The COVID-2019 Thread

[harrybarracuda]

Some good news:

... all five of the vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Novavax and Johnson & Johnson — look extremely good. Of the roughly 75,000 people who have received one of the five in a research trial , not a single person has died from Covid, and only a few people appear to have been hospitalized. None have remained hospitalized 28 days after receiving a shot.

To put that in perspective, it helps to think about what Covid has done so far to a representative group of 75,000 American adults: It has killed roughly 150 of them and sent several hundred more to the hospital. The vaccines reduce those numbers to zero and nearly zero, based on the research trials.

Of course no mention of the chinky or Russian vaccines. No surprise as to why they would hide their data.


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[Buckaroo Banzai]

Personally I think none of you should take the vaccine,
it is terribly dangerous and you should all wait until I got mine.
In fact if you are waiting in line, you should give my your turn. No need to rush, wait until later when there is more vaccine.
Please , please, no need to thank me.

[HermantheGerman]

Elsewhere in the world deliveries continue.
World warmly welcomes Chinese vaccines.
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-31 15:54

Reminds me of the song by the Eagles "DESPERADO".

[cyrille]

The UK has locked down several postcodes

Including your beloved N17!

[harrybarracuda]

Including your beloved N17!

I can only assume you are joking, but it doesn't surprise me that the soap dodging tiny totts are spreading the lurgy.

[cyrille]

I can only assume you are joking

Nope - specifically mentioned on BBC.

The "surge testing" will take place in these eight areas linked to cases of the variant:

Parts of the ME15 postcode area in Kent,
Parts of the WS2 postcode area in Walsall in the West Midlands
Parts of the GU21 postcode area in Woking, Surrey
The CR4 postcode area around Pollards Hill in south London
Tottenham Hale in the N17 area of north London
The W7 area in Hanwell and West Ealing, London
The EN10 postcode area in Broxbourne
Parts of the PR9 area in Southport

Covid-19: People in South African variant test areas urged to '''think twice''' - BBC News

[harrybarracuda]

Nope - specifically mentioned on BBC.



Covid-19: People in South African variant test areas urged to '''think twice''' - BBC News

Derp.

N17.



N7

[strigils]

She really needs to shut up and sort her own mess out instead of deflecting, it really is quite funny seeing this shower squirm.

Ursula von der Leyen accuses UK of compromising on vaccine safety

European commission chief defends record, saying EU’s slower approval process was ‘right decision’

Ursula von der Leyen, pictured last month, said: ‘The commission and the member states agreed not to compromise with the safety and efficacy requirements linked to the authorisation of a vaccine.’

The vaccination programme in the UK has enjoyed a head start through compromising on “safety and efficacy” safeguards, the European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has claimed.

The former German defence minister, who took command of the EU’s executive branch in 2019, said she had a responsibility to take time to ensure the success of the bloc’s mass vaccination programme.

In the face of heavy criticism, including from her predecessor, Jean-Claude Juncker, Von der Leyen said she was committed to her role and should be judged at the end of her term in 2024.

“Some countries started to vaccinate a little before Europe, it is true,” she said, asked about the UK. “But they resorted to emergency, 24-hour marketing authorisation procedures.

“The commission and the member states agreed not to compromise with the safety and efficacy requirements linked to the authorisation of a vaccine. Time had to be taken to analyse the data, which, even minimised, takes three to four weeks.

“So, yes, Europe left it later, but it was the right decision. I remind you that a vaccine is the injection of an active biological substance into a healthy body. We are talking about mass vaccination here, it is a gigantic responsibility.”

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) gave the go-ahead for the vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech on 2 December and Oxford/AstraZeneca on 30 December through a temporary, emergency approval of specific batches, an approach also available to EU member states.

The 27 EU governments decided, however, to seek authorisation together through the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is unable to take the fast-track option. The Pfizer vaccine was approved on 21 December and AstraZeneca received approval last Friday.

Amid criticism at the time of the approval, the MHRA had said it had “rigorously assessed the data in the shortest time possible, without compromising the thoroughness of our review”.

The commission has been criticised over a shortage of vaccine supplies with just 2.84% of the EU’s adult population having received a jab against 14.41% in the UK as of Tuesday.

Ursula von der Leyen accuses UK of compromising on vaccine safety | World news | The Guardian

[harrybarracuda]

Translation: We let the cheese eating surrender monkeys badger us into waiting for the Sanofi vaccine, and we fucked up.

[strigils]

^ From what i have read, the UK ran aspects of approval concurrently so shortening the approval pipeline but carried out the same stages of approval as would usually happen.

[harrybarracuda]

^ From what i have read, the UK ran aspects of approval concurrently so shortening the approval pipeline but carried out the same stages of approval as would usually happen.

