When will this shit end?

[steviewevie]

14 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

 

he really is a bumbahole.

[Guest]

David Guake putting the boot into Farage. 

[Cherry Tree]

1 hour ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Army being brought in?

 

 

Boris on TV 3 times in a week, who does he think he is, Tom Allen.

[parsonjack]

1 hour ago, eFestivals said:

I think you're sort-of right.

Won't this be to announce the mass vaccination centres, which are staffed by the army military?

This.  He's a logistics specialist.

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Cherry Tree said:

Boris on TV 3 times in a week, who does he think he is, Tom Allen.

He’s under pressure from his own MPs, he needs to at least act like he’s doing something. 

[xxialac]

 

What a prat. For someone who works in asset management, his powers of prediction in global markets are hopeless.

[eFestivals]

10 minutes ago, Cherry Tree said:

Boris on TV 3 times in a week, who does he think he is, Tom Allen.

it's a national emergency, don't you know. It started on Monday evening and has needed his full attention ever since.

Good job he's stepping up to take control like he has done all those other times, eh? We know we're safe.

[Gingerfish79]

20 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

David Guake putting the boot into Farage. 

That'll show him! 

[Crazyfool01]

Blair gets his jab ......https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-55571230

 

 

 

Lionel Blair 🙂 

[Mr.Tease]

Disappointing- wonder if it will be the same for the Oxford vaccine, and we essentially have to re-vaccinate every year or two

 

Moderna CEO says vaccine likely to protect for "couple of years"

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is likely to offer protection of up to a couple of years, its chief executive has said, even though more data is still needed to make a definitive assessment.

The US biotech company, which stunned the world last year by coming up with a vaccine against the disease caused by the coronavirus in just a few weeks, received approval for its shot from the European commission on Wednesday.

Given vaccines development and pharmacovigilance usually requires years, the protection duration of Covid-19 shots is a lingering question for scientists and regulators.

“The nightmare scenario that was described in the media in the spring with a vaccine only working a month or two is, I think, out of the window,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said. “The antibody decay generated by the vaccine in humans goes down very slowly [...] We believe there will be protection potentially for a couple of years.”

Bancel added his company was about to prove its vaccine would also be effective against variants of the coronavirus seen in Britain and South Africa.

Scientists have said newly developed vaccines should be equally effective against both variants.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jan/07/coronavirus-live-news-england-sees-record-hospitalisations-arizona-is-covid-hot-spot-of-the-world?page=with:block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721#block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721

[mazola]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

Well I guess that might fit me ... did you speak to someone ? Or do it through the app ? 

I can chip in on this as I'm an outreach officer for an East London local authority, and have been assisting in quite a few applications recently. Not sure if it's nation wide (I'm pretty sure it is) but there is a discretionary system set up at our council where we can still award the T&T payment to people who satisfy all the criteria except for being in receipt of a relevant benefit, so it is definitely worth contacting the council.

If you are unsuccessful with the T&T claim, you can also apply for a Hardship/Individual Assistance payment which is a separate fund for people who are struggling financially due to Covid.

The whole system is a bit of a shambles to be honest, although not through any fault of the councils. I know my council was funded £40,000 to run the scheme (this is for costs not the actual payments) which may sound like a lot but in our case we have had 5 people working full time on it since it was introduced in September, and the whole scheme had to be up and running within a couple of days of us being informed we had to deliver it. We were basically given the qualifying criteria for the payment, but had to set up the claim process, design forms etc from scratch. In man hours alone we have already burnt through the money we have been funded to facilitate it, plus the disruption of taking staff away from their normal work to run the scheme.

last week alone we received nearly 400 applications

[JoeyT]

 

[Guest]

Vaccination data can also be seen already in the healthcare section. Weekly data that is. 

[xxialac]

6 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

Disappointing- wonder if it will be the same for the Oxford vaccine, and we essentially have to re-vaccinate every year or two

 

Moderna CEO says vaccine likely to protect for "couple of years"

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is likely to offer protection of up to a couple of years, its chief executive has said, even though more data is still needed to make a definitive assessment.

The US biotech company, which stunned the world last year by coming up with a vaccine against the disease caused by the coronavirus in just a few weeks, received approval for its shot from the European commission on Wednesday.

Given vaccines development and pharmacovigilance usually requires years, the protection duration of Covid-19 shots is a lingering question for scientists and regulators.

“The nightmare scenario that was described in the media in the spring with a vaccine only working a month or two is, I think, out of the window,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said. “The antibody decay generated by the vaccine in humans goes down very slowly [...] We believe there will be protection potentially for a couple of years.”

Bancel added his company was about to prove its vaccine would also be effective against variants of the coronavirus seen in Britain and South Africa.

Scientists have said newly developed vaccines should be equally effective against both variants.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jan/07/coronavirus-live-news-england-sees-record-hospitalisations-arizona-is-covid-hot-spot-of-the-world?page=with:block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721#block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721

Disappointing? I thought this was absolutely brilliant news!

[Fuzzy Afro]

6 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

Disappointing- wonder if it will be the same for the Oxford vaccine, and we essentially have to re-vaccinate every year or two

 

Moderna CEO says vaccine likely to protect for "couple of years"

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is likely to offer protection of up to a couple of years, its chief executive has said, even though more data is still needed to make a definitive assessment.

The US biotech company, which stunned the world last year by coming up with a vaccine against the disease caused by the coronavirus in just a few weeks, received approval for its shot from the European commission on Wednesday.

