Thread: Corona Virus

NZ halts India arrivals after the new COVID case.

NZ suspends India arrivals amid new coronavirus case (thenewdaily.com.au)

spent all day booking people for tomorrows Covid vaccines. It has to be 10 at a time! The news tonight means some of the people I booked had to be cancelled (after 9pm) Now needed to fill up several before 9 to 10 am in the morning. I think I need a drink

Under 50s news for No toAstrazeneca via media was a little bit of a surprise way to find out. Bet we are not the only place now with dozens booked in with hole in the groups of 10. Joy o joy.

14 hours ago it was safe"COVID live updates: PM announces vaccine rollout shake-up over AstraZeneca blood clot concerns - ABC News"

Now its "Federal health authorities have announced the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine should be administered to adults aged under 50 instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine. "

Guess who is going to get hundreds of bloody phone calls re the vaccine we do not have again! Might turn the phones off for the day.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

spent all day booking people for tomorrows Covid vaccines. It has to be 10 at a time! The news tonight means some of the people I booked had to be cancelled (after 9pm) Now needed to fill up several before 9 to 10 am in the morning. I think I need a drink

Under 50s news for No toAstrazeneca via media was a little bit of a surprise way to find out. Bet we are not the only place now with dozens booked in with hole in the groups of 10. Joy o joy.

14 hours ago it was safe"COVID live updates: PM announces vaccine rollout shake-up over AstraZeneca blood clot concerns - ABC News"

Now its "Federal health authorities have announced the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine should be administered to adults aged under 50 instead of the AstraZeneca vaccine. "

Guess who is going to get hundreds of bloody phone calls re the vaccine we do not have again! Might turn the phones off for the day.

Something to make your day. Two new COVID variants have been found in India, it seems the virus has mutated to another level.

Both these mutations are concerning because they are located in a key portion of the virus – the spike protein – that it uses to penetrate human cells. Spike proteins attach via a “receptor binding domain”, meaning the virus can attach to receptors in our cells.
These new mutations include changes to the spike protein that make it a “better fit” for human cells. This means the virus can gain entry more easily and multiply faster. Given what we have seen with other similar mutations, it might also make it harder for our immune system to recognise the virus due to its slightly different shape. This means our immune system may not be able to recognise the virus as something it has to produce antibodies against.


What's the new coronavirus variant in India and how should it change their COVID response? (theconversation.com)

woah nelly!

AstraZeneca vaccine dumped for people under 50 in Australia!

Fortunately, the covid situation in Australia is good enough that the delay in vaccinations that will result from this is not going to have major issues - unless you happen to be involved in industries that depend on international travel.

Worth pointing out that the risk from blood clotting with the Astra Zeneca vaccine is low - less than 100 cases in the UK with over twenty million doses administered or 0.0005%. (incidence of blood clotting from this vaccine is about 0.1% of the rate of blood clotting from oral contraceptives)

Some numbers to compare with these figures - the UK has had over four million cases, and nearly 127,000 deaths, which means the probability of dying from Covid19 if you catch it is 3.175% or overall (including your risk of infection) 0.1863%

So to put it in perspective, for the UK, your probability of getting blood clotting (only about 20% of cases fatal) from this vaccine is 0.27% of you chance of getting Covid 19 and dying from it.

I have used figures from the UK because they have administered a lot of doses and keep fairly good statistics, and have a similar standard health system to here. Figures are from Worldometer and news items about the incidence of blood clotting for Astra Zeneca vaccine.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Fortunately, the covid situation in Australia is good enough that the delay in vaccinations that will result from this is not going to have major issues - unless you happen to be involved in industries that depend on international travel.

Worth pointing out that the risk from blood clotting with the Astra Zeneca vaccine is low - less than 100 cases in the UK with over twenty million doses administered or 0.0005%. (incidence of blood clotting from this vaccine is about 0.1% of the rate of blood clotting from oral contraceptives)

Some numbers to compare with these figures - the UK has had over four million cases, and nearly 127,000 deaths, which means the probability of dying from Covid19 if you catch it is 3.175% or overall (including your risk of infection) 0.1863%

So to put it in perspective, for the UK, your probability of getting blood clotting (only about 20% of cases fatal) from this vaccine is 0.27% of you chance of getting Covid 19 and dying from it.

I have used figures from the UK because they have administered a lot of doses and keep fairly good statistics, and have a similar standard health system to here. Figures are from Worldometer and news items about the incidence of blood clotting for Astra Zeneca vaccine.

Its odd that the higher risk long haul flight and birth control pills are a non issue while the Astrazeneca I had last week is. The entire world assumed it was a China only issue in Feb. 2020. Its not and we are going to see more of it still. The delay caused by this is not a major issue right now. It may be soon. I am not a crystal ball of course. With Gastro and cold and flu cases picking up rapidly I wonder how long we keep our Zero to very low cases.

Gastro, cold and flu cases increasing probably reflects decreasing observation of (and relaxation of) rules imposed to reduce covid transmission, but do not mean that there will be any covid outbreaks unless there are quarantine lapses. These are inevitable, but we seem to be able to catch and control them reasonably well thanks to widespread testing and surveillance of sewage. These controls also let us know that there is virtually no virus circulating, despite rumors to the contrary. With how infectious this virus is, any circulating cases would rapidly show up as an outbreak, given the level of surveillance here.

Humans are pretty bad at assessing relative risk. The Yellow fever vaccine has a 1 in 250,000 chance of a severe reaction and yet it is compulsory to have a vaccination certificate to travel to affected areas or return to Australia.

The Government is caught between a rock and a hard place given our current level of community infection. If one person died due to the vaccine there would be an uproar, its a different situation when many are dying daily from coronavirus.

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