Apparently Belgian made vaccine’s are bett… Wait a minute.
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That’s the Pfizer vaccine (US/German). The British vaccine is made by AstraZeneca and has not yet been approved.
The UK regulator is simply the first regulator to approve a vaccine for use (the Pfizer one).
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Slightly off topic - but could you recommend a good book/website for layman who isn’t particularly good with maths but is interested in learning about Bayes Theorem & Probability?
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Yes, about being the first country to approve a vaccine for use. That was all it was.
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I couldn’t find Ireland on their interactive graph. I thought we would be considering we have had a lot of cases, more per capita than some who are on their graph. Do you have any info on if we have a higher than usual rate which can possibly be attributed to covid.
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You’re right, I just looked and they don’t appear to have data from Ireland. Odd.
This website may have it
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Not sure whether I should get one of these 
I`m getting complaints about using the cattle prod.
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Reminder: Topic thread is The Coronaviris Pandemic, not @cynicaloldgit and @Kopstar have a bloody tendious back and forth of one liners, insults and digs.
In other news, I’ve just spent my five minutes on a morning before school run deleting posts instead of reading about how boss Liverpool are at the footy, so thanks for that 
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Whatever you think about the government, the response to the pandemic or the approval of this vaccine, for the sake of the world and for this grandma, life can slowly return to more familiar tones for us.
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Take the phone off the hook, log out of social media, send the missus and kids of to her parents, load FM21 and you’ve got a sensational night 
Thanks, but I never get hangovers.
Back to coronavirus: being a misanthrope, I’m very disappointed that it hasn’t killed more people.
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For those saying he has no feelings hang your heads in shame.
“Matt Hancock breaks down in tears on GMB”
Looks more like he’s laughing for fooling us.
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Yeah I heard that rumour
9 million tested in 48 hours or some such
Just quickly do the math on the logistics… say, each testing station processes 10k tests, … that’s a lot of testing stations that just happened to be mobilisedar short notice…
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He’s crying because his wife forgot to register that new Specialist -70 degrees Celsius refrigerated storage company in the Cayman Islands.
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Okay, a slightly different perspective here. How much social contact is the grandma actually going to have? She isn’t going out shopping, dancing, sightseeing or holidaying all that often. The risk of her catching it is from people coming into her home that being care staff and relatives etc. The care staff are probably getting a shot so that vector is closed off. So that leaves relatives and people coming to visit who might not have been vaccinated and could be infectious. The virus has devastated care homes, older people and people with comorbidities but it has also proved deadly to people in none of those categories.
Would it not be better to roll out the vaccine to people who are more likely to spread the disease, that being people who are active in society and have jobs, lives, school runs, train trips, taxi fares etc than necessarily those most at risk who might not be exposing themselves or spreading the virus.
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I’m not sure but I think we don’t know what effect the vaccine has on someone’s ability to spread the virus.
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The older more vulnerable population has had to self isolate (or they were supposed to) for months. They haven’t been able to have visitors. They’ve been cut off.
I’m absolutely fine with them and other vulnerable children and adults, as well as front line health carers, getting the vaccine first so that they can finally have some much needed outside contact.
There are heartbreaking stories of older people and vulnerable children not being able to have physical contact with parents, siblings and children since March.
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Im not against that at all. Everyone deserves to be what makes us human. What I mean is that wouldn’t vaccinating the general active population of people more likely to spread the virus make it safer for everyone, including the high risk categories, as in theory the prevalence of the virus should decrease.
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