Given vaccines development and pharmacovigilance usually requires years, the protection duration of Covid-19 shots is a lingering question for scientists and regulators.

“The nightmare scenario that was described in the media in the spring with a vaccine only working a month or two is, I think, out of the window,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said. “The antibody decay generated by the vaccine in humans goes down very slowly [...] We believe there will be protection potentially for a couple of years.”

Bancel added his company was about to prove its vaccine would also be effective against variants of the coronavirus seen in Britain and South Africa.

Scientists have said newly developed vaccines should be equally effective against both variants.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jan/07/coronavirus-live-news-england-sees-record-hospitalisations-arizona-is-covid-hot-spot-of-the-world?page=with:block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721#block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721

Hopefully the original vaccine rollout should drive the virus to very low prevalence and then the scientists can have a discussion about the best way to manage it in the long run. 

[Joshuwarr]

Just now, xxialac said:

Disappointing? I thought this was absolutely brilliant news!

Agreed! My assumption was it would have to be every year!

[stuartbert two hats]

7 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

Disappointing- wonder if it will be the same for the Oxford vaccine, and we essentially have to re-vaccinate every year or two

 

Moderna CEO says vaccine likely to protect for "couple of years"

Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine is likely to offer protection of up to a couple of years, its chief executive has said, even though more data is still needed to make a definitive assessment.

The US biotech company, which stunned the world last year by coming up with a vaccine against the disease caused by the coronavirus in just a few weeks, received approval for its shot from the European commission on Wednesday.

Given vaccines development and pharmacovigilance usually requires years, the protection duration of Covid-19 shots is a lingering question for scientists and regulators.

“The nightmare scenario that was described in the media in the spring with a vaccine only working a month or two is, I think, out of the window,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said. “The antibody decay generated by the vaccine in humans goes down very slowly [...] We believe there will be protection potentially for a couple of years.”

Bancel added his company was about to prove its vaccine would also be effective against variants of the coronavirus seen in Britain and South Africa.

Scientists have said newly developed vaccines should be equally effective against both variants.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jan/07/coronavirus-live-news-england-sees-record-hospitalisations-arizona-is-covid-hot-spot-of-the-world?page=with:block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721#block-5ff6c59c8f081f3586ba6721

Worth noting that about two years is ideal, commercially speaking.

[eFestivals]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Worth noting that about two years is ideal, commercially speaking.

well spotted. 🙂 

Anyway, once covid-19 is no longer novel, will it be particularly dangerous? There's a decent chance that it won't be.

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, mazola said:

I can chip in on this as I'm an outreach officer for an East London local authority, and have been assisting in quite a few applications recently. Not sure if it's nation wide (I'm pretty sure it is) but there is a discretionary system set up at our council where we can still award the T&T payment to people who satisfy all the criteria except for being in receipt of a relevant benefit, so it is definitely worth contacting the council.

If you are unsuccessful with the T&T claim, you can also apply for a Hardship/Individual Assistance payment which is a separate fund for people who are struggling financially due to Covid.

The whole system is a bit of a shambles to be honest, although not through any fault of the councils. I know my council was funded £40,000 to run the scheme (this is for costs not the actual payments) which may sound like a lot but in our case we have had 5 people working full time on it since it was introduced in September, and the whole scheme had to be up and running within a couple of days of us being informed we had to deliver it. We were basically given the qualifying criteria for the payment, but had to set up the claim process, design forms etc from scratch. In man hours alone we have already burnt through the money we have been funded to facilitate it, plus the disruption of taking staff away from their normal work to run the scheme.

last week alone we received nearly 400 applications

thanks .... ive been informed by a colleague that im off on full pay from day 1  which is good news if not I will try and make a claim ...... although im awaiting for confirmation from my boss .... ( would have thought he might have known the answer )  test ordered have gone for postal as it means im out less  .... wait and see time now fingers crossed too 🙂 

[SheffJeff]

I'm a bit surprised that week 2 vaccinations (303,423) were half of week 1 (610,218).  Do we think this is down to Christmas or vaccine availability?  Not being a kill joy, nearly a million vaccinations is great but the numbers just seem like they should be the opposite way round. 

[Mr.Tease]

8 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Disappointing? I thought this was absolutely brilliant news!

I was hoping for long term/life time immunity- probably unrealistic! 

[Guest]

29 minutes ago, SheffJeff said:

I'm a bit surprised that week 2 vaccinations (303,423) were half of week 1 (610,218).  Do we think this is down to Christmas or vaccine availability?  Not being a kill joy, nearly a million vaccinations is great but the numbers just seem like they should be the opposite way round. 

Probably a little bit of the Christmas break I think. I think taking a view of the numbers as they go from this week will give us a true trend of how things are going. 

[stuartbert two hats]

32 minutes ago, SheffJeff said:

I'm a bit surprised that week 2 vaccinations (303,423) were half of week 1 (610,218).  Do we think this is down to Christmas or vaccine availability?  Not being a kill joy, nearly a million vaccinations is great but the numbers just seem like they should be the opposite way round. 

Aren't they first dose numbers?  Or are they all?

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

Probably a little bit of the Christmas break I think. I think taking a view of the numbers as they go from this week will give us a true trend of how things are going. 

Might they also have got a bit low on vaccine ? With just the delivery of Pfizer ? Oxford hadn’t come into play until a few days ago ... 

[zahidf]

3 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Aren't they first dose numbers?  Or are they all?

First dose. 20k had second doses. 

Its... average but significant ramping up from next Monday it seems