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13 hours ago, MuckleMoo said:

Received a letter from the government asking to take part in the Covid 19 infection survey.

Initial visit consists of a swab and blood sample then a visit once every week for 4 weeks to take further swabs. After that it is a visit every month for 11 months where again they will take bloods and a swab.

Good thing is that I'll be getting tested on a regular basis and will be told the results. Bonus is that I get a £25 voucher for every visit

A lassie from work was talking about this on Friday. Do you need to have had covid to take part? 

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9 hours ago, welshbairn said:

If they make rules for Christmas that most people will ignore, and they get into the habit of ignoring through New Year and after, that's public health policy fucked, whether you agree with the strategy or not. Get the number of infected people down before Christmas so when you let people do what they're going to do anyway, there will be fewer people spreading the virus to set off a major spike.

^^^consistently parrots and/or defends whatever he hears said by officialdom on the state broadcaster.

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22 minutes ago, mizfit said:

Oxford vaccine is 70% effective.

Apparently one of the dosing regimes tested is about 90% efficacy:

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-oxford-vaccine-is-up-to-90-effective-in-preventing-coronavirus-tests-show-12134940

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Well, headlines may focus on the fact it's only 70% effective in comparison to Pfizer and Moderna but it's meant to be far easier to transport so that may mean that it's a lot easier to get out into the population on a larger scale.  70% in the immediate term certainly shouldn't be sniffed at, and if they can tweak the way it's administered to provide 90% then even better.   Something like 4 million doses are ready and awaiting approval from regulators - you'd think that may be an expedited process given the situation we find ourselves in.  

Am I  right in thinking that this is the one that is manufactured in Livingston?   

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Seems a bit weird to see the headline figure and find it a bit disappointing. In reality, if it stops people becoming ill enough to require hospitalisation then the vaccine has done its job. 

Interesting that the most effective method was was to administer it with a half dose and then the full dose as a follow up which brings the efficacy up to 90%. Looks like the way forward. 

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How come the other two vaccines need two doses and were reported as such while this one has 70% with one and ~90% with two. What's the difference in why they didn't just report this one as two doses for 90%?

Genuine question, I don't really understand. 

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