Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

It may well be the current vaccines won't protect well enough vs. the SA variant. But it's still got to be better than no protection whatsoever.

And they can work on boosters in the meantime.

Even the AZ, they feel confident that it would protect against severe disease.

 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday reported a 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine in the country’s biggest study to date.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-israel-vaccine-idUSKBN2AE0Q0

 

Yes Israel's daily infection rates are still high.

Supposedly they're now encountering more resistance as they try to vaccinate the younger groups -- which are probably the biggest sources of transmission.

 

The follow-up tweets really finish the joke

 

numbers dont add up, at the time of the data just north of 2 million ppl were dead, now if they averaged 16 years then thats more than 21 million years

 

Must be because they are counting 81 countries, not the whole world.

 

Yes, it took that long for me to reach that part of the article (I was busy; I'm not that slow, really!).

 

Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine | News | The Times

Great...

 

OK ta, still it seems a bit too high.
eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States
so over half the deaths are from ppl aged 75+, 80% of the deaths are ppl aged 65+
(Sure theres ppl who died at an earlier age) I just dont think the average would be an extra 16 years

 

So are some Brits. They refer to the Pfizer vaccine as the "posh one" and the AZ vaccine as the "English one."

 

Yes, stupidity is universal! I've read that some people over here are insisting on receiving the 'British' vaccine when offered Pfizer. Stupidity from both sides of the coin.

 

In Sweden >90% of the people who died of Covid are over 70 years old.

 

‘Minister for Loneliness’ sounds like the title of a Police or Sting song.

 

Maybe a followup to "Don't stand so close to me".

 

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