Coronavirus - Remain Calm. Do Not Panic

zizu Kilbane wrote: nvidic wrote: MayoMark wrote: nvidic wrote: MayoMark wrote: Pipkin wrote: Not good news for vaccine rollout: https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1352705954442317827?s=20 terrible news if confirmed.  It's not great but at the same time, it's less than 5% of the population those vaccines would've covered  Astra Zeneca? That was a substantial order I thought?  A 60% reduction for Ireland on the numbers in the tweet would be about 465,000 vaccines, two doses needed so 242,500 people, 4.7% of the population that would cover! Not ideal but it's not the end of the world either  4.7% of the population doesn't sound like a lot, buts its huge. This is pretty devastating. A semi normal summer is further away now because of this

Roberto Baggio wrote: Any anti-maskers watch the Late Late show tonight? First guest on her husband was fit and healthy 50 years old and died a few weeks ago after catching covid Would it not just be better putting the mask on lads? It really isn’t a lot to ask

Poor woman,very sad

[QUOTE=The GerK]It ain't as bad as feared when Vidic puts it like that. [/QUOTEYeah I was watching an interview with Scott Gotlieb, ex FDA commissioner during the week. He was saying that variants of the virus will be met with variants of the vaccine very quickly if neccessary. It wouldn't have to go back through the amoutn of clinical trials as first time out. It's like the flu jab that chanes a little every year. He also said that if there was a significant variant, that he could see a top up being required for people in the Autumn this year.

seanyshuffler wrote: I see Hungary are doing a solo run and ordering doses of Sputnik.  Question for people. If Ireland did the same would you take it if offered? I think I would.

As a relatively healthy 40+ yo I’m happy to wait in line for the more rigidly assessed / tested vaccine.

Edited by Dalymount79 - 23 Jan 2021 at 10:23am

Baldrick wrote: the new variant from the UK has a higher mortality rate it seems.  Not surprised by this. I have felt there was certainly more deaths recently of people in their 40s and 50s that didnt seem to be happening before.

Reports of a major fire in the Astra Zeneca Indian plant yesterday.  

ConorMac77 wrote: Baldrick wrote: Reports of a major fire in the Astra Zeneca Indian plant yesterday.   Heard about that but it wasn't in the part of the factory that's producing the c19 vaccine so production of it won't be affected.

wanderer wrote: Baldrick wrote: ConorMac77 wrote: Baldrick wrote: Reports of a major fire in the Astra Zeneca Indian plant yesterday.   Heard about that but it wasn't in the part of the factory that's producing the c19 vaccine so production of it won't be affected.  Have they said that production won’t be impacted or are you deducing that from the fire didn’t happen in that part of the factory  They've said production isn't impacted and that it was in a different part of the site. Statement from Serum institute was released shortly after

This thread isn't even a year old and we're up to 531 pages. Christ!

Edited by seanyshuffler - 23 Jan 2021 at 2:21pm