The COVID-2019 Thread

[bsnub]

your spelling skills give away your trailer trash roots.

What are you talking about?

[harrybarracuda]

So it seems that the Thai government met today and have decided that :
"from April 1 to Sept 30, arrivals without a vaccination certificate (VC) and Covid-19 free certificate (CFC) would be quarantined for 10 days, and be tested for the disease twice. "
and
"Arrivals with VCs and CFCs would be quarantined for seven days and tested once. Those with VCs but without CFCs would be tested twice. "
All positive anointments. But....
"The 14-day quarantine period would remain for arrivals from areas where the Covid-19 virus has mutated "
Which seems to be most of the world , so it remains unclear , who it applies too.
So I guess , it's back to the drawing board, awaiting further instruction. Anyone who knows any more about this pleas let me know.
I know there is another thread about this somewhere, but I could not find it.

I'll start one in Thailand and Asia News as I have an interest as well.

[bsnub]

The Biden administration made a pair of key revelations on Thursday as part of the battle against COVID-19, announcing that the national effort to administer 100 million shots will be met today and that the U.S. will loan part of its stockpile to neighboring countries.

President Biden celebrated a small victory on Thursday afternoon, saying that the push to administer 100 million shots will be met today, his 58th day in office — far eclipsing the original goal of 100 million shots in 100 days.

“Behind this 100 million shots are millions of lives changed when people receive that dose of hope,” Biden said from the East Room, adding that number is “just the floor.” “We will not stop until we beat this pandemic.”

According to Bloomberg News’s vaccine tracker, the U.S. is averaging 2.5 million shots per day over the past week, including 2.7 million that individuals received on Thursday alone.

The vaccination effort on the administration’s part was not limited to those in the U.S. as the White House announced that it will loan 4 million doses of the vaccine by AstraZeneca and Oxford University to Canada and Mexico. According to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Mexico will receive 2.5 million doses of the vaccine, while Canada receives 1.5 million. She added that the U.S. has 7 million “releasable” doses of AstraZeneca vaccine overall, adding that the administration could share those with other countries.

“Our first priority remains vaccinating the U.S. population, but the reality is the pandemic knows no borders,” Psaki told reporters. “Ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is mission critical to ending the pandemic” (The Hill).

The AstraZeneca shot has not yet been approved for use in the U.S., but has been greenlighted by the World Health Organization and is in use in both nations, which have continued to use the shot despite reports of side effects in some recipients. However, health regulators in Europe maintained on Thursday that the vaccine is safe after roughly a dozen nations suspended its use.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, citing results of an investigation by the European health regulator, a finding that officials hope will allay concerns of the public after reports of potential side effects (more on this below) (The New York Times).



The Hill's Morning Report — Presented by Facebook — Biden delivers 100 million shots in 58 days, doses to neighbors | TheHill

[harrybarracuda]

The Biden administration made a pair of key revelations on Thursday as part of the battle against COVID-19, announcing that the national effort to administer 100 million shots will be met today and that the U.S. will loan part of its stockpile to neighboring countries.

President Biden celebrated a small victory on Thursday afternoon, saying that the push to administer 100 million shots will be met today, his 58th day in office — far eclipsing the original goal of 100 million shots in 100 days.

Maybe he should talk to the CDC. He's way ahead of that.

Total Vaccine Doses

Delivered 151,108,445

Administered 115,730,008

CDC COVID Data Tracker

[Troy]

The third wave of the virus is growing quickly in Germany and it's a real pig to control without adequate vaccination. I heard a report today that one outbreak was traced to a school class where 14 of the children tested positive but had no symptoms. They were innocently spreading the virus around town without breaking any lockdown rules. That's the scary reality of the virus, no clue who has it and killing randomly.

New infections is up to a country average of 100/100K (50/100K where I live) and a general lockdown will surely be enforced for Easter, which screws up another short break for us.

Still no idea when we will be able to get back to Thailand, or see my Dad in the UK. We're going to have to wait it out a few months more...

[harrybarracuda]

The third wave of the virus is growing quickly in Germany and it's a real pig to control without adequate vaccination.

Perhaps the hun shouldn't have shat all over Astrazeneca then, eh?

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Perhaps the hun shouldn't have shat all over Astrazeneca then, eh?

Not only Germany. Greece had the best record in Europe, now they have as many as 3,000 cases a day. A very worrying trend, as we were planning to go there this spring for Easter, and to take care of some business, now it does not look like it is going to happen.

[strigils]

They held me both times for 15 minutes.

AZ .

