Here he is!
I think I’m happy to oblige.
I find this actually quite funny…
He’s right. Derbyshire Dales recorded the highest amount of positive cases per 100,000
And the reason?
Sudbury Prison.
Outbreaks are the new breakouts.
Does that mean vaccination, or are they going to punch us all?
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In a smaller trial conducted in South Africa – where a more contagious variant is widely circulating, the Novavax vaccine was 55% effective, based on people without HIV but still fully prevented severe illness.
I’m interested in seeing the base SA trial data. 4400 people involved but what was the age breakdown? I also note they break the 50% efficacy baseline that’s often been talked about as the minimum expected , for the SA variant, only by excluding one group with co-morbidities (HIV). Is this an adenovirus based vaccine like AZ or mRNA? I also couldn’t quite understand if it prevented severe disease across all participants or whether it was excluding the data from the HIV group.
Still great news that another vaccine is getting closer to rollout.
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It’s unlike AZ and the mRNA vaccines in that it’s a protein-based vaccine that, I think, attacks the whole virus (rather than just the spikes).
IIRC 180 million doses are going to be made in Middlesbrough.
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This is very odd. The Dutch factory producing the AZ vaccine has not had regulatory approval from the EMA. Therefore the millions of doses they have produced have not been delivered.
Can’t say at this point if fault lies with AZ, the contractor Halix, the EMA or all three.
If there is any legal action, what has occurred with this factory (one of the main sites of EU manufacturing ) will be important.
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I don’t know why but AstraZeneca is fucking with the EU. All I’ve been reading over here in the Netherlands is that we are getting less than agreed upon.
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It really isn’t. Why the fuck would it?
However, it’s certainly being portrayed that way and there’s definitely a reason for that.
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So why are they constantly delivery less than agreed upon, do they do that to the UK and US too?
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Because of production issues in their EU plants, as they’ve said. And yes, they were slightly short of their agreed supplies to the UK. The US FDA hasn’t yet given AZ approval so not relevant.
Pfizer and Moderna have also delivered less than is estimated in their contracts. Where’s the fume towards them? 
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They are more than slightly short to the EU and yes Biding is sitting on 30m doses.
To me, it is a company that sells but don’t deliver what they promise, well not to the EU and Netherlands anyway. A company that is almost impossible to make engagements with because they chance their stands every week according to the responsible Dutch Home Secretary.
It’s weird that since the agreement was published, in full, I haven’t seen a single legal expert agree with the EC’s contention that AZ are in breach of their agreement.
Plenty of politicians still peddling that line though.
I found this a good writeup of why the UK were prioritised:
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I heard about PoliticalEuro,
Are they centre left, centr right or in the middle in their news information?
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Slightly right of centre, imo.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the UK administers more than 4m doses this week. After the drop off in supply, I think we’re now sitting on more than 10 million doses. The next few weeks there should be a surge in numbers getting jabs.
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