Then people should, you know rather than beat the same drum about lockdowns, do whatever it takes to ease the pressure on the health services by wearing masks, socially distancing, stop meeting up unnecessarily etc
This reads very positive indeed - -Just get it rolled out lads!!!
I just hope it all goes smoothly through to passing phase 3 trials and then regulatory approval.
How long do they trial vaccines in stage 3?
After i got a kid i cant watch stuff like that anymore. Its impossible.
Because they’re fcuking stupid.
Just a quick point. That is the worst idea I’ve ever heard of.
Developed cities that have Covid imported from other regions have seen higher cases, but Africa has fewer routine transmission routes. Internal flights etc. they don’t import cases from hotspots to unaffected areas as much.
I said it was an arse fart of an idea.
You are absolutely not allowed to make an awful idea but then post “it’s an awful idea” to excuse it. I simply refuse to accept it.
I’m clearly pointing out the absurdity of the British Condition in the nonsensical suggestion.
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a33807752/covid-19-heart-damage-exercise
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/covid-19-antibodies-immunity-waning-uk-study-13381252
Any evidence?
I’m assuming you know Syria isn’t in Africa right ?
Nigeria is doing fine. Long out of lockdown and restrictions, currently have bigger problems than the corona virus.
Definitely good news, I would venture that immunogenicity *should* translate into clinical efficacy (and protection longevity) in theory but good if antibody titres are comparable to younger patients and lower side effects. No published data to confirm of course objectively. Of course like with so many things around this disease its conjecture (possibly misplaced optimism) I think at this point.
Thanks. Yes im guessing the focus is on a different Sars there. Hoping you are good, if you live there.
Thanks for the update. With the wide spread in Europe the newspapers here dont write much about anywhere else.
Was just thinking about that earlier. Never will a publication have had so much scrutiny from medical and lay people alike. Can you imagine the pressure the peer reviewers will feel going over it?!
It's a pretty mixed bag and varies across countries. What we know for certain is that lockdown hasn't led to more deaths than covid right now, although the people that put that argument forward do tend to mean it as a general forecast for the negative health effects from the economic outcomes, the gradual build-up in mental health problems, etc. In that sense it's pretty much set up as an unfalsifiable position, and you can find evidence from past economic crashes that suggest more people died from suicides but fewer people died from employment-related illnesses, and general disagreement on the overall health outcomes of the same recession. At the end of the day we don't have any good data on the causality either way.
So the simple answer is there is no evidence that lockdowns have caused more deaths in the same time than covid. While there is evidence that there as an increase in deaths during lockdown, it's difficult to know how many of them would have been avoided without the lockdown given how many of them would have happened irrespective of it due to the care home catastrophe. We'll get a better idea of that when we see the 2nd half of this year's figures as so many areas are in lockdown-lite facing many of the same issues that were raised before, while the care home situation is under control.
There’s definitely been a paradoxical increase in life expectancy associated with economic downturns over the years. It’s a weird one but less money to spend seems to result in fewer risks being taken and hence fewer people dying young.
That's not a bad idea, although you don't really need to do 14 day isolation AND tests.
I think for me the biggest issue is going to be the current issue of almost expectation being in a binary (either the vaccine is or is not effective, safe or not safe). Like the flu vaccination there will such a huge variation in efficacy it will be difficult to see widespread agreement on whether we should put all our eggs in that basket with mass vaccination programme when we know we have other candidates upcoming too.
What deaths? Of what type?
Yeah I know. But that’s my hard line. I don’t trust my extended in-laws to obey to the exact letter of my law.
I’m very familiar with Dr Goldacre. I work for a pharma company so am well used to his barbs being flung in our direction. He’s often fair and correct with his criticism but often not. I particularly enjoyed the hubris of the project he set up to expose pharma companies failure to report clinical trial results which ended up identifying academic institutions as the main culprits.
Just read that, what a rise in the wrong direction.
Was the takeaway not “All trials should be identified”?
I ended up booking a drive through test at Manchester airport as I've been told the results come back quicker. The home delivery one has only just arrived I couldn't wait about that long.
Im not being a dick, but the manifestation of fake Covid19 is real.
I've got admit I've been a sceptic but I know of loads now going down with it, South Manchester is rife with it.