Breathalyzer

[Joe 90]

Took half an Aspirin before my jab to be on the safe side with all these rumours of DVT.

Very slick professional roll out in the UK.

Did feel a bit dizzy after mine although that was probably down to last night's hangover

[panama hat]

Perhaps the hun shouldn't have shat all over Astrazeneca then, eh?

Except 'they' didn't . . . your ingrained soap-dodging paranoia is showing again.

Add Canada, all the Scandi countries etc... You want to make it a nationalistic thing - your option, but it's bullshit. Enough of the partisan crap in an epidemic. Perhaps it'd be better cleaning up the mess of the Brits and Americans showing close to 3/4 of a million deaths from covid.

130.000 of those deaths alone in the UK - what was the phrase? Inbred soap-dodging island-monkey trash?

Ah, that was easy. I guess that's a better way to discuss the topic

New infections is up to a country average of 100/100K (50/100K where I live) and a general lockdown will surely be enforced for Easter, which screws up another short break for us.

Chatting on WhatsApp video with my brother last night (snow falling in the background - looked pretty - but it's cold!!!) and he is simply shaking his head that the country with the biggest pharma-industry in the world isn't producing a covid-19 vaccine . . . an industry three times the size of the UK and US . . . and that's because all situations must be considered, all avenues explored and then the iceberg will move.
Added to which, BioNTech is German but not producing the vaccine in Germany.

The issue now is who will be allowed to do the jab once mass-vaccination comes into play - and it's going to be very different from anyone else because . . . Germans.

Hyper-efficient, no doubt, but incredibly slow-moving at the start

[Joe 90]

Let's hope they get there shit together soon..

Coronavirus cases are rising exponentially in Germany, officials warn, as continental Europe braces for a third wave of infections.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was likely that the country would now need to apply an "emergency brake" and re-impose lockdown measures.

France, Poland and other nations are also reintroducing restrictions.

German Health Minister Jens Spahn has said that Europe lacks the vaccines needed to significantly reduce cases.

"We have to be honest about the situation - in Europe we don't have enough vaccines to stop a third wave through vaccinations alone," he told reporters.

The vaccine rollout across the EU has been hindered by delayed deliveries as well as the suspension in several countries of the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, over fears of possible side effects.

[Latindancer]

Took half an Aspirin before my jab to be on the safe side with all these rumours of DVT.

Good thinking, except half will do very little. When I get it, I intend to take at least two. You can't be too careful...

[harrybarracuda]

Good thinking, except half will do very little. When I get it, I intend to take at least two. You can't be too careful...

There are rumours it puts a 5G chip in your DNA as well, so don't forget to wear a lead-lined suit so they can't track you.

[Slick]

Enough of the partisan crap in an epidemic.

Whooo boy. Irony overload.

[harrybarracuda]

People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to continue getting tested unless they start to show symptoms of the disease, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS This Morning on Friday.

In response to a question on whether those who have been vaccinated need to continue getting tested, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said “Not necessarily. In fact, I wouldn’t say that that’s something that you should do.”

“If you’ve been fully vaccinated with two doses of the mRNA or one dose of the J&J I would not be considering, unless you develop symptoms that were suggestive, but not if you’re without symptoms,” he said.

People who have been fully vaccinated do not need Covid-19 testing if not showing symptoms, Fauci says

[harrybarracuda]

Eurotrash take note:

Pfizer has warned the EU to back down from its threat to block vaccines to the UK because the firm needs crucial ingredients shipped from Yorkshire, The Telegraph has learned.

The drugmaker and its partner BioNTech have told Brussels that the UK has the power to retaliate against any export ban by withholding raw materials needed for its jab.

Croda International, a chemicals firm based in Snaith, Yorkshire, has been delivering vital "fatty molecules" to Pfizer's factories in the EU since signing a five-year contract with the firm in November.

Pfizer and BioNtech are understood to have warned EU leaders that production at the main vaccine factory in Belgium could "grind to a halt" within weeks if the UK moved to prevent deliveries from crossing the Channel.

Exclusive: Pfizer warns EU to back down on Covid vaccine threats to UK

[harrybarracuda]

Wouldn't you know it:

In a study undergoing peer review, the CBD compound from cannabis has been found to stop COVID-19 replication in lung epithelial cells, suggesting the plant medicine holds yet another astounding quality.

Furthermore, observational data from patients who were taking CBD before they were tested for coronavirus showed that its use was associated with a significantly lower infection incidence rate than those not taking CBD.

