(06-14-2021, 09:22 PM)guohua Wrote: Finally some common sense, well sort of and a Way To Late!
By Sunday, the head of the EMA health threats said people over 60 should avoid the Astrazeneca vaccine, according to Reuters.
EMA safety committee on Friday said that capillary leak syndrome is a new side effect after taking AstraZeneca’s vaccine. There’s been widespread skepticism surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine for months due to rare and deadly blood clots.
Even though EMA considers the vaccine safe for all ages, several EU member states have halted administering it to people in the 55 to 65 range due to blood clotting. To date, 78 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine shots have been given in the EU and U.K.
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No-one should be getting these shot, JMHO.
And yet -even after being told by Boris Johnson stating a delay on the lifting of the lockdown, we're told this...
Quote:All adults in England able to book Covid jabs ‘by end of week’Archived Guardian Article:
Head of NHS says he expects booking service to be opened up to all over-18s in next few days
'Every adult in England will be able to book their first Covid-19 vaccination from the end of this week,
the head of the NHS has disclosed. Sir Simon Stevens said appointment slots would be opened to
everyone aged 18 and above within a few days, to help the health service “finish the job” of vaccinating
the entire adult population.
He said it was vital that almost 6 million Britons aged 40 or over had their second dose of vaccine in the
weeks between now and 19 July, the delayed date on which Boris Johnson hopes to ease restrictions in
England on social mixing. It was due to be 21 June, until the date was put back four weeks on Monday night.
“Today people aged 23 and 24 are able to book through the national booking service and I expect that by
the end of this week we’ll be able to open up the national booking service to all adults aged 18 and above,”
Stevens said in a speech to the NHS Confederation’s annual conference.
He said 91% of people aged 50 and over in England had already had both vaccine doses, which confers
the greatest possible protection against becoming seriously unwell with Covid.
“But that still means that there are 1.3 million people for whom the opportunity stands, and for people in their
40s we’ve got 4.5 million people who have had one jab but not yet their second jab. “Given the decision
announced last night to begin offering that now, after eight weeks rather than after 12, those second jabs
for people in their 40s and above is a crucial part of what the next month needs to look like in the run-up to
19 July,” said Stevens, who is stepping down in late July as NHS England’s chief executive after more than
seven years in post.
Supply of the four vaccines now in use remained limited by their availability, he said. “Of course vaccine supply
continues to be constrained, so we’re pacing ourselves at precisely the rate at which we’re getting the extra
vaccine supply between now and 19 July.”
Stevens also said:
Two vaccine doses “are as effective, if not more so, in preventing hospitalisations for the more transmissible
Delta [Indian] variant than for the Alpha [Kent] variant”. As a result the NHS was “in a much better position now
than we were this time last year, when we had an equivalently modest number of hospital Covid patients across
the country, precisely because of the protective wall that vaccinations provide”.
1% of hospital beds in England are occupied by people with Covid.
The vaccination programme means that patients in hospital now with Covid are generally younger than in the second
wave in January that left the NHS struggling to cope. “The age distribution has really flipped as a result of vaccination.
Whereas back in January it was 60/40 – 60% were occupied by people over 65 and 40% [by those] under 65 – now
it’s flipped to 70/30.
So it’s about 30% occupied by people aged 65 and over, [and] 70% are younger people whose prospects are much
greater,” Stevens said...'
So the way it's turned out is that after hammering on via the media that vaccines are a 'game-changer' and that
receiving one injection and then two, should interrupt the transmission of Covid-19 and steer us back to normality,
a variant appears and f*cks things up.
Yet the public are still urged to get the vaccine, even though England is supposedly 90% Variant-Delta (India) infected.
The original virus has gone on holiday and somehow -with all the restrictions in place, this new mutation of Covid-19
has travelled all around the country.
So if the virus travels via the human respiratory system and is now all over England, what makes the Government think
that over-18's 'in the next couple of days' will take the injection?!
Or to put it another way, if vaccination in the UK is so successful and is effective against the new variant, how has the
Delta travelled so far and caused the delay?!
I call bullshit.
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