Post vaccination contagion
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6KwvxCxqqA 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/