaccinated and a second dose isn’t required.
astrofool wrote: » They're generally the ones getting vaccines at this stage of the rollout, also a high proportion are relatively young and female. Important thing to note is that these 2 cases were of people who had the vaccine in the 14 days prior, there is no evidence of a causal link between the two, and from data received so far, they probably would have had thrombotic events if they hadn't been vaccinated.
St.Spodo wrote: » "Vaccines will only offer limited protection between now and summer unless case numbers fall significantly". That is a responsible statement, is it not? We'll only have perhaps one third of the population vaccinated by late May, early June. In that context, if the virus were to spread quickly among the rest of the population, it could still do a lot of damage.
irishlad. wrote: » Just over 14k doses given on the 18th, the majority to cohort 3.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cUZy6AMCwuA2zhtRuKK7cqMVgmhdDsGsZrFWJTkw9DY/edit?usp=sharing
rm212 wrote: » Just got my first dose of AZ this morning (cohort 4). Very busy up in Beaumont Hospital but I have to say they’ve got a very efficient, professional system going on up there. You have to wait 15 mins after the vaccine in a waiting room and they’ve got bottles of water and packs of biscuits out for people, nice little touch from them. Nice to see many young people up there with me getting it and not being skeptical or hesitant about AZ. Feeling quite ill now unfortunately but more than happy to put up with the headache, tiredness, upset stomach etc for a few days to get my vaccine. Absolutely over the moon about it, it was like Christmas morning going up there.
Chile's vaccination rate is the third highest in the world, according to some experts, but that hasn't stopped another resurgence in Covid-19. Infection rates are currently higher there than at any point in the pandemic. Almost all hospital beds in the country are full and a new lockdown is being imposed in the capital Santiago. More than 8.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in the country of 19 million people, according to Oxford University's Covid tracker. But officials say new variants and a relaxation of restrictions has led to the resurgence in cases.
Jim_Hodge wrote: » From the BBC this morning. I find this all very disconcerting.
hmmm wrote: » We've seen something similar in Israel, but there was an interesting graph posted earlier in the thread showing how it was the unvaccinated group making up the vast majority of hospitalisations and deaths. Unless we're seeing mass hospitalisations of vaccinated groups, I'm not going to worry. But it does show I think that it is not sufficient simply to vaccinate the so-called "vulnerable" and then allow the disease to run rampant - it can overwhelm hospitals if enough of the non-vulnerable become sick.
Sweet.Science wrote: » It's so rampant in Chile and Brazil that's it's hard to go 3 weeks after being vaccinated without getting Covid
trellheim wrote: » Just a look back on deliveries Debate here between myself and a few people on deliveries was in the main around whether it would be 850,000, 930,000, 1.1 million, 1.4 millon, or 1.7 million deliveries in Q1. Latest published information ( and should be out again on Wednesday )https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/4f48c-update-on-covid-19-vaccine-deliveries-17-march-2021/ As of 17th March 758,490 Deliveries in the previous two weeks have been 93330 and 144,840 If that continues at that pace then averaging the two above approx 120,000 per week in 14 days to end of Q1 then we should make the million, with the extra promised Pfizer 45000 doses that should make 1.05 million. ( and I will have been wrong in underestimating it farther back in the thread )
While western Europe’s “vaccine war” has been a struggle to prevent doses from being exported, in another part of the world, the battle is to give vaccines away.
Yevon wrote: » My mother, Cohort 4, was due to be vaccinated last Monday before the pause on AZ. Just got a text to reschedule to tomorrow. So a week's delay. Not bad at all given the circumstances. Hoping we see big numbers vaccinated this week and reports of big deliveries on route by this time next week. People could do with some positive news.
