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With them threatening Pfizer they are being really think and taking a short termism approach.
Basically Pfizer are restructuring their plant in Belgium too allow a much higher output. So by reducing output for a few weeks they can provide a much higher output after that and for a longer time. Chances are the delivery they then got for throwing the toys about was destined for a different country with less impact.
Basically the Italian government is being Billy big balls so it looks good for the media.
I don't know what has gone on with the az ones other than the media reporting production issues. Guess what, that happens, I have heard of million pound (production cost) batches of medicines getting binned due to production errors. The difference is with those medicines is that there is usually a stockpile already with the vaccine there is none
if that stat bears out – a 35 year old is statistically more likely to suffer long covid, than an 80 year old is to die. We save a whole load of folk for a few years, and have a raft of people with long term respiratory damage?
Yep..
Although I'm assuming that long covid is an all encapsulating term for symptoms over 3 months. I'm hoping that most of those cases will be feeling a bit shitty and losing focus a bit at work, rather than enlarged hearts, permanently scarred lungs and being confined to a wheelchair for the forseable.
a 35 year old is statistically more likely to suffer long covid, than an 80 year old is to die
Not sure I follow your working on this?
I’m assuming that long covid is an all encapsulating term for symptoms over 3 months
5 weeks and over was the definition I saw. Any symptom from a mild cough upwards.
Not sure I follow your working on this?
I think his logic is that young folks have a 1 in 10 chance of long covid (as reported by the ons - and yes it's one in 10 that show symptoms etc etc), yet if you are 80 you have around a 1 in 12 chance of dying with it.
Tbf I'd much rather have a 1 in 10 chance of long covid than one 1 in 12 of dying, but it does somewhat underline the health crisis we are going to be facing. Badlywireddog's post makes very sobering reading.
That is precisely the point of vaccinations, to provide herd immunity.
Correct me if im wrong, but I was under the impression heard immunity was something we gained from being exposed to the virus like say chickenpoxs? Giving people a vaccine isn't really herd immunity right its immunising a population. I maybe wrong though im not even am armchair scientists.
I might be wrong but I was under the impression that herd immunity was where enough of the population is immune then the virus cannot spread and then {kinda} dies out as it has "nowhere to go".
That immunity can come from prior infection or vaccination.
Probably wrong but sounds good!
chaps, get thee to the main thread.