Herd immunity figures, are around 60-65% or so as I have seenā¦ but key is to have all who are potentially at high risk of hospitalization and death to be included in that percentage
the good news is that with the AZ/OX vaccine, it reduced hospitalisations to zero in the group after one doseā¦ but for how long?
Apparently itās thought to be pretty good so farā¦the test are still ongoing of course.
Yep efficacy looks really good. The key will be getting 12 months cover as it were so going forward at worst its an annual booster, which can then be targeted more effectivelyā¦ we wonāt get that data for another 6 months or so, but signs are good.
Encouraging, but also note that it was tested against a Lab modified strain with only 1 mutation.
There are still concerns mainly with the SA strain having many mutations, and still EVERYONE Hopeās it does work.
A 6 month delay for a modified jab could be an utter disaster globally
The really worrying thing is that democracy is supposed to be a release valve and it just isnāt. Thatās how the Yanks got Trumped.
Apologies to lifeintheslowlane, I know he usually posts the Dr Campbellās updates, but someone sent me this earlier and Iāve just watched it. There are clearly worrying times ahead, he is clearly very concerned about the situation.
Yes I watched it about an hour agoā¦He says tomorrowās briefing on the ongoing progress of immunity and the Vaccination programme will strike a more positive note. The future looks brighter although not the immediate future.
Future also depends on the rest of the planet getting vaccinated.
That aināt going so well at the momentā¦
But good to see the RAF helping out
As expected our 2nd vaccination dose has been cancelled.
Thankfully we are a very cautious household so hopefully wonāt be an issue.
Inadvertently a guinea pig.
Yes I shall watch him tomorrow. He really does have a gift of explaining things in a simple way, cutting through all the bullshit. Letās hope his optimism about the future is right, although the next month at least is going to be very difficult. Todayās death figures are shocking enough, 1,325, but it looks like we aināt seen nothing yet. Government Sage are warning that these figures will keep rising for around five weeks or so, thatās providing lockdown is adhered to which opens another can of worms.
āEven if we vaccinated all over-80s today we would not see a change in the death rates for five weeks or so, and it will not impact on hospitalisation for a long time afterwards, ( when the over 60s have been vaccinated. It is impossible to overemphasise the seriousness of the current situation. We are in a much worse position than we were in March.ā
So five weeks of K1+ deaths a day for five weeks, and logic dictates it will surely be higher. Todays figures reflect people who caught the virus when infections were running at 30,000 a day. Today itās nearly 70,000, and likely to rise. We can all do the maths.
Yep you see the figures and itās not easy to stem the anger and this has happened for months now. How can this scenario be played out again with out calling to mind Albert Einsteinās supposed famous line: āInsanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.ā
Only this time the results are far worse. 
273 new cases in Krakow.
7 deaths.
Borders closed.
Pray we can keep the Kent variant at bay with lockdown 4 plus until they get round to my jab.
Daughter is in Epping Borough. Now saying 1 in 13 have it. Lots of their friends have been observing Tier 4 & doing minimal shopping yet have caught it
Borisās Christmas present to the peopleā¦
Thatās just over the other side of the Forest from us. 
Weāve had over 3000 positive tests in last 7 days and 1128 in 100000.
My friend told me about a delivery driver for a large shopping chain who had a cough and temp. He went off to get a test. But work place also had some tests. That was negative so the boss wanted him in. Just before he headed off to work he got the nhs positive test back. Phew.
This lock down doesnāt feel like the others at all. The schools seem busier when I call them.
Talking to families theyāve been going all over the place to stay with that member of family etc.
Iāve seen police reports about parties too.
In tier 4 times I saw many people meeting up in larger groups especially parents with kids meeting up with friends. Theyād arrive up in Epping Forest in their Range Rovers and pretend they werenāt meeting up.
Palestinians living in Israel proper are covered, but those in the areas under Palestinian Authority (i.e. the Occupied Territories) will fall under that governmentās vaccine plan. From what Iāve read it is far less well funded and organised than the Israeli rollout.
Just been out for a daily bit of exercise in a local park. It was busy and people who have met up with their buddy are not keeping to the 2 metres distance. They had cordoned off the gym area but some guy decided he wanted to do some chin ups. There were several groups of more that 2 people who really werenāt living in the same house. The skate park had a lot of red tape around it but we couldnāt work out if it had been torn down in part of just taping off the benches around it. The childrenās play area was rammed.
We wonāt be going back anytime soon. We are going to find some other walks nearby.
We also did wear our masks whilst in the park. A first.
This time around I think it is too relaxed still.
Do you have a lot of Pompey fans near you?
Here is an interesting fact which will shed some light on the futility of trying to get our dickhead populace to follow the rules
During the WW2, when the blitz was raging and the chances of being blown to bits at home was only too real, the govt made 925k prosecutions for failure to adhere to black out procedures
The human race has been fucking stupid for ever
It makes you wonder how we ever progressed from chucking spears and chasing our dinner
