COVID 19 GLOBAL

[Stillearly]

 

[fygjam]

6 hours ago, lazarus said:

 Meanwhile...in OZ...

 

 

And we've found the dickhead!

 

[Glasseye]

Interesting study....

 

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/pfizer-moderna-covid-vaccines-likely-to-produce-long-lasting-immunity-study-suggests/

[Peroni]

Darwin win sort this all out one way or another. Just going to take a little time.

[galenkia]

Sajid is on the case!. 

At last a bit of positivity instead of the prick Hancock and his negative attitude. He was happy to let it continue while those who have money, power and influence swan around the world at will and ignored the restrictions like they don't apply to them. 

[fygjam]

25 minutes ago, galenkia said:

while those who have money, power and influence swan around the world at will and ignored the restrictions like they don't apply to them. 

Barnaby Joyce fined $200 for breaching NSW’s Covid mask rule

Barnaby Joyce may have been hoping for some down time after a turbulent week in Canberra, but the newly-returned Deputy PM has hit trouble with police.

Barnaby Joyce has copped a $200 fine after being dobbed in by a member of the public for
failing to wear a mask.

Police say the newly-returned Deputy Prime Minister flouted NSW’s mask mandate as he
up filled his car at a petrol station in Armidale on Monday.

 

Fancy that, a member of the public dobbing in a politician.

No hope of the Beetrooter resigning of course.

 

Edited June 29, 2021 by fygjam

[Zeb]

Singapore reveals plan to defeat the coronavirus: No quarantine, no daily case numbers

The bad news is that COVID-19 may never go away. The good news is that it is possible to live normally with it in our midst.”

That’s the message from Singapore’s Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong and Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, published in a recent editorial in the Straits Times.

And they released a plan detailing exactly how to do it.

As part of Singapore’s transition to a ‘new normal’, the country will spend the next three months preparing its people to live with the virus.

It’s going to scrap lockdowns, home isolation and restrictions, and will start treating COVID just like any other endemic disease, like the flu.

There will be no goals of zero transmission.

Travellers will no longer have to endure quarantine, and close contacts of cases will no longer have to isolate.

Eventually, the city state will stop announcing daily case numbers altogether.

Singapore has a coronavirus plan: Mass vaccination

No points for guessing the first and most important step in Singapore’s strategy.

Singapore is on track to administer at least one vaccine dose to two-thirds of its population by early July.

The country’s next milestone will be to have at least two-thirds of its population fully vaccinated with two doses by August 9.

“The evidence is clear: Vaccines are highly effective in reducing the risk of infection as well as transmission,” the three ministers wrote.

“Even if you are infected, vaccines will help prevent severe COVID-19 symptoms.”

The idea is an infected person can recover at home, because with vaccination the symptoms will be mostly mild, and the risk of transmission will be low.

The trio conceded new variants will pose an ongoing threat, and suggested a national plan to roll out regular booster shots, like the annual flu vaccine.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2021/06/28/singapore-coronavirus-plan/

[Krapow]

Yea, it's the only realistic long term solution to all this, the vaccines are the way out.

Get the population vaccinated, then open up, let them do their magic. 

I think/hope that's the direction the UK is taking from 19th July.

You can't close yourself off forever as a country, and it gets in anyway, as Thailand, Australia etc are finding out. 

We have to learn to live with Covid, same as other respiratory diseases. It isn't going anywhere. 

It's just different countries are at different stages, we need everywhere vaccinated, then we can truly move on from this debacle. 

[bob lt]

10 hours ago, fygjam said:

 

And we've found the dickhead!

 

 

You don't have a monopoly on dickheads, we have plenty.

   

    

[Painter]

7 hours ago, Zeb said:

Singapore reveals plan to defeat the coronavirus: No quarantine, no daily case numbers

The bad news is that COVID-19 may never go away. The good news is that it is possible to live normally with it in our midst.”

That’s the message from Singapore’s Trade Minister Gan Kim Yong, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong and Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, published in a recent editorial in the Straits Times.

And they released a plan detailing exactly how to do it.

As part of Singapore’s transition to a ‘new normal’, the country will spend the next three months preparing its people to live with the virus.

It’s going to scrap lockdowns, home isolation and restrictions, and will start treating COVID just like any other endemic disease, like the flu.

There will be no goals of zero transmission.

Travellers will no longer have to endure quarantine, and close contacts of cases will no longer have to isolate.

