That’s definitely good news. The more countries that can start to close the gap on the UK’s lead the better.
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What exactly does the current lock down involve? Talking to my parents, it doesnt seem that there is too much they’re not currently doing.
Yeah, it’s easier to say what’s not allowed and that’s basically indoor events where social distancing is impractical.
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4 week extension to the 21st to be announced tomorrow. Feeling very down
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It’s going to piss off a lot of people, but I can understand the idea beind this. Case numbers and hospital admittions going up very quickly in the last week or 2, and whilst they say that having both shots does make a big difference, at this point, there are too many not yet having had their 2nd shot to not take this action.
Better to do it now, rather than wait and have to take a longer/more restrictive lockdown later on.
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I think the easing delay makes sense just to get 2 weeks more of data on whether the link between cases and hospitalisations is broken. When I look at the USA data, that fills me with hope, but I can see our hospitalisation rate here in the UK just creeping up again, and I don’t think the Delta variant is widely spread across the pond as it is here. I expect the case numbers to start climbing quite steeply over the next couple of weeks in the UK. Case rate per 100,000 has doubled in a week, hospital admissions are just starting to increase after being flatlined for like a month but that increase is only showing in a few days of data. Are these anomalies? Or are we starting to see an upward trend? How does the government decide what hospitalisation rate is acceptable?
I personally don’t see things unfolding in the next few months being close to the UK third wave in terms of stress on the NHS. Summer + School holidays + vaccinations will see to that. But what if the cases are high and remain high into Autumn which will probably be the case? The main tools used to stop the virus in its tracks are lockdowns and restrictions, and I don’t think we will be returning there in the UK soon if the vaccinations remain even semi-effective, and the evidence is that they do far more than that. So I expect the case data to start to show a big hump instead of a sharp peak. We just need to hope that the daily hospitalisations graph doesn’t show similar.
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I thought I would share my 1st Pfizer jab experience.
Was Jabbed around 14hr 40 thursday all went well (just a tiny prick as the needle went through the epiderm?). By 20hr 00 started feeling pain when moving arm, jab site too sensitive to touch (I’m a wimp) by bed time pain was getting annoying. Woke up and didn’t want to move my arm in some directions due to pain (quite bad actually) given up completely on touching the jab site. Lasted the day the next morning next to nothing and back to normal. No other noticeable side effects (apparently that is normal with the Pfizer jab the other side effects come with the 2nd jab if at all).
Anyway some agressive shit in the formulation but nothing to worry about, yet.
Just thought I’d mention it as I don’t recall seeing anyone say so.
Of course not everyone ‘suffers’ the same but it’s nice and comforting to exchange experiences.
EDIT: Perhaps also worth mentionning that I had no noticeble bruising or reddening around the jab site. Just pain which I didn’t take anything for (the doctor did mention I might need to use pain killers but i hate such things (wait until morphine is required is my motto (except for tooth ache, I need to eat) also it was the weekend so I didn’t need to use my arm.
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Good to hear you got through with no major problem.
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I only had arm pain that got pretty bad 12 hours later but not bad enough to disrupt my sleep and nothing else to the point I am wondering whether my immune system is so bad that its not fighting back 
But I heard from my circle who took Pfizer that the first dose is pretty much ok but the 2nd dose had varying degrees of more pronounced side effects…so I will get it in a few weeks time…
We have really outdone ourselves last week, our goal was 1.448.000 jabs what was a record anyway and they ended with 1.824.319 vaccinations. I’ve been critical about the start-up but they are doing extremely well now and you see the results.
Only 899 tested positive yesterday a month ago it was between 4 and 5 thousand on a normal day. Fewer people in hospital and things are opening again step by step. 
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As culpable as Fauci surely.
But some of her most notable findings have since drawn the heaviest scrutiny. In recent years, Shi began experimenting on bat coronaviruses by genetically modifying them to see how they behave.
In 2017, she and her colleagues at the Wuhan lab published a paper about an experiment in which they created new hybrid bat coronaviruses by mixing and matching parts of several existing ones — including at least one that was nearly transmissible to humans …
I felt as if someone had hit me on the head repeatedly at the end of a marathon after the second Biontech jab. 
Just to give you something to potentially look forward to. 
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Is the extension of lockdown due to the recent rise in number of infections?
News from Germany - New infections yesterday 652, 7 day average 1,926 (under 2,000!), was 18,000 at the beginning of May.
New infections per 100,000 15.5, R Value (Infections per infected person) 0.77
Very good numbers. Not sure how much Delta we have here though. Race still on to vaccinate, only 25% fully vaxxed up to now, nearly 50% one jab.
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