Coronavirus Thread V: A Shot in the Arm (READ OP)

[San Lumen]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 07964.html

Pfizer vaccine ‘dramatically reduces’ Covid transmission risk after one dose, study show

[Kowani]

Canada has approved the AstraZeneca vaccine

[Kowani]

Jamaica’s JamCOVID app and website were taken offline following a third security lapse, which exposed quarantine orders (name and address of quarantine location) for more than half a million traveler

[Tinhampton]

Meanwhile, in Glorious Britannia!, the JCVI is now recommending that "Men" - who make up half of the population - receive the vaccine as soon as they are offered it (in addition to members of BAME communities, the obese, and residents of deprived neighbourhoods, which means that the JCVI's exhortation easily covers a majority of Brits).

Has any other government or advisory group, anywhere else in the world, issued a similar recommendation for such a broad cross-section of inhabitants?

[Glorious Hong Kong]

Meanwhile, in Glorious Britannia!, the JCVI is now recommending that "Men" - who make up half of the population - receive the vaccine as soon as they are offered it (in addition to members of BAME communities, the obese, and residents of deprived neighbourhoods, which means that the JCVI's exhortation easily covers a majority of Brits).

Has any other government or advisory group, anywhere else in the world, issued a similar recommendation for such a broad cross-section of inhabitants?

Proof that Brexit Britain is no longer sexist. Rule Britannia!

[Kannap]

Got a paper as we were leaving work today that informs us that - as essential manufacturing workers - we become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine on March 10th, so depending on supply I may be able to get vaccinated soon.

[San Lumen]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... id-vaccine

FDA panel endorses Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/24/ ... -reported/

Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine appears to fare better against worrisome COVID-19 variants than first reported

[Salandriagado]

So, a while back, I said that we would know that vaccines were having a significant population-level effect when we started seeing negative quadratics in log-scale graphs. We're there.

[San Lumen]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 08351.html

Biden says US ‘weeks ahead of schedule’ and will be first country to 100 million vaccination

[Xmara]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-covid-vaccine-texas-shots-b1808351.html

Biden says US ‘weeks ahead of schedule’ and will be first country to 100 million vaccination

Nice. Hopefully this means we will return to normal sooner than expected.

[Nevertopia]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-covid-vaccine-texas-shots-b1808351.html

Biden says US ‘weeks ahead of schedule’ and will be first country to 100 million vaccination

AS a Canadian Im embarrassed at how the US of all countries will be getting vaccinated before us. Turns out the last few conservative governments gutted the ever living daylights out of our manufacturing capacity to make our own vaccines.

[New Visayan Islands]

Data for PH as of February 27th, 1600 PHT/0300 EST.

Detailed update. Also:

• Almost a new normal for Oz.
• WHO: Acta, non verba, UN. Acta, non verba.
• SK: The road to 70% vaccine takeup starts with 18K!
• Makati City residents: Sinovac? More like Sinovac, no! Note the parenthetical swearing.

[Kowani]

Blood tests may help doctors find early indicators of severe COVID-19 cases

[Australian rePublic]

Everyone's praising NZ, but they're currently upto the forth lockdown. The most lockdowns that any jurisdiction in Auatralia has had was 3, which was the state of Victoria (or more specifically, Melbourne)

[Borderlands of Rojava]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-covid-vaccine-texas-shots-b1808351.html

Biden says US ‘weeks ahead of schedule’ and will be first country to 100 million vaccination

Hopefully I can get mine soon.

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

Everyone's praising NZ, but they're currently upto the forth lockdown. The most lockdowns that any jurisdiction in Auatralia has had was 3, which was the state of Victoria (or more specifically, Melbourne)

Well clearly New Zealand seems to be doing something right with their lockdowns since they’ve had some of the lowest amount of total cases and lowest amount of deaths of the pandemic.

[Rusozak]

Everyone's praising NZ, but they're currently upto the forth lockdown. The most lockdowns that any jurisdiction in Auatralia has had was 3, which was the state of Victoria (or more specifically, Melbourne)

You have to understand it hits different when Covid is all around you, making every time you step out in public you run the risk of bringing death back to your home, where thousands of your countrymen are dying every day from the virus. New Zealand sounds like paradise right now.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

Everyone's praising NZ, but they're currently upto the forth lockdown. The most lockdowns that any jurisdiction in Auatralia has had was 3, which was the state of Victoria (or more specifically, Melbourne)

Everyone is praising NZ because they've done brilliantly. And they're laughing at Australians who say their Tasman cousins don't deserve praise because "4 lockdowns".

New Zealanders aren't exactly humble, but Australians certainly are sore losers.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

Everyone's praising NZ, but they're currently upto the forth lockdown. The most lockdowns that any jurisdiction in Auatralia has had was 3, which was the state of Victoria (or more specifically, Melbourne)

You have to understand it hits different when Covid is all around you, making every time you step out in public you run the risk of bringing death back to your home, where thousands of your countrymen are dying every day from the virus. New Zealand sounds like paradise right now.

The f-ing Gobi Desert sounds like paradise right now. The problem is people! Stay away ET, we're full!

[Nakena]

BHUTAN - The Unlikeliest Pandemic Success Story

How did a tiny, poor nation manage to suffer only one death from the coronavirus?

[Kowani]

Palestine to close schools in the West Bank for 12 days because of rapid rising covid cases

[Galloism]

Meanwhile, in Glorious Britannia!, the JCVI is now recommending that "Men" - who make up half of the population - receive the vaccine as soon as they are offered it (in addition to members of BAME communities, the obese, and residents of deprived neighbourhoods, which means that the JCVI's exhortation easily covers a majority of Brits).

Has any other government or advisory group, anywhere else in the world, issued a similar recommendation for such a broad cross-section of inhabitants?

Huh. I've been saying now for months men are far more likely to die from covid, and are at far greater risk - ergo, they're a higher risk group than similar aged/health condition women.

Good to see someone else recognized it.

Well done UK. Well done.

[Forsher]

Everyone's praising NZ, but they're currently upto the forth lockdown. The most lockdowns that any jurisdiction in Auatralia has had was 3, which was the state of Victoria (or more specifically, Melbourne)

I don't think the case for exiting the third one was solid to start with.

Also, only Auckland's had more than two (and I can't remember if the rest of the country was in level three in August). But, again, more than a third of the country lives in Auckland.

[Stellar Colonies]

Meanwhile, in Glorious Britannia!, the JCVI is now recommending that "Men" - who make up half of the population - receive the vaccine as soon as they are offered it (in addition to members of BAME communities, the obese, and residents of deprived neighbourhoods, which means that the JCVI's exhortation easily covers a majority of Brits).

Has any other government or advisory group, anywhere else in the world, issued a similar recommendation for such a broad cross-section of inhabitants?

This is surprising but welcome news.

Once a vaccine has been fully confirmed to be safe, it should be fast-tracked to groups needing it the most.

[Kowani]

Ecuador health minister resigns over criticism of vaccine distribution plan