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NYT giving a good explanation of why vaccination is not just a matter of 'goodbye masks and distancing' and how the vaccine may develop over time: Here’s Why Vaccinated People Still Need to Wear a Mask
If you're in Tier 3 you can only go into someone else's house if you (or they) are single and you're in a bubble with them.
Hoping someone knows about this delaying the second jab. My mam is due her second one in a week and has an appointment, is this likely to be cancelled? She's 85 and shielding so if it does happen we might club our cash together and see if we can get her second one private as it's stressing our family to bits trying to keep her safe.
It's unclear - wait and see before doing anything. Hopefully it'll just go ahead.
Yeah, I've had one of those - by email ...These fucking scammers. Wife who is shielding because of her diabetes and other conditions, received a text linking to the NHS site an hour ago. Inviting her to apply for a vaccine and to give card details to confirm who she is. Anyone less savvy could have fallen for it. Hope any cunt behind these scams fucking dies.
People who recover from coronavirus have a similar level of protection against future infection as those who receive a Covid vaccine – at least for the first five months, research suggests.
A Public Health England (PHE) study of more than 20,000 healthcare workers found that immunity acquired from an earlier Covid infection provided 83% protection against reinfection for at least 20 weeks.
The findings show that while people are unlikely to become reinfected soon after their first infection, it is possible to catch the virus again and potentially spread it to others.
Over the five months the researchers monitored infection rates in the two groups. They spotted 44 potential reinfections, including 13 symptomatic, among the 6,614 believed to have had Covid before, and 318 cases among the 14,173 who had no evidence of past infection. A previous infection, they conclude, provides 94% protection against symptomatic reinfection, and 75% protection against asymptomatic reinfection.
The cases are referred to as “potential” reinfections because a detailed genetic analysis of both first and second viruses must be done to confirm a reinfection, but information for the first infections was often not available.
“The immunity gives you a similar effect to the Pfizer vaccine and a much better effect than the AstraZeneca vaccine and that is reassuring for people. But we still see people who could transmit and so we want to strike a note of caution,” Prof Hopkins said. In clinical trials, two doses of the Pfizer vaccinehad an efficacy of 95%, compared with 62% from two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
While the study is encouraging, it is unclear whether the same protection applies to older people. The study participants were aged 35 to 54 and would be expected to have robust immune systems. Older people tend to have weaker immune responses that are more short-lived.
Another question mark hangs over the risk of reinfection from new Covid variants spotted in the UK, South Africa and Brazil, an issue PHE will investigate as the study continues this year.
This looks handy
In what way zahir ? do you mean all the "sometimes" that are mentioned?
Fatigue does seem far more common than sometimes from most reporting...though "sometimes" is a very vague term
Assuming the husband and wife live together, they can only form a support bubble with one other household (usually the other household needs to be a single person living alone but there's a few exceptions).Can someone put my anxious mind at ease please? If you've got a husband and wife, and the wife is in a bubble with her mother, the husband can't make another bubble with his mother can he? I'm sure it's what the website says but I'm that stressed I just need someone to confirm please (I'm on my own). Thank you.
Sounds unreasonable to me. I still visit with my brother’s and my sister’s families. Can’t see how it’s possible to do any different, though I guess this is about children rather than just adultsAssuming the husband and wife live together, they can only form a support bubble with one other household (usually the other household needs to be a single person living alone but there's a few exceptions).
You don't go and visit them?Sounds unreasonable to me. I still visit with my brother’s and my sister’s families. Can’t see how it’s possible to do any different, though I guess this is about children rather than just adults
yes but in the park and only one kid at a timeYou don't go and visit them?
That's the rules for support bubbles (support bubbles being people you're allowed to visit, stay overnight with, generally act as if you're part of the same household). There's other rules for childcare bubbles that I've never looked up coz they're not relevant to me. Sure, a few people will have complicated situations that mean they can't stick exactly to those rules but "unreasonable" and "[not] possible to do any different [than breaking those rules]"??Sounds unreasonable to me. I still visit with my brother’s and my sister’s families. Can’t see how it’s possible to do any different, though I guess this is about children rather than just adults
'meeting in the park' is a bit different to 'visiting with'...yes but in the park and only one kid at a time