COVID Vaccine !

[MrGrumpy]

Son 15 had his vaccine today. Was booked in during the October break which I wasn’t aware off , however he was keen to get it done soon as he could.

Pfizer is now known as Comirnaty !?

 

[classic33]

Son 15 had his vaccine today. Was booked in during the October break which I wasn’t aware off , however he was keen to get it done soon as he could.

Pfizer is now known as Comirnaty !?

Sounds more like somewhere out of the shipping forecast.
FDA approval last month, so they were able to give it an actual name. As opposed to using the company name.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Sounds more like somewhere out of the shipping forecast.

LOL! I think it sounds like an organisation from Soviet-era Russia!

 

[slowmotion]

LOL! I think it sounds like an organisation from Soviet-era Russia!

It's what ladies in ridiculously short skirts call out to drum up trade while standing in doorways.

 

[PK99]

We are in Vancouver. Mask wearing universal in shops and vaccine passport plus photo id to get into bars and restaurants is 100% required and checked.

 

[mjr]

Booster vaccine programme called a "chaotic failure" and main vaccination programme has lost momentum, says https://www.theguardian.com/society...llout-for-immunosuppressed-is-chaotic-failure

 

[lazybloke]

Booster vaccine programme called a "chaotic failure" and main vaccination programme has lost momentum, says https://www.theguardian.com/society...llout-for-immunosuppressed-is-chaotic-failure

My youngest has a health condition and might qualify for a 3rd jab.
1st jab would be nice!

More dither?

 

[C R]

Our two daughters over the age of 12. Some of their friends are registered with a doctors surgery in Upton, and have already been called. Not a peep from the surgeries in Worcester though, and when we asked we were just told to wait.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Interesting to see how things will pan out down under now Aus is starting to open up and presumably NZ next.

Both countries have already administered more vaccine doses per capita than the US, and have about the same number of people with at least one dose as we do. Impressive stuff once they got going.

Their death tolls are a tiny fraction of ours, and lest anyone claims an overcrowded island like ours could never achieve this, Japan isn't far behind.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Covaxin Trial Results
"Highly efficacious against laboratory-confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 disease”.
Covaxin has been developed by Bharat Biotech International and trialed in India (Jan-May 2021).
25,798 participants split 50/50: two doses of BBV152 (n=12,221) or placebo (n=12,198).
Interim results published in The Lancet show that the vaccine had an overall estimated efficacy of:

• 77.8% (95% CI 65.2 to 86.4) against symptomatic COVID-19
• and against severe disease (93.4%; 95% CI 57.1 to 99.8).

Same adverse reaction levels - 12% . . no cases of anaphylaxis or vaccine-related deaths. "Vaccination was well tolerated with no safety concerns raised."

 

[mjr]

Researchers may have figured out how the OxAZ vaccine triggered blood clots in some people: https://www.thejournal.ie/astrazeneca-blood-clot-trigger-identified-5617686-Dec2021/

Also news of a GSK-Vir monoclonal antibody (name ends -mab, sotrovimab) treatment being approved by the UK regulator.

 

[vickster]

Quick thoughts from the double vaxed and subsequently infected...and getting the booster...

Pfizer 1st vax mid-March, 2nd mid-June.
Positive PCR on 24 October Did the antibody test a week after the PCR (3 Nov), antibodies detected to vaccine.
Just got results from second A/B test done 26 November, and I now have A/Bs to vaccine and virus

I'd booked my booster for the 20 Dec before getting the latest results. Rebooked for 8 Jan.
I'm now thinking I should wait for a few months more given I'm seemingly swimming in A/Bs (at least presumably to Delta) and there's talk of vaccines being tweaked for Omicron.

Anyone else in the same situation? Thoughts?

 

[C R]

I had Astra Zeneca, first dose in February, second in May, but never had a positive PCR and never had an A/B test, so don't actually know how my immune system is doing. I had moderna for my booster on Tuesday, so here's hoping it works well enough.

 

[vickster]

I had Astra Zeneca, first dose in February, second in May, but never had a positive PCR and never had an A/B test, so don't actually know how my immune system is doing. I had moderna for my booster on Tuesday, so here's hoping it works well enough.

You only get offered AB testing free if PCR positive (although I don’t think everyone who agrees gets the test) or part of a study. I believe you can pay for testing though if wanted,
A bit of a rigmarole trying to get enough blood into the little tube though, especially while it’s cold!

 

[icowden]

Just got my booster and a flu jab (Two for one offer!!)