Post vaccine contagion
Prof Jonathan Van-Tam
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55784199
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/23/exclusive-five-million-vaccinated-britons-told-carry-have-virus/
Could still pass the virus on to others
Should continue following all rules, zero behavioural change
Carry on as if you have the virus
You could still be spreading the virus
Do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission
No vaccine has ever been 100% effective
Possible to contract the virus, 2 to 3 weeks after vaccination
Better to allow at least three weeks in older people
Transmission possible after 2 doses
British Medical Association
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
Twelve weeks policy, difficult to justify
Reduced gap to six weeks
Prof Van-Tam
What none of these will tell me is:
who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who’s already had one dose can get a second?
150 at London, wedding
Stamford Hill, Thursday
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/22/organisers-of-london-wedding-attended-by-hundreds-face-covid-fine
Guests fled when the police arrived
Organisers, £10,000 fine
School principal died in April from CoViD
Another UK disgrace
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55783042
North Wales
Some council staff booked vaccine appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.
Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, priority list
Residents in care homes for older adults and their carers
80-year-olds and over and frontline health and social care workers
75-year-olds and over
70-year-olds and over and clinically vulnerable individuals
65-year-olds and over
16- to 64-year-olds with serious health problems
60-year-olds and over
55-year-olds and over
50-year-olds and over
Europe, serious vaccine supply issues
Joint vaccine strategy aimed to ensure equitable access across the bloc
Pfizer BioNTech
EU has ordered 600 million doses from
Pfizer, deliveries down 50% to some EU countries this week
Work to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant
Areas in Germany, Poland and Italy have suspended first jabs
Vaccinations, medics, Madrid stopped
Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
EU has ordered 300m
No EMA approval as yet
In the first quarter, deliveries 80m down to 31m
A cut of 60%
Moderna vaccine
Approved 6th January
Ordered 160m
Delivered between now and September
80 million people of 448 million EU citizens
Some should be trickling in now
Stella Kyriakides, the EU’s Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
we are all in this together and united
Hungary
Bought Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine
Which does not have EMA approval
Large amounts, three tranches
Germany
Lockdown since mid-December
Bilateral deal with Pfizer BioNTech for additional 30 m doses
Glaxo Smith Kline / Sanofi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/gsk-sanofi-covid-vaccine-delayed-end-next-year
Returned to phase 2 after poor response in over 50s
Now due for last quarter of 2012
Netherlands
Curfew, 9pm to 4.30 am
Portugal
Increased figures look like UK variant has arrived
Brail
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/23/anger-boils-over-brazil-begins-rollout-200-million-covid-vaccine
Brazilian variant
Arriving Frankfurt from Brazil
Thursday, asymptomatic
Diagnosed by PCR
India
Makes 60% of the world vaccines
Covishield (Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine)
Myanmar, 1.5 million doses
Bharat Biotech, 24 years experience, 16 vaccines, exports to 123 countries
Covishield, Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, 50 million doses a month
India, EUA, Covaxin
An inactivated dead vaccine
Isolated by India’s National Institute of Virology
Storage, 2 – 8OC
Two shots, 4 weeks apart
restricted use in emergency situations in public interest as an abundant precaution,
in clinical trial mode, especially in the context of infection by mutant strains
unmet medical needs of serious and life-threatening diseases in the country
Efficacy data by February
Prices per dose
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55748124
Oxford AZ, £3
Moderna NIH, £25
Pfizer BioNTech, £15
Gamaleys, Sputnic V, £7.50
Global vaccine tracker
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
UK vaccine tracker
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations
US vaccine tracker
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations
Europe vaccine tracker
https://data.spectator.co.uk/city/vaccines
Does homeopathy have a role in preventing and treating CoViD?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/24/homeopaths-have-crossed-line-peddling-dangerous-vaccine-myths/
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