Covid: Booster jabs to open earlier for booking in England
The NHS is relaxing booking rules in a bid to speed up the rollout before a "challenging" winter.
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Government memo reveals new ‘Plan B’ Covid restrictions could be just days away
Controls include legally mandated face masks, vaccine passports for nightclubs, and working from home
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Starry Wisdom
could be right...
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Government memo reveals new ‘Plan B’ Covid restrictions could be just days away
Controls include legally mandated face masks, vaccine passports for nightclubs, and working from homewww.mylondon.news
That's from two weeks ago, and we are still waiting for the 'immediate roll-out.'
Who fucking knows anymore?
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Guidance is not to aspirate for these vaccinations, or at least was a few months ago. I'd be surprised if it's changed.
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_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
Thanks do you know why?
Is it just that the risk of hitting a blood vessel is minimal?, seems to me that its such an easy thing to do and it guarantees you arent in a vessel..why not?
Just that Im a little concerned as my deltoids are fairly developed and I probably have good sized blood vessels there and have heard of some possible bad effects if one is hit
Is it just that the risk of hitting a blood vessel is minimal?, seems to me that its such an easy thing to do and it guarantees you arent in a vessel..why not?
Just that Im a little concerned as my deltoids are fairly developed and I probably have good sized blood vessels there and have heard of some possible bad effects if one is hit
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
They're not near the injection site, the needle isn't long enough to reach them, and on balance evidence shows aspiration has its own risks and disadvantages. There were some suggestions early on some of the side effects might have been linked to the vaccine going into blood vessels rather than IM, but afaik there's no evidence that was the case.
Pet dog contracts Covid in first confirmed case in UK
Animal thought to have caught virus from owners, but experts say there is no evidence pets can pass Covid to humans
“Based on the available information to date, the risk of animals spreading Covid-19 to people is considered to be low,” it statesPet dog contracts Covid in first confirmed case in UK
Animal thought to have caught virus from owners, but experts say there is no evidence pets can pass Covid to humanswww.theguardian.com
Thank fuck we could be in a bit of a pickle if animals could give us a coronavirus
Can someone quickly explain what 'aspirate' means in a vaccination context??
I ask in a bit of a rush to get to bed
, but also on the basis that knowledgeable Urbans can be more reliable than random Googling! 
I ask in a bit of a rush to get to bed
, but also on the basis that knowledgeable Urbans can be more reliable than random Googling!
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Drawing back on the syringe before you give the injection, to make sure the needle isn't in a blood vesselCan someone quickly explain what 'aspirate' means in a vaccination context??
I ask in a bit of a rush to get to bed
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Amazing video. Watch it
Not bad if you've got some life science background, but it uses terms like ribosome (in-cell protein-making factory) and cytoplasm (in-cell background fluid) without explanation.
(Or have I underestimated what people generally know..?)
Supine
Newt Member
teuchter
je suis teuchter
It doesn't use those terms without explanation. It explains what both of those things are visually. Before watching the video I could not have told you what a ribosome is. Possibly after watching the video I would have forgotten that the thing that takes the MRNA and makes it into something else is called a ribosome; however, the concept that such things exist and the story of what part they play in the broader process has been quite well communicated.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
We're out in the Centre:MK today, in Milton Keynes. I'd estimate mask wearing at around 5%, if that, including all the staff working in shops with signs up about masks. Plus everyone is ignoring all the arrows on the floor that are supposed to prevent congestion, so it's unnecessarily packed in some areas. 
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Puddy_Tat
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2hats
Dust.
Amazing video. Watch it
For recipients of AstraZeneca/J&J, the viral vector version
illustrating the additional step.
How the UK sleepwalked into another Covid disaster
By failing to prevent the rapid spread of coronavirus in schools, Boris Johnson has thrown children and adults to the wolves.
www.newstatesman.com
elbows
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I like the tone of that article but I get depressed that all we can expect is a few articles like that months later, when its been perfectly possible for people here and elsewhere to rant about this disgraceful pursual of herd immunity via infection in younger people since at least the start of June.How the UK sleepwalked into another Covid disaster
By failing to prevent the rapid spread of coronavirus in schools, Boris Johnson has thrown children and adults to the wolves.
_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
...and then you woke up?
_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
Not sure how much weight to give SAGE's predictions these days, but I wonder what the knowledge base in here thinks of the scenarios in the link below?
A Warning About The Future Of Covid-19 From The Scientific Advisory Group For Emergencies Of The United Kingdom
A Warning About The Future Of Covid-19 From The Scientific Advisory Group For Emergencies Of The United Kingdom
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