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Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
I think it was the latter, wasn't it. That, unlike Ox-AZ, Pfizer and probably Moderna too, which give substantial protection a few weeks after the first jab, Sinopharm requires both jabs and then a few weeks for a roughly equivalent level of effectiveness.
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Originally posted by Balderdasha View PostWorth noting that 60% of the vaccinations administered in the Seychelles were Chinese Sinopharm vaccinations, and there have been quite varied reports on how effective that vaccination is.
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Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Post
Turkey is also heavily reliant on this, I wonder if this explains their current surge in cases?
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My husband and I originally booked our vaccination appointments online as we were in the eligible categories but no-one had contacted us yet. We booked both first and second appointments, with the second appointment about 12 weeks after the first. Then the doctor's surgery contacted my husband to offer him a first appointment two weeks earlier and at a closer location. So he accepted that and cancelled the original appointments. Now though, he has heard nothing about booking his second appointment. I rang the surgery yesterday to query this and the receptionist could only tell me that they will contact him "within 16 weeks of his first appointment".
So, it seems that the UK has extended the time between vaccines again, from an initial three weeks, first to 12 weeks, and now to 16 weeks. I haven't seen this latest extension announced anywhere. Is it likely to be due to supply troubles?
I still have my second appointment booked for early June so it looks like I might end up with both vaccines before my husband.
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Worldwide, we have now reached 2% of the world's population confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19. Which tells me that this pandemic is far from over. We need to vaccinate as fast as possible. The country with the highest recorded infection rate so far is Andorra where 17.2% of the population has tested positive for Covid-19. If the world reached an infection rate of 17.2%, that would mean 1.358 billion individuals testing positive for Covid-19. We do not have the health infrastructure to cope with that.
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And here we go, IHME has begun modelling excess deaths and is displaying it in their projections:
http://www.healthdata.org/special-an...ovid-19-deaths
http://www.healthdata.org/covid/vide...d-19-model-run
Somebody smarter than me take a look.
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Yes, thanks Matt.
Just skimmed it but it highlights vast under-reporting of COVID deaths in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. Russia is believed to have 5 to 6 times as many deaths as reported but Japan is more like 10 times! Egypt and Kazakhstan even worse.
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Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post
So, it seems that the UK has extended the time between vaccines again, from an initial three weeks, first to 12 weeks, and now to 16 weeks. I haven't seen this latest extension announced anywhere. Is it likely to be due to supply troubles?
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Originally posted by Balderdasha View PostIndia has exceeded 4,000 deaths attributed to Covid-19 today for the first time (exact figures won't be available until later today).
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The current USA official death toll from Covid-19 of 594,911 is now higher than the population of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Or higher than the population of the state of Wyoming. Take your pick.Last edited by Balderdasha; 08-05-2021, 13:14.
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Originally posted by Balderdasha View PostThe current USA official death toll from Covid-19 of 594,911 is now higher than the population of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Or higher than the population of the state of Wyoming. Or higher than the population of Turkmenistan, the country. Take your pick.
Turkmenistan has a population of over 6m.
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That change in WHO advice seemed so belated, too. It seemed apparent from all the anecdata very early that there was almost no spread from fomites or outdoors (and all the superspreader events seemed to involve talking loudly and singing). Yet nobody wanted to release official data on how many recorded outdoor cases there were, I think out of fear that it would get misused.
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Dutch scientists teach bees to smell coronavirus - when they do so, they stick their tongues out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/scie...ections-2021-5
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