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Theresa Green

Theresa Green

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I understand that the County Showground County Suite will take over from the Kingston Centre, whilst Holmcroft will remain weekends only

Stafford taxis are said to delighted
 
basil

basil

don't mention the blinds
Death clearly is inevitable

Death arrives eventually

Painful death is avoidable

Premature death can be attributed......
 
Theresa Green

Theresa Green

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Valneva Covid vaccine outperforms AstraZeneca jab in trials​

Hannah Kuchler

Valneva’s Covid-19 vaccine elicits a stronger immune response and far fewer side effects than the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, according to trial results published a month after the UK terminated its €1.4bn deal with the French vaccine maker.
The first data from the phase 3 trial showed participants who were given the Valneva vaccine had more neutralising antibodies than those who received the AstraZeneca shot.
Adam Finn, professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol and trial chief investigator, said the immune responses were “both impressive and extremely encouraging”.
“This is a much more traditional approach to vaccine manufacture than the vaccines so far deployed in the UK, Europe and North America and these results suggest this vaccine candidate is on track to play an important role in overcoming the pandemic,” he said.
Shares in Valneva fell 42 per cent in one day last month after the UK government said it was ending its agreement to purchase at least 100m doses of the vaccine. The government accused the vaccine maker of being in breach of the deal, which Valneva strenuously denied.
 
SketchyMagpie

SketchyMagpie

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Covid ZOE predicts we have surpassed one million active infections again for only the second time.

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SketchyMagpie

SketchyMagpie

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Yeah, I have a friend who's son has just tested positive from school despite not having left the house for anything else, must be infuriating as a parent.
 
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SketchyMagpie

SketchyMagpie

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Jonah said:
"Predicts"... no guarantee that they are the actual number of people infected. It all appears to be guesswork to me.
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Their estimations have proven to be accurate over the last 18 months when compared to other sources, including the ONS. Researchers from King's College London validated their methodology last year in leading public health journal The Lancet which you can find online here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(20)30269-3/fulltext
 
Jonah

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
If it is correct, it will only help the government achieve its aim of herd immunity.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Herd immunity is just their preferred term for lets feck about and find out, they don't have a strategy other than to watch who dies with vague interest and hope the survivors don't catch it again.

How many variants are there now?
 
SketchyMagpie

SketchyMagpie

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I'm not sure how the vaccine drive will have affected this (probably not so much now since protection has waned and the booster uptake is slow), but something else I read in that "Failure of State" book was that modelling on our behaviour shows that herd immunity is not likely to be something that we can ever reach "naturally" because society responds to the NHS becoming overwhelmed by reducing its activities. So at the point where we would need infections to continue spreading like wildfire, the virus would lose a large percentage of potential hosts as we voluntarily hide away and so immunity would never reach the required level and this would be a disaster for the NHS.
 
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