This is a pretty interesting roundup of the evidence on vaccine single shot efficacy… the numbers look pretty high for all of them… personally won’t be worrying too much in a week’s time when 3 weeks will have elapsed since my first Moderna shot
https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-vaccine-one-shot-effectiveness-pfizer-moderna-astrazeneca-vaccines-dose-2021-3?r=US&IR=T
Jules72 nice one. Wish we could get some more data on hospitalisations etc with these vaccines and the variants.
Yep - very encouraging all round. Great stuff
The transmission numbers are looking better than I thought.
Doing an antibodies test in 3 weeks time, 3+ weeks after 2nd shot, to see the impact of the drugs on the vaccine efficacy.
Will be interesting to get the results
Along_the_Wire
We have had zero hospitalizations for those vaccinated. Not one person. Variants haven’t been an issue but Brazil and India are now brought up on our morning calls which is was not the case until recently. Rhouses needs to shut up and get their shit under control. We won’t be back to square one but I’d be worried about Covid-21 this winter if they can’t sort themselves out.
jonattonyeah Will the vaccine prevent hospitalisations of those infected with variants JTY?
Along_the_Wire there was an article in the press last week quoting some “expert” in India saying vaccines were still perfectly effective against their variant. But was told by a mate that his parents in law were hospitalised 3 weeks after taking the AZ vaccine… so seems reliable info hard to come by. The Brazilian variant has been known since January so I’m surprised we don’t know much yet, although that’s probably a reflection of crap or non existent data collection in Brazil. Still, it has spread to all sorts of countries (biggest outbreak so far was in Canada) so we will know soon I guess.
I don’t know. We haven’t had any issues with variants. The only people who have tested positive for variants were done so through contact tracing - they have all be asymptomatic with no major issues (certainly no hospitalizations). We caught them somewhat on accident. UCSF is rolling out a antibody study around variants next week which I’ll likely be asked to take part in. That should shed more light. Currently, we’re fine around here. No issues whatsoever. I was on outbreak duty and we don’t have any. So I’m back to AIDS half time as there really wasn’t much to do. California is set to fully open on June 15th.
Jules72 cheers. Given the Kent variant seems to be one of the worst and the vaccine works with that, it gives me some optimism.
jonattonyeah think all positives in the U.K. are checked for variants….thats not the case in the US right Jon? So you’re not going to be picking up the spread particularly well either?
I’ve been in the local throttling back pints!
Godspeed all!
Jules72
No, they’re being checked. Sorry if I was not clear. I mean all the variants we have found have been through contract tracing. Nobody has shown up ill. As for the spread, it’s hard to say. Our testing is not what it was. Nobody is showing up anymore. But as long as we have ICU capacity, we’re not worried about it. Still doing routine testing at various facilities - nursing and residential care - but not one outbreak. Just did one place yesterday that had been a real problem this time last year. A Jewish facility. Not one positive. We test them monthly.
They lifted the alcohol ban here, less than 12 hours into the lockdown. Hail to the sauce!
My feed is alive with updates from the first mask free event in Liverpool tonight. Everyone in tears apparently.
Is that the Circus do?
Feels massively early, no doubt "“protocols in place”" but they’re out the window know the bangers start fizzing!
Mad_Cyril Yeah, thats the one.
Cool. Hope it goes well.
Majorly concerned might be Papa Sven’s first proper big night out for a while !!
Mad_Cyril Majorly concerned might be Papa Sven’s first proper big night out for a while !!
He’s been plague raving it up in India!
Mad_Cyril I’ve never been to this venue in Liverpool, but I reckon the acoustics in there must be rotten.
I would be in tears if I was enduring Yousef as my first night out
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Being the bang on trend ledge that I am, my first night out is to see Dixon and Ame, natch!
