timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 4:52 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 2:09 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 10:56 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 7:05 pm Experts warn vaccines are 'almost certainly less effective' at reducing transmission of Indian variant

Adding to concerns, Dr Harnden today revealed that Britain's vaccine rollout - hailed as the key to preventing another wave - may not stop the virus infecting the vulnerable.

He said the jab is not only 'less effective against mild disease', it is 'almost certainly less effective against transmission' - partly because immunisation only begins three weeks after the vaccine is given.

It seems that this is just going to go on and on and on... When will it ever end?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... riant.html

The Serum Institute of India has developed a vaccine that protects against the Indian variant.

It's called the PunJab

It doesn't protect. My friend had it and went on to catch that very same variant. He was in a korma for 2 weeks.

That's enough from you, dhal. He obviously didn't have the tikka for it. Antivaxxers will be having naan of it.

hburns wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 12:14 am

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 4:52 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 2:09 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 10:56 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 7:05 pm Experts warn vaccines are 'almost certainly less effective' at reducing transmission of Indian variant



It seems that this is just going to go on and on and on... When will it ever end?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... riant.html

The Serum Institute of India has developed a vaccine that protects against the Indian variant.

It's called the PunJab

It doesn't protect. My friend had it and went on to catch that very same variant. He was in a korma for 2 weeks.

That's enough from you, dhal. He obviously didn't have the tikka for it. Antivaxxers will be having naan of it.

Shortly after receiving their jabs, 20% of men reported having a large bhuna

Username Taken wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 12:24 pm Queensland scientists discover COVID-19 drug treatment
May 18, 2021

Queensland researchers and a US team have developed an antiviral therapy that has killed off the COVID-19 viral load in infected mice by 99.9 per cent.

Lead researcher Professor Nigel McMillan, from Griffith University, called it a "seek and destroy mission" where the therapy genetically targeted the potentially deadly virus.

They used a "next-generation" viral approach using gene-silencing RNA technology to attack the virus genome directly, which stops the virus spreading.

"It causes the genome to be destroyed and the virus can't grow anymore — so we inject the nanoparticles and they go and find the virus and destroy it just like a heat-seeking missile," Professor McMillan said.

"This is the first time we have been able to package this up as a particle, send it through the blood stream to attack the virus.

A study by Public Health England found the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 88% effective against symptomatic disease from the B.1.617.2 [Indian] variant two weeks after the second dose.

That compared with 93% effectiveness against the B.1.1.7 "Kent" strain which is Britain's dominant COVID variant.

Two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were 60% effective against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant compared with 66% effectiveness against the Kent variant, PHE said.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 12:32 pm A recent Suan Dusit poll asked people for their confidence in #COVID19 vaccine:
1. Pfizer 75.11%
2. Moderna 72.14%
3. Johnson & Johnson 68.52%
4. AstraZeneca 65.89%
5. Sputnik V 61.89%
* Sinovac didn't make it in the top five

I'll be waiting for the Pfizer or Moderna, even if i need pay

For the free national roll-out, you cannot choose. It is either going to be Sinovac (which is the main one now) or AstraZeneca (which is the main one in June). For others you either have to fly abroad or wait until the end of the year for private hospitals to sell them #Thailand

JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) - Sinovac Biotech Ltd's vaccine is wiping out Covid-19 among health workers in Indonesia, an encouraging sign for the dozens of developing countries reliant on the controversial Chinese shot, which performed far worse than Western vaccines in clinical trials.

Indonesia tracked 25,374 health workers in capital city Jakarta for 28 days after they received their second dose and found that the vaccine protected 100 per cent of them from death and 96 per cent from hospitalisation as soon as seven days after, said Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in an interview on Tuesday (May 11). The workers were tracked until late February.

Mr Sadikin also said that 94 per cent of the workers had been protected against infection - an extraordinary result that goes beyond what was measured in the shot's numerous clinical trials - though it's unclear if the workers were uniformly screened to detect asymptomatic carriers.

"We see a very, very drastic drop," in hospitalisations and deaths among medical workers, Mr Sadikin said.

nemo wrote:I prefer science to the "feelings" of mostly unvaccinated Thais in a media poll.

JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) - Sinovac Biotech Ltd's vaccine is wiping out Covid-19 among health workers in Indonesia, an encouraging sign for the dozens of developing countries reliant on the controversial Chinese shot, which performed far worse than Western vaccines in clinical trials.

Indonesia tracked 25,374 health workers in capital city Jakarta for 28 days after they received their second dose and found that the vaccine protected 100 per cent of them from death and 96 per cent from hospitalisation as soon as seven days after, said Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in an interview on Tuesday (May 11). The workers were tracked until late February.

Mr Sadikin also said that 94 per cent of the workers had been protected against infection - an extraordinary result that goes beyond what was measured in the shot's numerous clinical trials - though it's unclear if the workers were uniformly screened to detect asymptomatic carriers.

"We see a very, very drastic drop," in hospitalisations and deaths among medical workers, Mr Sadikin said.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east- ... orld-study