Agreed, will get a full blood test done via the GP including anti body testing in the next few days/weeks.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Agreed, will get a full blood test done via the GP including anti body testing in the next few days/weeks.
NHS called me on Friday saying isolation has ended, don’t bother getting tested, you can do what you want. So I took their advice. My test came through negative anyway after their call as I took it before.
From reading it seems symptoms will carry on for a little longer.
This list is missing the Sinopharm one -- it is in phase 3 in UAE and already has emergency use auth. My friend works there and was given the option of taking the jab, but he declined.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/f...-vaccine/79a36e28-685d-4012-ac58-9b351b7ff33c
Thats great for you and your family! How many days was that because my wife is on the same boat and we don’t know how long we have to stay apart for?
Username checks out.
It was 10 days from when symptoms started. It was a tough 10 days! FaceTime’d several times a day but it wasn’t the same.
yeah, we are finding It tough, but worried about catching infection if we cut it off too soon. My wife had no real symptoms, so it’s tough to know where to cut things off.
Has she tested? Was it for work or something? I guess to be safe just do it from the date of the test.
More very good vaccine news.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ective-trials-show?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ective-trials-show?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Look after yourself. At least you are in the right aged group where symptoms are hopefully non-serious.
Yes. Plus a vaccine is designed to produce an immune response without infection. Long covid is the result of infection.
Ok thanks
Yeah, it was just precautionary really. She feels like she may have had body pains last Sunday on reflection but test was Wednesday morning. That means we will have to stay apart until Saturday!
Tough going!
I also don’t know where it leaves me with work if I continue to test negative.
Get well soon and good luck, Eboue.
Cases rising again in Ireland the last five or six days, after it looked like our latest lockdown was succeeding in squashing the spread. Very uncertain on what policy will be heading into Christmas. Very hard to see pubs opening in any capacity.
Not rising but not decreasing. Disappointing but preferable to what’s happening elsewhere. Also not a massive surprise. This lockdown is only the same as the first one on paper. Completely different in practice. Just look at the traffic on the roads every day.
Factoring in the weather it seems completely unrealistic to expect numbers to get as low as they did in summer. So it’s hard to know what the plan is? What’s our goal for this lockdown?
Fingers crossed.
Hate to bring down the slightly positive mood caused by Moderna, but this is a pretty good article on the logistical issues at play when / if a vaccine can reach the needed production levels...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/milit...ccine-rollout-problems-in-texas-and-elsewhere
https://www.thedailybeast.com/milit...ccine-rollout-problems-in-texas-and-elsewhere
Get well soon Eboue.
It's a massive project. The cost and logistical issues of distribution are huge, and it's part of why being first to announce is only a part of the story.
Vaccines with simpler storage requirements (a fridge!) will be needed. A vaccine that works with a single shot (rather than two doses three weeks apart) will be a big deal. And that's before you even look at issues like suitablity across age/comorbidity groups, and price.
Manufacturing, in the short term, isn't a minor issue either. Even big companies like Pfizer are hunting for the right kind of manufacturing capacity.
Smaller companies like Novavax (which has a vaccine at Phase 3) are trying to set up manufacturing deals globally, but meanwhile they've struggled even to get contract manufacturing capacity for their expansion of Phase 3 trials.
That's also a reminder of how these vaccines are cutting the development time. Normally a small company like Novavax would have a much smaller Phase 3 study group running for much longer to get enough cases to check for efficacy. Only then would they go looking for more money (and manufacturing capacity) to increase the number of Phase 3 test subjects.
Incidentally, completing the loop, Novavax may well end up doing a deal with Pfizer. While Pfizer create/expand their mRNA capacity, their older conventional vaccine units may start producing the Novavax vaccine. All very normal stuff in the industry but with arrangements and negotiations taking place over a few weeks, rather than the many months (or even years) that it would normally take.
Sending all the best to everyone who's tested positive - seems like we have more and more people on here who are being affected.
Don't be horrible
Sorry to hear about that. Any idea where/who you may have cought it from?
Well that sucks. Best of luck to you.
Surely at this stage they should just open the pubs that can handle social distancing? I mean already we've seen huge problems with massive drinking sessions at houses/dorms and now all over the streets in the city at the weekend. We're a country where drinking is probably the biggest part of our fecking stupid culture, people will find a way to gather and get pissed, may as well do it in a controlled environment.
I can only imagine the shitshow at Christmas if the pubs are still closed.
So should he be working for free then? End of the day we wouldn’t have PPE if it wasn’t for his services. Left wing Caf at it again.
Exposed by the bbc, no less. Repeatedly accused of right wing bias.
Ah come on, whatever way you look at it, he’s personally made an obscene amount of money akin to a football agent transferring a top footballer. It’s a shocking misuse of public funds
I was just thinking the same thing, I live in a small rural town, and thankfully we have been extremely lucky with very low numbers, so its all been a little distant with regards to my day to day life. Having people who you know (kind of, on here anyway) get it brings it home in quite a sudden way.
Good luck to @Eboue and everyone else, Ill be thinking of you all
My school has just shut for 2 weeks. Too many staff testing positive and a couple of kids too. Was just left with me and another class, didn’t seem worth keeping it open.
Nothing unusual. Guy lives near me has been raking it in since March. Lives in the millionaire row
Maths isn't my strong point but I think there are numbers between 0 and 21,000,000
Certainly sounds like it.
Not sure if serious....
It depends on how involved he was and what the whole deal was worth..
If he was directly responsible for supplying kits that cost about a billion, a 2% fee isnt crazy.
if he didnt do that much or if the whole deal was 100m, then it sounds insane.
If he was directly responsible for supplying kits that cost about a billion, a 2% fee isnt crazy.
if he didnt do that much or if the whole deal was 100m, then it sounds insane.