Correct. They also backed the development and manufacturing processes significantly to get vaccine production rolling earlier.

[bsnub]

All I can say is that my jab will come on the 17th and I can not wait. It is chaos in most of the red dipshit states but here in Washington the vaccination rollout is picking up steam and being done in an orderly and civil fashion.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

All I can say is that my jab will come on the 17th and I can not wait. It is chaos in most of the red dipshit states but here in Washington the vaccination rollout is picking up steam and being done in an orderly and civil fashion.

That's why I don't understand why we are trying to convince people that don't want to take the vaccine to change their minds.
With limited supplies and a long wait , for those who want to take the vaccine, I think we should convince more of them not to take it, reducing the wait for us who want too.
What?? are we afraid that more republican's idiots will die? Really!!!

[misskit]

Russia's Sputnik V Vaccine 91.6% Effective: Lancet Study - The Moscow Times

[misskit]

About time! (The nutters will be enraged.)

TSA authorized to fine passengers who refuse to wear masks

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been authorized to fine passengers who fail to comply with the new mask requirements on public transportation systems.


The TSA will require travelers to wear masks through airport screening checkpoints and throughout all public transportation systems beginning Tuesday. TSA workers are authorized to deny entry or boarding to passengers who refuse to wear masks, and those passengers could be subject to fines.

MORE TSA authorized to fine passengers who refuse to wear masks | TheHill

[harrybarracuda]

About time! (The nutters will be enraged.)

TSA authorized to fine passengers who refuse to wear masks

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been authorized to fine passengers who fail to comply with the new mask requirements on public transportation systems.


The TSA will require travelers to wear masks through airport screening checkpoints and throughout all public transportation systems beginning Tuesday. TSA workers are authorized to deny entry or boarding to passengers who refuse to wear masks, and those passengers could be subject to fines.

MORE TSA authorized to fine passengers who refuse to wear masks | TheHill

And they should also give them the right to confiscate the smartphones of squealing snowflakes that want to video this "attack on their freedumb" to post on facetube.

[OhOh]

why we are trying to convince people that don't want to take the vaccine to change their minds.

Black Americans are getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans

Jan. 16, 2021, 6:00 PM +07

By Hannah Recht and Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News

"Black Americans are receiving Covid vaccinations at dramatically lower rates than white Americans in the first weeks of the chaotic rollout, according to a new Kaiser Health News analysis.

About 3 percent of Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine so far. But in 16 states that released data by race, white residents are being vaccinated at significantly higher rates than Black residents, according to the analysis — in many cases two to three times higher.

In the most dramatic case, 1.2 percent of white Pennsylvanians had been vaccinated as of Jan. 14, compared with 0.3 percent of Black Pennsylvanians."

Black Americans are getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans

[strigils]

^ there is a big drive in the UK to overcome low uptake rates in some ethnic minority groups. There has been rumour circulating in the Muslim communities about pig product contamination and alcohol all of which is being fed further by uninformed religious leaders and misinformed social media groups. I was listening the other day to an imam on the radio who was having to convince the community that yes some vaccines contained small amounts of alcohol but that the amounts were lower that was contained in bread and so they have nothing to worry about.

Ignorance and social media have much to answer for.

[armstrong]

^ there is a big drive in the UK to overcome low uptake rates in some ethnic minority groups. There has been rumour circulating in the Muslim communities about pig product contamination and alcohol all of which is being fed further by uninformed religious leaders and misinformed social media groups. I was listening the other day to an imam on the radio who was having to convince the community that yes some vaccines contained small amounts of alcohol but that the amounts were lower that was contained in bread and so they have nothing to worry about.

Ignorance and social media have much to answer for.

There's a whole video of celebrity Asians trying to convince the public the vaccine isn't bad for them.

[OhOh]

Ignorance and social media have much to answer for

Clarity and consistent guidance from the authorities would be required. As for "the media", they have product to sell.

[HermantheGerman]

Russia's Sputnik V Vaccine 91.6% Effective: Lancet Study - The Moscow Times

Still not taking, and my dog Rufus is also shaking his head

[harrybarracuda]

Clarity and consistent guidance from the authorities would be required. As for "the media", they have product to sell.

There is ample clarity and consistent guidance. It says "Get vaccinated".

Unfortunately this is offset by the sort of retards that post misinformation and propaganda on the interwebs, some of it convincing enough to fool the uneducated fools like trumpanzees and lefty students.

I myself am confident that my two doses have Pfizer have given me the required protection whilst providing a good 5G signal from the chip to allow Bill Gates to determine when I go to the bog.

[OhOh]

Some perspective regarding vaccine adoption.

[harrybarracuda]

Some perspective regarding vaccine adoption.

Not without any scale there isn't.

[harrybarracuda]

However, the US have now vaccinated more people than they have had cases.