Seemed reasonable enough, didn’t watch it all on either Facebook or the twitter feed it came up on though.
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Really sort of a tilting at windmills argument, it just won’t happen. A shift in the mix, perhaps. It is a clear ‘tragedy of the commons’ problem. If we cannot fix a slow-moving one like climate change, we certainly won’t resolve one that is happening at this speed and directly killing people.
More chance of Mourinho playing open and expansive football against a Gerrard managed United.
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One query on this is the risk of a vaccine resistant strain developing within a partially vaccinated country? Is that a risk?
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Listened to the lead on the Oxford vaccine interviewed on 5 live a few weeks ago. She was quite sure that mildly different strains would still be covered and they saw no reason (yet) to build version 1.1 However because they had the base vaccine and it was proven, modifications would be much easier.
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thats what i read…
im sure it was refering to the gap between first and second jabs though… but its obviously has to be a consideration.
i know the WHO are not everyones favorite organisation, but you’d imagine that theyd at least have this one right.
That’s encouraging to hear.
I can understand their view from a keeping short term death numbers down. What I don’t understand is the longer term risks if that policy.
So I couldn’t 100% say whether that’s a good thing or not. I presume they’ve done their science and we have to trust it.
Not sure the UK government would agree to it though. Potential for longer lockdowns maybe?
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The delay strategy which seems to lack any real research has raised concerns with the medical fraternity as it could actually cause more problems down the road with very low immunisation rates and more risk of escape mutations. Unsurprising that Johnston went for the delay option purely for the better media headlines on a rolling basis with more people jabbed in the UK than anywhere else, banging the lecturn while bumbling out his ‘world beating’ mantra, all the while putting many more thousands of lives at risk. Mind boggling when you consider that after the complete bollocks he has made of the management of the pandemic so far, giving the UK a word beating death rate, he could have actually done some good with the vaccines with the head start the the UK had with the early MHRA vaccine approvals.
Some commented previously that the only hope that the UK public had was to get vaccinated to protect themselves from Johnston’s incompetence. Seems like he might actually fuck that up too for many to feed his own need for short term praise.
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Well technically the EU has had more people jabbed than the UK. 9.3m vs 7.8m (1)
9.69m to 8.38m.
That gap should continue to widen because the EU is vaccinating 508,928 per day as at 29 January whereas the UK is only doing 361,343 as at the same date.
Worth noting that extending the period between doses wasn’t Johnson’s idea but the recommendation of all four chief medical officers of the constituent parts of the UK. It’s also been backed outside of the UK too, with some countries also extending the period in an effort to get as many with a base level of protection as possible
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This quote made me laugh this morning:
“You know you have fucked up on an epic scale when Sinn Féin, the DUP and the Archbishop of Canterbury are united in condemning you,” an EU source conceded of the extraordinary events that soon transpired.
First shipment of the Indian-manufactured AZ vaccine arrived in South Africa. Notable how long ago the SII began working on production. Must be a finicky process with a good deal of localization, but they are now well up the yield curve as well.
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Or maybe not. The UK has significantly ramped up its vaccinations.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1355877861211697156
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That seems likely to be from steady improvement on their cycle, having given the EU a number they were absolutely certain they could deliver.
Best case, they reach the yields shown in the UK and India in record time.
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Yes, AZ must be thinking, “will you stop being grandstanding idiots. We’re doing our best and will give you as much as we can. You know, best reasonable efforts.”
This also amused me…
Can only see that as recognition that there’s no automatic claim on doses produced in the UK. Maybe her and her team have finally read and understood what the contract says?
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