It’s a meningitis vaccine, it has similar immediate side effects that don’t occur with a purely saline injection and so doesn’t risk giving the game away immediately.Thanks.
- MenACWY seems to refer to some other vaccine... were they giving the control group a different vaccine rather than placebo?
Sigh. We are literally going to have to spend all year explaining to people who don't like thinking about numbers that 5% of a big number can still be quite a big number aren't we?And that the 95% figure is for people not getting it seriously. This is going to get very tedious.
Incidentally that reporting by the BBC is fucking irresponsible. They need to explain that plenty of vaccinated people will get the virus, it's not something to be 'angry' about, and they need to explain that until we have BOTH high vaccine uptake AND low prevalence in the population, people should not be changing their behaviour.
Bethan believes frontline NHS workers should be prioritised for the second dose.
"It's controversial to say it, but they're prioritising the wrong group of people," she said.
"I feel strongly that frontline workers need to be prioritised because it's highly contagious and we don't know what we're bringing home to our families.
"I'm really nervous about going back to the ward. We don't know where we stand with the second vaccine and how much protection it provides."
She said she feels let down by her managers at work and said morale amongst staff is at an "all-time low".
"I've seen how badly this has affected my family. I want people to see what we're being exposed to and how unprotected we are," she said.
"I feel my family have been let down. There should be a rollout for frontline workers' families, especially those with children.
"Nurses are on their knees. A lot... feel unprotected and unsupported.
"We're well aware that this is what we signed up for, but it's heartbreaking. I think a lot of them will leave - I'm one of them."
The British Medical Association Cymru Wales has previously expressed concern about the length of time between doses.
Doctors' union, BMA Cymru Wales, said there was a lack of evidence to support waiting 12 weeks for a second vaccine dose.
Chair Dr David Bailey said: "Our families don't choose to be exposed to a much higher dose of Covid, so we feel it's right that we should be protecting health workers and their families."
Doctors' union, BMA Cymru Wales, said there was a lack of evidence to support waiting 12 weeks for a second vaccine dose.
Chair Dr David Bailey, said the plan was "putting people at risk".
"We're also very concerned the Pfizer vaccine has poor data for the first vaccine preventing transmission," he said.
"Our families don't choose to be exposed to a much higher dose of Covid, so we feel it's right that we should be protecting health workers and their families."
Unlike the other vaccines they bought, they acquired the Moderna one very late, after the trial results, and we consequently won’t get any until April. The US is already giving it to people.
Now is when we need it, when the rollout rate is limited by the available vaccine and not by the staff to administer it etc. By April we‘ll have lots of vaccines to go around so it’ll be of limited utility, plus thousands more people will be dead by then.
UK trial of an inhalable drug:
Experimental lung drug to be tested on UK coronavirus patients
Biotech firm Synairgen will trial SNG001 inhaler on 100 people in race to find curewww.theguardian.com
The UK has launched large-scale trials of a new drug that could cut the risk of Covid patients developing severe illness by as much as 80 per cent.
Thirty-four-year-old Alexandra Constantin became the first patient to receive the drug, produced by London-listed biotech firm Synairgen, after receiving the dose at Hull Royal Infirmary yesterday afternoon.
The phase three trials will see Synairgen’s inhaled formulation of a protein called interferon beta administered to more than 600 Covid patients who require supplemental oxygen.
It is thought that the naturally-occurring protein, which is widely used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis , will stimulate the immune system and prime cells to fight off coronavirus.
Early findings suggested the treatment reduced the risk of a Covid-19 patient in hospital developing severe disease, such as requiring ventilation, by almost 80 per cent.
Results from phase two trials of around 100 patients last year also indicated “very significant” reductions in breathlessness, while the average time patients spent in hospital was reduced by a third — down from an average of nine days to six days.
Leak of the Pfizer regulatory documents. If it's naughty to post this I will delete. Serious tech level info on the vaccine manufacturing and regulatory submission.
the zionists not doing palestine, btwUK now seems to have given about 5% of the population its first dose, which I'd say is not bad going.
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Cross convalescent plasma off the list.
Covid: 'Convalescent plasma no benefit to hospital patients'
Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.www.bbc.co.uk
That's sad, it sounded so promising.
I wanted one of the journalists at today's press conference to ask: and what about second doses?
I agree with inoculate as many people with the first dose as possible, but I also think you should do the second dose as the 12 weeks comes along. But it sounds like they are so keen on getting everyone a first dose that they seem to have forgotten they ought to budget time to do the second doses of those that have gone before to provide the full protection that the vaccine offers.Don't see the point tbh. They've made their rationale for delaying them clear enough. Whether they turn out to be right or not the question wouldn't bring out anything new at this point.
I wanted one of the journalists at today's press conference to ask: and what about second doses?
I need advice.
I've signed up to be a guinea pig for new vaccine out but I can back out. I've been sent the info and there is a 50% chance that I'd get a placebo.
The placebo is worrying me. The study is 2 years and 3 months long - so potentially that amount of time with no vaccine for me.
I know there are lots of pointy heads here who can tell me in a scientific way whether it's worth the risk (i'd really like to help but I'd also really like not to end up with long covid or worse.) I am generally fit and well.