How many have been vaccinated so far?
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basherX said:
Mrs B has lost her vaccination card. What’s the drill in that case? A quick Google didn’t help me so asking the assembled wise company. Ta.
Not a worry as the covid jab will appear in her GP medical record.Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.
chip* said:
Not a worry as the covid jab will appear in her GP medical record.
Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.
Thank you. Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.
frisbee said:
basherX said:
Mrs B has lost her vaccination card. What’s the drill in that case? A quick Google didn’t help me so asking the assembled wise company. Ta.
Prison and repeated beatings!1- we will have to give you 2 jabs to make up the 'losted' vaccination.
2- I am afraid all the nurses with the steady hands are fully booked, but the cubicle with the trainee vaccinator is free...
The vaccination card isn't critical, but it's a quick useful check during the 2nd jab to identify the punters who are booked in for the wrong vaccine (rare, but it does happen) or those who turned up on the wrong day / wrong vaccine (very common).
chip* said:
Not a worry as the covid jab will appear in her GP medical record.
Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.
Ah, so it does, thanks.Just download the NHS app (also available on 3rd party app such as MyGP or Patients Access) and link the account to your GP medical records.
For reference, refer back to the previous page where I posted a screenshot taken from the NHS app confirming my covid jabs.
It's under GP Records -> Medicines -> Acute (short term) medicines, and there it is, complete with date of poke in arm.
ukwill said:
I think it's clear why lots of money has been spent on this virus, in comparison to other viruses. Thankfully, a direct consequence of this focused spending will be benefits seen in numerous other areas of scientific study; so the spending is not only helping the planet resolve it's Covid issue.
IgM abs dont hang around, but IgG abs can hang around for a long time. Those infected with Sars-cov1 typically had IgG ab's for 2-3yrs. And with luck (and more studies highlighting this), B & T-Cells might well end up providing the long term protection.
The curve ball(s) is / are going to be mutations / variants that develop escape mutations. The Bengal SARS-CoV-2 variant is being closely studied as we speak because it has 2 potential escape mutations.IgM abs dont hang around, but IgG abs can hang around for a long time. Those infected with Sars-cov1 typically had IgG ab's for 2-3yrs. And with luck (and more studies highlighting this), B & T-Cells might well end up providing the long term protection.
Maximus_Meridius101 said:
ukwill said:
I think it's clear why lots of money has been spent on this virus, in comparison to other viruses. Thankfully, a direct consequence of this focused spending will be benefits seen in numerous other areas of scientific study; so the spending is not only helping the planet resolve it's Covid issue.
IgM abs dont hang around, but IgG abs can hang around for a long time. Those infected with Sars-cov1 typically had IgG ab's for 2-3yrs. And with luck (and more studies highlighting this), B & T-Cells might well end up providing the long term protection.
The curve ball(s) is / are going to be mutations / variants that develop escape mutations. The Bengal SARS-CoV-2 variant is being closely studied as we speak because it has 2 potential escape mutations.IgM abs dont hang around, but IgG abs can hang around for a long time. Those infected with Sars-cov1 typically had IgG ab's for 2-3yrs. And with luck (and more studies highlighting this), B & T-Cells might well end up providing the long term protection.
What is the death rate/population in India?
anonymous said:
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Because that's how science works... Hypothesis, confirmed or refuted by data.When we have the capability of unpicking the genome pretty quickly, we have the ability to determine reasonable hypotheses that we can then track/monitor/develop conclusions via data as it comes.
anonymous said:
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The reporting might "suit the politics" (although frankly I don't ascribe with the conspiracy theories, we've a roadmap it's happening, sweet) - but this sort of scienctific review and hypothesis is constant (and in all 'directions'). Vaccine escape mutations are real, and any potential identified example needs to be pursued... It's not the scientist's fault if media pick up on it - or that people cannot notice the qualifiers and get scared...
After all, it didn't work on you... You can see it's a hypothesis thanks to the qualifiers used.
anonymous said:
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At the risk of wandering off the topic of vaccination again - surface transmission - we know now that while it is a factor in Covid transmission, it's not a major one in most situations and that most transmission is airborne. We did not know that then, we were working on best guesses based on viruses we thought were similar, which is why we were focusing on handwashing and disinfection of surfaces and not initially on masks, ventilation and avoiding indoor spaces. It seemed less likely that it was primarily airborne on the evidence available at the time - I wonder what the awkward squad would have made of measures against airborne transmission being introduced at that point on a purely precautionary basis? They made enough of a fuss when those measures were introduced with evidence to back them.
vaud said:
To be fair he is right. It may be an issue, it may not be. He isn't saying "DOOM it will kill us all".
Given what is happening in India right now, we should rightly be monitoring it.
There was a great caption on one of the dailymail scare stories about India. It was along the lines of “there are 150 ICU beds for 29 million people in Delhi”Given what is happening in India right now, we should rightly be monitoring it.
Now I can see some slight differences in the health service in India versus the UK, can you?
I’m not worried.
otolith said:
At the risk of wandering off the topic of vaccination again - surface transmission - we know now that while it is a factor in Covid transmission, it's not a major one in most situations and that most transmission is airborne. We did not know that then, we were working on best guesses based on viruses we thought were similar, which is why we were focusing on handwashing and disinfection of surfaces and not initially on masks, ventilation and avoiding indoor spaces.
It seemed less likely that it was primarily airborne on the evidence available at the time - I wonder what the awkward squad would have made of measures against airborne transmission being introduced at that point on a purely precautionary basis? They made enough of a fuss when those measures were introduced with evidence to back them.
The airborne vector was discussed on this forum very early on (and there was an open letter published by many medics on the frontline wanting the airborne nature of Covid-19 given more consideration). The speed of global transmission made the droplet/surface vector spread less likely without additional considerations (asymptomatic spreaders anyone?) unless all the global travellers spent their flights licking all the surfaces? This has been airborne since day 1 - and therefore a single ply cloth mask does nothing to reduce the spread. It seemed less likely that it was primarily airborne on the evidence available at the time - I wonder what the awkward squad would have made of measures against airborne transmission being introduced at that point on a purely precautionary basis? They made enough of a fuss when those measures were introduced with evidence to back them.
Harrison Bergeron said:
vaud said:
To be fair he is right. It may be an issue, it may not be. He isn't saying "DOOM it will kill us all".
Given what is happening in India right now, we should rightly be monitoring it.
There was a great caption on one of the dailymail scare stories about India. It was along the lines of “there are 150 ICU beds for 29 million people in Delhi”Given what is happening in India right now, we should rightly be monitoring it.
Now I can see some slight differences in the health service in India versus the UK, can you?
I’m not worried.
I'll let you figure out what that reason may be.
If you can, perhaps you might then realise that it's not a report to strike fear in the UK, as yes, things are a bit different here in terms of healthcare capacities.
Sway said:
There's quite a lot of people in the UK who really do care about what's happening in India right now, and how prepared their health service is (as we now that when systems like that get overloaded, they collapse utterly and end up causing the things they're implemented to prevent)...
I'll let you figure out what that reason may be.
If you can, perhaps you might then realise that it's not a report to strike fear in the UK, as yes, things are a bit different here in terms of healthcare capacities.
That’s like comparing two methods of storing petrol.I'll let you figure out what that reason may be.
If you can, perhaps you might then realise that it's not a report to strike fear in the UK, as yes, things are a bit different here in terms of healthcare capacities.
One is a barrel with holes in it and a book of lit matches nearby and the other is the standard 10000litre tank with bunds and fire suppression.
Can you work out which country goes where in this analogy?
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