Measured together with its metabolite 7-OH-CBD, cannabidiol (CBD) inhibited the expression of certain genes within the viral cells, and reversed changes in gene expression within the lung cells resulting from the presence of COVID-19—in other words it had both a protective and a therapeutic role.

It was also found to block viral RNA expression, including the coding for the spike protein, the tool with which the virus enters our cells.

Another crucial finding was that CBD “effectively reversed” the triggering of a hyperinflammatory response—the so-called “cytokine storm” brought on by the presence of the virus, restoring cells not to a previral level of inflation, but a state as if the cells had been treated with CBD alone.

Cannabis Compound Inhibits COVID-19 Replication in Human Lung Cells, Study Says

[harrybarracuda]

Re: The Blood Clot stuff

The German researchers, who coordinated with colleagues in Austria, Ireland and Britain, said in a statement that patients who show symptoms four days after vaccination, such as headaches, dizziness or impaired vision, could be quickly diagnosed with a blood test. Prof. Greinacher said the news meant that people should not fear the vaccine.

“Very, very few people will develop this complication,” Prof. Greinacher said in a press conference Friday. “But if it happens we now know how to treat the patients.”

Scientists Say They Found Cause of Rare Blood Clotting Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine - WSJ

[harrybarracuda]

On the ability of the vaccine to stop the virus spreading:

Last week, new data from Israel, where nearly 60 percent of the country's 9 million residents have received at least one dose of a vaccine, suggested that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 94 percent effective at preventing asymptomatic infections.

A separate study conducted by researchers at Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom, found that a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine can reduce asymptomatic infections by 75 percent. The results, which have yet to be peer-reviewed, came from an analysis of around 4,400 tests conducted on vaccinated health care workers in Cambridge over a two-week period in January.

In Johnson & Johnson's trials, the company's vaccine was found to be 74 percent effective against asymptomatic infections. And according to a report released in December by the Food and Drug Administration, early data suggested that Moderna's vaccine may also protect against asymptomatic infections, but the company has said more research is needed.

Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security, said the early findings are "very promising." But she added that there are still some big unanswered questions.
"From the real-world data that we have so far, it does look like the vaccines have an impact on asymptomatic infection," she said. "The real question, though, is how broad will this be?"

And because vaccines aren't 100 percent effective, it's possible that a small number of vaccinated people could become infected with the virus. If that does happen and a vaccinated individual is asymptomatic, it's not yet known whether the person could spread Covid-19 to others, Rasmussen said.

<snip>

"We don't need to be at the herd immunity threshold to relax restrictions," she said. "If we can get the virus to be so uncommon in the population, there won't be a risk of people being exposed to it, whether they're vaccinated or not."

Vaccines could prevent asymptomatic infection. Here'''s why that'''s key to ending the pandemic.

[harrybarracuda]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for COVID-19, the country’s health minister said on Saturday, two days after the premier got his vaccination.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pakistan-prime-min-idUSKBN2BC09W

[harrybarracuda]

Retard alert.

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s most influential Islamic organisation said AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is “haram” or forbidden for Muslims, but its use can be temporarily permitted due to a lack of alternatives.

The Indonesian Council of Ulema or MUI said it has conducted studies on the vaccine to see if it is “holy and halal” for Muslims to use.

The studies, said head of the council’s fatwa department Asorirun Niam Sholeh, showed that the AstraZeneca vaccine uses pork-derived trypsin – which is needed to break down proteins – in its production. Pork is considered unclean by Muslims.

“COVID-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca is haram because it uses pork-derived trypsin in its production,” Mr Sholeh told a press conference on Friday (Mar 19).

“Nevertheless, the use of COVID-19 vaccines produced by AstraZeneca is for now permissible.”

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is ‘haram’, but permissible due to urgent situation: Indonesia Islamic body - CNA

[OhOh]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters)

"Chinese Sinopharm and CanSinoBio, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines have been approved for emergency use in Pakistan."


Are vaccine recipients not test for COVID-19 and all mutations, prior to being vaccinated?

[harrybarracuda]

"Chinese Sinopharm and CanSinoBio, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccines have been approved for emergency use in Pakistan."

Are vaccine recipients not test for COVID-19 and all mutations, prior to being vaccinated?

If they're getting that chinese shit, what difference does it make?

[OhOh]

^
It was a general question rather than the person you mentioned.

You and others here on TD have been vaccinated.

Did any of have any tests prior to being vaccinated?

Is it mandatory? Isn't your COVID-19 and all mutations' status, medically important?

[misskit]

Did any of have any tests prior to being vaccinated?

No, it is not a requirement.