Eventually, the city state will stop announcing daily case numbers altogether.

Singapore has a coronavirus plan: Mass vaccination

No points for guessing the first and most important step in Singapore’s strategy.

Singapore is on track to administer at least one vaccine dose to two-thirds of its population by early July.

The country’s next milestone will be to have at least two-thirds of its population fully vaccinated with two doses by August 9.

“The evidence is clear: Vaccines are highly effective in reducing the risk of infection as well as transmission,” the three ministers wrote.

“Even if you are infected, vaccines will help prevent severe COVID-19 symptoms.”

The idea is an infected person can recover at home, because with vaccination the symptoms will be mostly mild, and the risk of transmission will be low.

The trio conceded new variants will pose an ongoing threat, and suggested a national plan to roll out regular booster shots, like the annual flu vaccine.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2021/06/28/singapore-coronavirus-plan/

In principle, great. It's what's happening in the UK and elsewhere.

The issue is for those countries, like Australia and Thailand, who were so busy congratulating themselves on "keeping the virus out", that they seemingly took their eye of the longer term, and vaccination. They've given the virus a huge headstart in the virus v vaccine race.

I'm sure Singapore wouldnt be proposing this if they hadn't got their vaccination programme up and running.

[fforest]

 

[Krapow]

Goodness me i just liked a post on the Covid thread from @fforest

If i start posting stuff from David Icke or using 'they' and 'them' quite a bit in any subsequent posts, please get me a mental health assessment as a matter of urgency!

 

[lazarus]

1 hour ago, Krapow said:

Goodness me i just liked a post on the Covid thread from @fforest

If i start posting stuff from David Icke or using 'they' and 'them' quite a bit in any subsequent posts, please get me a mental health assessment as a matter of urgency!

 

🙂

[Horizondave]

Interesting but Wales has recorded no deaths from covid in the last week. A little positive bit of data.

There were 573 deaths but none related to the pandemic.

[lazarus]

Must be Delta.

All 24 unvaccinated people at birthday party in Australia contract COVID

https://www.kron4.com/health/coronavirus/all-24-unvaccinated-people-at-birthday-party-in-australia-contract-covid/?fbclid=IwAR2p8GAxL_P8VMIKIz4peS6gYujh2YU2X937ubFtLMt1Dkr2gvS1z2n9Onk

Six vaccinated people at a recent party in a suburb of Sydney, Australia were the only ones who didn’t test positive for COVID-19, according to health officials.

The superspreader event is a cautionary tale, health officials in the state of New South Wales say, and proof that the country won’t be able to leave the pandemic behind until its single-digit vaccination rate increases.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that all of the people who tested positive after attending the birthday celebration in West Hoxton were infected with the delta strain of the coronavirus...

...Chief Health Officer Dr. Kerry Chant told 7 News that an asymptomatic guest unknowingly spread the virus throughout the party. Had the six guests not been vaccinated, it’s possible that the infection rate at the party could have been 100%.,,

[Lemondropkid]

4 hours ago, lazarus said:

Must be Delta.

All 24 unvaccinated people at birthday party in Australia contract COVID

https://www.kron4.com/health/coronavirus/all-24-unvaccinated-people-at-birthday-party-in-australia-contract-covid/?fbclid=IwAR2p8GAxL_P8VMIKIz4peS6gYujh2YU2X937ubFtLMt1Dkr2gvS1z2n9Onk

Six vaccinated people at a recent party in a suburb of Sydney, Australia were the only ones who didn’t test positive for COVID-19, according to health officials.

The superspreader event is a cautionary tale, health officials in the state of New South Wales say, and proof that the country won’t be able to leave the pandemic behind until its single-digit vaccination rate increases.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that all of the people who tested positive after attending the birthday celebration in West Hoxton were infected with the delta strain of the coronavirus...

...Chief Health Officer Dr. Kerry Chant told 7 News that an asymptomatic guest unknowingly spread the virus throughout the party. Had the six guests not been vaccinated, it’s possible that the infection rate at the party could have been 100%.,,

Was the Indian variant, can't read the link in Europe. This link works for us in Euro (even with Brexit😁)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-28/vaccinated-attendees-west-hoxton-birthday-party-avoid-covid-19/100249612

[lazarus]

Making vaccination progress here locally...

