Thread: Covid Mk ll

"The Moderna Bivalent Spikevax vaccine will be added to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) on 6 October 2022. This will enable vaccination providers to report the administration of the vaccine when the rollout commences from 10 October 2022. When
reporting the administration of a Moderna Bivalent Spikevax vaccine to the AIR, vaccination providers should use the vaccine code MODBIV."

Codes are oddly important? That they create a code doesn't give your Doctor access to it until the software used is update

Yet another example of very poor planing. It should have been given to our software providers 4 weeks ago to be ready!!!

This should be in GRUMPY OLD BUGGER?

Edit I am planning my planing

Is that going to be available to those who have had four jabs, as a regular booster, of for the un and partially vaccinated?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Is that going to be available to those who have had four jabs, as a regular booster, of for the un and partially vaccinated?

My Haematologist has told me that I'm good to go for it (I've had 4 jabs), but to wait for that one.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Is that going to be available to those who have had four jabs, as a regular booster, of for the un and partially vaccinated?

My bet is it will be in the flu vax next year for all of us. At the moment is only for a Booster Ian. IF Covid goes nuts here again that would change quickly! My other bet is we have until March June 2023 before covid cases spike a lot here in the Southern Hemisphere unless a new spicy cough variety comes


Have a great weekend

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

My bet is it will be in the flu vax next year for all of us. At the moment is only for a Booster Ian. IF Covid goes nuts here again that would change quickly! My other bet is we have until March June 2023 before covid cases spike a lot here in the Southern Hemisphere unless a new spicy cough variety comes


Have a great weekend

Well, we're not really helping. This was emailed from Service NSW today:

Changes to COVID self-isolation rules

From 14 October 2022, it will no longer be mandatory to self-isolate at home if you test positive to COVID-19.

Getting the new vaccine at the Chemist on Monday.

"the subvariants known as BQ.1.1, BQ.1, BQ.1.3, BA.2.3.20 and XBB are among the fastest-spreading of the main omicron lineages. Based on UK data, the BQ variants, as well as BA.2.75.2 and BF.7 are the most concerning due to their growth advantage and immune evasiveness, the country’s health security agency said on Oct. 7. BF.7 has also been gaining ground in the US, where it accounted for 4.6% of Covid cases in the week ending Oct. 8, from 3.3% the week before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Atlanta-based agency noted BA4.6 was the most prevalent after BA.5, accounting for 13.6% of cases in the first week of October, from 12.7% the week before. In Bangladesh and Singapore, the XBB strain has been linked to a small surge in cases."

"New variants of the rapidly mutating coronavirus are still popping up around the world, and a new iteration of COVID on the rise in Asia may be the most immune-evasive yet"

News is why I want the new one myself. The original vaccines still help stop hospitalization and serious covid yet the chance of LONG covid is apparently higher if you get it more than once!

I like running to much to chance that risk.

"A new long-covid study based on the experiences of nearly 100,000 participants provides powerful evidence that many people do not fully recover months after being infected with the coronavirus.

The Scottish study found that between six and 18 months after infection, 1 in 20 people had not recovered and 42 percent reported partial recovery. There were some reassuring aspects to the results: People with asymptomatic infections are unlikely to suffer long-term effects, and vaccination appears to offer some protection from long covid. Link


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Promise to let you know if I cannot run 10km tomorrow night

"..A new study by South African researchers has found that people who got the most exercise responded better to the vaccine, with fewer ending up in hospital following the jab.Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation was 60 per cent in people who regularly achieved less than 60 minutes of exercise per week compared with 86 per cent for those who gained the recommended level of 150 minutes or more.
It means that out of 100 people who would have ended up in hospital with Covid without a jab, 40 of the least active would still be admitted compared with just 14 of the most active - nearly a threefold difference." Link

My running post vaccines might not have been as crazy as some thought

Several people may have been Covid positive at a Wedding I was at on the weekend. I wonder if the bivalent vax I had last week will kick a goal?

Hope so- I have a Marathon on Sunday- Sorry Portland

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Vaccination coverage (%) for Estimated Residential Population (eligible), by jurisdiction

Jurisdiction	Population with at least one doses, 5+ years (%)	Population with two doses, 5+ years (%)	Eligible population with third dose, 16+ years (%)	Eligible population with fourth dose, 30+ years (%)
National	92.0%	89.5%	72.2%	41.5%
NSW	91.5%	89.4%	70.2%	43.1%
Vic	93.2%	91.0%	74.3%	39.1%
Qld	86.7%	84.3%	65.2%	44.6%
WA	90.9%	88.3%	83.5%	35.8%
SA	89.1%	86.5%	76.1%	45.3%
Tas	91.4%	89.0%	74.7%	48.1%
ACT	94.7%	92.6%	80.6%	45.9%
NT	83.8%	80.2%	79.6%	24.5%

Source: Australian Immunisation Register as at 19 Oct 2022 link

I have sort have had 6 after the one last week. A novavax/fluvax guineapig test may or may not have added a few. Plus a Wuhan sneeze four months ago

Was at a party last night and chatting to some people about the Vic election and someone standing nearby butted in and started going off on a rant about Covid - the flu is more dangerous, vaccines are killing people, Sweden proved that you don't need to control it, Melbourne had the world's longest lockdowns etc. The guy I was talking to had actually been living in Europe at the height of the pre-vaccine Covid wave and simply pointed out that he had seven acquaintances in his own circle of friends who had died of Covid. And he knew no-one who'd died of the flu, ever, let alone in the last three years. And, in practice, they'd had longer lock-downs than us, and the army in the streets enforcing them. He went on to say that when Melbourne was getting three cases a day they were getting 11,000. That was when they decided it was time to return to Melbourne, notwithstanding the occasional lockdowns.