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I was genuinely amazed how close two metres is, really. It's not much beyond normal life when talking to people!
Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (291 Viewers)
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SBAndy
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I don’t think it’s too much to ask for people to be sensible about it for a little longer - thinking along the lines of the ‘restrictions’ of the summer last year. There does need to be some progress, though, with hospitality and leisure able to reopen, otherwise like has been said, what’s the point in getting everyone jabbed up?
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Exactly. I'm not asking for total lockdown, I'm just asking for people not to breathe in my face until I've been vaccinated!
Brighton Sky Blue
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Tell Mrs NW to stop snoring then
David O'Day
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Ferguson of Nervtag fame thinks we should be mostly in tiers 1 and 2 by May
Liquid Gold
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half a million in one day and closing in on 30%
shmmeee
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Saying on R4 this morning about how Pfizer will be slowing production to ramp up and how we’ll see numbers drop significantly for a bit.
Felt very smug that BSB had already told us that. Going to be important to remember when everyone inevitably freaks out about the drop in rate.
Felt very smug that BSB had already told us that. Going to be important to remember when everyone inevitably freaks out about the drop in rate.
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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Some uplifting news today. My parents live in a small village in Oxfordshire but the doctors surgery called her up and asked my mum if she wanted to have the vaccine today. She went straight away.
She's only 60, so it is really encouraging they have got that far down the list already.
Pissed my dad off though. He made a spreadsheet with all the vaccine figures and predicted they would get theirs at the end of March!
She's only 60, so it is really encouraging they have got that far down the list already.
Pissed my dad off though. He made a spreadsheet with all the vaccine figures and predicted they would get theirs at the end of March!
Sbarcher
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Did she have it at Islip?
fernandopartridge
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Is that right? I know they're refitting their factories but I thought we'd moved to giving the AZ vaccine at the moment
hill83
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Philosoraptor is your dad?
shmmeee
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Brighton Sky Blue
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We are continuing to give both but as that initial December jab programme was done with Pfizer, we have held back a set amount of these as second jabs are now coming due for this first group. We have ordered more of the AZ, but haven’t switched to using it exclusively.
Liquid Gold
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There's a public calculator to use .
Was telling me around mid April ,but hearing anecdotally of mid and lower sixties .
They have been saying there has been a lack of take up from 70-75 age group , which may have led to accelerating the age group below I guess.
Brylowes
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My mates mum 61 got a call yesterday afternoon at 4.05pm from her surgery telling her if she could make it there by 4.30pm she could receive her jab, she went straight away and on arrival met someone she knew and a handful of others that had received similar calls.
Turns out the doses were left over from the days scheduled appointments where people had cried off, seems they’ve started calling patients from a little further down the list and offering them the opportunity if they can get there at short notice.
This is in Suffolk bye the way.
Gotta be a good thing I would think.
fernandopartridge
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Seen loads of GPs on twitter saying similar. It's no coincidence the vaccination programme delivered by the NHS is successful and efficient whereas the privatised test and trace system isn't
Brylowes
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Early on in the vaccine rollout there were several reports circulating of unused doses being thrown away at the end of the day, which is criminal if true.
Hopefully this is one of the measures put in place to make sure that doesn’t happen anymore .
Sky Blue Pete
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50% of the crowd in Chennai
Do they not give a monkeys or have they got things so much better there?
Confused much
Do they not give a monkeys or have they got things so much better there?
Confused much
Sbarcher
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My wife was talking to her friend Sharon Peacock (bit of name dropping here!) yesterday. She said she will spend the rest of her working life tweaking vaccines to counter the many mutations that this coronavirus will produce. It will be something we will never properly eliminate but will need to learn to control.
Sky Blue Pete
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Very few masks either
Grendel
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Scientists there believe the virus is burning itself out
chiefdave
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They spoke about this on the Talksport commentary in the early hours. Chenai is in Tamil Nadu where they've been relaxing restrictions for weeks now. Technically they could have had a crowd for the 1st test but the change in rules to allow that came too late for them to sort the logistics out.
The population in that region is pretty much identical to the UK but their daily deaths are in single digits and cases have been below a 1,000 all but 2 days this year and have been under 500 for the last few days.
Sky Blue Pete
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It’s only 25 degrees or so
Another world completely - it’s as if nothing has or is happening
Another world completely - it’s as if nothing has or is happening
Grendel
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They believe pretty much that herd immunity on the original strain has been achieved in most states
clint van damme
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Just to be clear Pete, are you talking about Talk sport or Chennai?
Sick Boy
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COVID-19: Vaccine doses shouldn't be more than six weeks apart, scientist behind Pfizer-BioNTech jab says
Professor Ugur Sahin says the UK should provide evidence to back up its vaccination strategy.
Grendel
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Depends which sky article you pick
www.google.co.uk
COVID-19: UK 'vindicated' over 'brave' decision to delay second vaccine dose, WHO official says
Dr David Nabarro has thanked British scientists who "taught a great lesson for the rest of the world".
www.google.co.uk
Brighton Sky Blue
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Depends which sky article you pick
COVID-19: UK 'vindicated' over 'brave' decision to delay second vaccine dose, WHO official says
Dr David Nabarro has thanked British scientists who "taught a great lesson for the rest of the world".
I think the creator of the Pfizer vaccine is perhaps worth listening to on how best to administer it G
Brighton Sky Blue
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Surely they sussed him when he turned up?
Grendel
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Isn’t he the CEO?
Brighton Sky Blue
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You know what I mean. He will know far more about the best way to administer it
shmmeee
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He’s not without his own biases, if it doesn’t work it’ll harm confidence in his vaccine. Everyone’s guessing until we get the data in let’s be honest.