70% of Latinx People In SF Have Had at Least One Vaccine Dose; 81% Vaccinated Citywide

https://sfist.com/2021/06/29/70-of-latinx-people-in-sf-have-at-least-one-vaccine-dose/

San Francisco announced what it said was an "important milestone" on Tuesday, saying that 70% of eligible Latinx residents, i.e. those over the age of 12, have received at least one vaccine dose as of today. That represents 93,000 people in the city who are part of one of the hardest-hit communities in the pandemic.

Also as of today, 81% of all eligible city residents have received at least one vaccine dose, and 74% have been fully vaccinated. The figures come as public health officials in Los Angeles and elsewhere around the world are urging continued caution and indoor mask-wearing due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. While the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) have preliminarily been seen to be highly effective against this and other variants, the infectiousness of the Delta variant, first seen in India, means it could seed serious outbreaks among unvaccinated pockets of the population.

Public health officials also said that San Francisco's seven-day average of new cases had declined 97% since January, from 372 cases to just 10 as of June 20...

[Krapow]

Nearly sure that's Spicy at the back there, screaming to get his shot ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-57665092

[Krapow]

UK's starting to post big infection numbers now, biggest since January. But hospitalisations while rising, remain low, deaths remain very low.

Boris and co just need to hold their nerve here, no panicking, they keep saying they're guided by the data, and the data is clear, the vaccines are working very well. No doubt the usual voices will be screaming, briefing the media etc, but the balance is tipped for me. The damage done by not fully opening up, in all sorts of ways, is greater that the relatively small number of deaths we will see if we do.  

[Painter]

Oh. 

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-nearly-2-000-cases-linked-to-scotland-fans-watching-euro-2020-games-12345619

But, for me, there's one detail missing. How many of those affected have been jabbed, either once or twice, or not at all?

[galenkia]

50 minutes ago, Krapow said:

UK's starting to post big infection numbers now, biggest since January. But hospitalisations while rising, remain low, deaths remain very low.

Boris and co just need to hold their nerve here, no panicking, they keep saying they're guided by the data, and the data is clear, the vaccines are working very well. No doubt the usual voices will be screaming, briefing the media etc, but the balance is tipped for me. The damage done by not fully opening up, in all sorts of ways, is greater that the relatively small number of deaths we will see if we do.  

Hancock would of been rubbing his hands with glee and planning a lock down extensions. 

Sajid and Rishi will push for a end to it all. 

[Lemondropkid]

3 hours ago, Painter said:

Oh. 

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-nearly-2-000-cases-linked-to-scotland-fans-watching-euro-2020-games-12345619

But, for me, there's one detail missing. How many of those affected have been jabbed, either once or twice, or not at all?

Mostly lads aged 20 to 39.

Showed a few of them outside the Spoons in Leicester Square on the sauce at 9AM. The reporter commented that they seemed unperturbed by the fact the pub was unable to serve breakfast🍻

[Stillearly]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57667987
 

Covid: NHS plans booster jab for those 50 and over before winter

 

The NHS has been given the green light to start planning a Covid vaccine booster programme in the UK ahead of this winter.

A bigger flu season than normal is expected, meaning extra protection against Covid is likely to be needed.

More than 30 million of the most vulnerable should receive a third dose, vaccine experts are advising.

They will include all adults aged 50 and over, and anyone younger who qualifies for a flu jab.

Health service bosses had previously said they needed lots of warning of an autumn Covid-19 booster rollout in order to plan the logistics alongside vaccinating millions of people against flu.

Interim advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that boosters will help maintain protection against Covid-19 and new variants for those most at risk, before winter comes.

[Zeb]

Swabs were taken from 310 pets in 196 households where a human infection had been detected.

Six cats and seven dogs returned a positive PCR result, while 54 animals tested positive for virus antibodies.

“If you have Covid, you should avoid contact with your cat or dog, just as you would do with other people,” Dr Els Broens, from Utrecht University, said.

“The main concern is not the animals’ health but the potential risk that pets could act as a reservoir of the virus and reintroduce it into the human population.”

The authors of the study said no evidence of pet-to-owner transmission had been recorded to date but it would be difficult to detect while the virus was still spreading easily between humans.

Most infected pets tend to be asymptomatic or display mild Covid symptoms.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57666245?

 

[fforest]

I guess this is not a joke.....First it was Krispy Kreme doughnuts in America, now the plague is invading Pattaya...
 

Edited July 1, 2021 by fforest