COVID-19 vaccines

No mention of the one shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine being approved by the US FDA?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56226979

Do you thing that this is going to be the one that the countries without electricity supply every where will get, at it is stored in a fridge and not a freezer?

even if it offers limited immunity to Covid itself.

I read your first post as saying that one dose of the vaccine was not particularly useful in protecting yourself against covid, which bothers me, because playing down the usefulness plays into anti-vaxer's hands. (Which I don't see you as, given the fact you've had the vaccine)

Protection against hospitalisation is not immunity.

This is true, but I don't see what point is being made?

From JVT in this evening's presentation:

Both vaccines are 60%+ effective at preventing ALL illness 1 month after the first dose.

On top of that, after 1 dose, they are reducing hospitalisations by 80%, and deaths by 85%

*death reduction stats only currently available for Phizer.

I understand your position on antivaxers. My position is completely at odds with theirs. I had the vaccine because it is right and proper to do so and gives me the most immunity and protection that I am being offered. It is important that everyone should do that as we can then move to reduce and possibly eradicate the threat of the virus. That said, it is equally important to appreciate that having one or two jabs will not mean that one cannot catch and pass on the virus.One is not immune in the way that one is from a smallpox vaccine. One can get it but is likely to be less seriously ill. More concerningly, one can pass it on and therefore, even with the vaccine, one must be cautious until such time as everyone has had the vaccination.

Vaccine details by a scientist from the European Molecular Biology Lab

Not sure how to reduce the size of the pictures to a more sensible level.

These are taken from lapipette facebook page and are updated as the info changes. Hope this is the right latest data.

I had COVID in early December with zero side effects. I got the Pfizer vaccine yesterday and other than a slightly heavy feeling at the injection site, I feel totally fine. Next dose in three weeks. Looking forward to some normality... Fortunately my wife was also eligible so we will both be vaccinated at the same time.

great news JB 👍

Trial sponsored by Johnson+Johnson finds that the Johnson+Johnson vaccine is most effective against SA variant. What a shocker.

Three days since the Oxford Brookes and no side effects. I think I am in the clear.

Lots of horror stories before of people sick for two or three days with high temperatures. Apparently under 10% of people have any reaction.

Literally every drug trial is sponsored by its manufacturer.

Anti-vax bullshit can FRO.

Apparently under 10% of people have any reaction.

Having a jab and no side effects doesn't get nearly as many social media interactions.

Anecdotally, AZ tends to (if at all) hit you on the first dose, while Pfizer tends hits you on the second (if at all).

My colleagues who have had 2 doses suggest this, and vaccination people said the same. No one took more than a day off (if at all).

I must have missed something? I'd argue that those informatics would be held up as more anti-pfizer/az vax.

good to know. Hopefully part 2 will be kinder then.

Don't mind feeling rough for a couple of days, but no fun when you got a load of work to get through.

0.5ml of AstraZeneca's finest ChAdOx1-S [recombinant]
coursing through my veins.

Back of the info sheet tells me each 0.5ml contains 5 x 10^10 viral particles.

I’ve just received the Oxford / AZ vaccine first dose. I’m batch cooking that Colombian remedy to see me through the next three days, just in case I develop flu like symptoms.

Some great info on this thread.

that Colombian remedy

I think I missed this. What’s that?

I think I missed this. What’s that?

you seen Scarface?

NHS staff and have second booster jab of Pfizer booked in for 9 weeks and 1 day after the first.

12 weeks is the maximum gap expected between jabs but I believe 9-10 weeks is the target

Got me some sweet AZ this morning. I was told a very specific 11 weeks but we'll see!

Taking bookings here for 0ver 55 now, possibly as there is a big bump in availability of vaccines week after next and sites have been told to try for "double the number" they did last week.

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We’re running an extra session on Saturday, moving to “super hubs” by April

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2021/03/C1165-COVID-19-vaccination-deployment-next-steps-and-plans-for-weeks-of-8-and-15-March.pdf

"From 11 March,vaccine supply will increase substantially and be sustained at a higher level for several weeks. Therefore, from the week of 15 March we are now asking systems to plan and support all vaccination centres and local vaccination services to deliver around twice the level of vaccine available in the week of 1 March. "

My mother is booked in for her second jab on Saturday, she had her first on 16th December, so I make that 11 1/2 weeks. Looks like things are running smoothly

Great news. Also very encouraging about doing more to reach underrepresented cohorts.