When will this shit end?

[Chapple12345]

18 minutes ago, JB15 said:

Are the U.K. under playing how far ahead we are with the vaccinations so they don’t get into a war of words with the EU again? Or is it under promising and over delivering?

 

Either way, my dad and step dad were jabbed last weekend slightly earlier than the government announcement to go to 65-69, and my soon to be mother and father in law are being jabbed tomorrow, one of them is in the 60-64 group

Glad to hear about your family being jabbed 🙂

In all honesty I think it's more under promising and over delivering, the government will want to showcase how well the programme is going and a 2 fingers to the EU by showing so wouldnt shy away from it 

[Toilet Duck]

17 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

Ah so their booster isn't within a certain timeframe? Surely the same here if so, one dose for younger people ASAP. 

When does UK expect delivery does anyone know? Assuming approval won't be far off 

Currently there is no booster, it’s one shot and done (though I suspect when they get their 2 shot regimen data back it’ll push their efficacy up closer to the others, hence a booster may be offered at a later date, and since its genetic vaccine, the booster could even be based on newer variants). As it stands they have applied to the FDA and now the EMA...haven’t put in their application to the MHRA yet, but it can’t be far off. EMA expecting to approve by the middle of March (possibly sooner) with deliveries straight away (EU has 400m ordered, so at 1 shot, almost enough to do everyone...it’ll be used for lower risk individuals though, Pfizer and Moderna are still the ones being used for most vulnerable)...

[Guest]

Interesting thread on the awarding of COVID contracts to a company that are linked to Dominic Cummings.

 

 

[Paul ™]

2 hours ago, xxialac said:

CTM seem pretty dodgy. They have mopped up the contract both for the hotel quarantine and for the Covid booking.

At the moment you can't get through to them, the day 2 tests are not arriving in time for day 2 and last night you couldn't book the tests at all - this was the message shown.

 

I had to phone them on Friday, got some girl who had no idea how to answer my query, spoke to someone else and then eventually tried to get her manager and surprisingly the call got disconnected...

1 hour ago, Homer said:

Someone tell @crazyfool1that he needs to change the location for the in person virtual meet to Goa.

19 of us going in November, should be a crazy meet! 

1 hour ago, Simsy said:

Got back at Easter, so still had quite a bit of lockdown here. Indian lockdown was more strict - could only go outside to get food or for medical treatment, so we spent a lot of time watching netflix and eating takeaway.

It's funny looking back at my Google maps timeline, starts off like "I'm traveling around the world, my life's so exciting" and suddenly becomes "I haven't been outside for several days"!

Yeah we were in the Philippines from mid January for 5 weeks and whilst there was no lockdown, it was obvious things were going pear shaped... 70% of their tourists are from China

[zahidf]

 

[Leyrulion]

32 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

I'm all here for slowly creeping that deadline date earlier. Everyone having second dose by August means 1st doses for all by may.

[stuartbert two hats]

37 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

The question on everyone's lips, what would it take for us to "need to"?

[aj6658]

2 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

I'm all here for slowly creeping that deadline date earlier. Everyone having second dose by August means 1st doses for all by may.

Could be on the cards - We have hit 3m a week. Supply is only going to get stronger and more stable and we have Moderna coming in a couple of months.

We should be looking at 4m-5m a week by beginning of April so around 16-20 million a month vaccinated.

[Memory Man]

I was, at age 33 and with no medical conditions flabbergasted to be invited for a first dose which i will get at the end of February. Based in leeds.

apparently the local medical centre they are being administered from is flying through them but even still it feels odd to essentially have been picked at random. There is no rhyme or reason it seems. Wife at same address and same Dr’s not heard.

My dad aged 65 in west yorks has had his so they're going pretty well in these parts. Guess theyre on with 60-65 cohort at present. But then also a smattering of anyone at random too. 

[dotdash79]

If you have been invited for a vaccine the new groups have been selected using data on the covid calculator. 
 

you can find out your score here. https://qcovid.org/Calculation
 

I was 38 out of 100

[Memory Man]

19/100. Makes a mockery of it really but we will all be getting it soon enough i guess!

[zahidf]

 

[zahidf]

Spain hopes the introduction of vaccination passports combined with pre-travel Covid-19 testing would allow British tourists to return to Spanish destinations this summer, a tourism ministry source told Reuters.

We support the vaccination certificate but not as the only way to recuperate mobility, rather, as one of the means within a portfolio of measures including social distancing, pre-travel tests, mask-wearing.

The government has no plans to introduce quarantines on foreign visitors, and was also counting on a wider agreement to be hammered out between Europe and Britain to remove restrictions on non-essential travel, the official added.

[squirrelarmy]

18 minutes ago, dotdash79 said:

If you have been invited for a vaccine the new groups have been selected using data on the covid calculator. 
 

you can find out your score here. https://qcovid.org/Calculation
 

I was 38 out of 100

48 out of 100 but didn’t include my specific illness as one of the criteria so not sure if it can be relied on. 

[dotdash79]

7 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

48 out of 100 but didn’t include my specific illness as one of the criteria so not sure if it can be relied on. 

The data is still quite new, the other calculators they do have been years in development and fine tuning. 
 

qRisk is used by most GP’s to determine who to give statins to. 

[danmarks]

60 /100.  What do i win?

[zahidf]

Surely deaths would be VERY low at that stage? Why should we have restrictions with 1100 cases? What happened to stopping hospitals being overwhelmed?

[westholtschic]

I’m 83/100 !! 

[Mr.Tease]

1 minute ago, zahidf said:

Surely deaths would be VERY low at that stage? Why should we have restrictions with 1100 cases? What happened to stopping hospitals being overwhelmed?

I presume its to reduce the risk of vaccine resistant variants, at least until we vaccinate vs those

[zahidf]

Just now, Mr.Tease said:

I presume its to reduce the risk of vaccine resistant variants, at least until we vaccinate vs those

I think we need a lot more evidence for these variants to evade vaccines before we keep super damaging lockdowns in place 

[parsonjack]

66/100

Not overweight, no conditions....so almost solely based on age of 57.

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

39 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Would the population really accept this? Makes me incredibly uneasy. 

[fraybentos1]

6 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Surely deaths would be VERY low at that stage? Why should we have restrictions with 1100 cases? What happened to stopping hospitals being overwhelmed?

What's to say cases will even drop that low with schools reopening?

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

6 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Surely deaths would be VERY low at that stage? Why should we have restrictions with 1100 cases? What happened to stopping hospitals being overwhelmed?

When did we last have below 1000 cases a day? 

[zahidf]

2 minutes ago, RobertProsineckisLighter said:

When did we last have below 1000 cases a day? 

August!

The nerds are trying to keep us locked up as long as possible.