Initial study brings hope vaccine will reduce Covid transmission
www.theguardian.com
Good news, but early.. Our resident hypocrite will find something negative no doubt.
Jeremy Farrar says further virus mutations that reduce jab efficacy should be expected
www.ft.com
Rather more sobering.
Cheer up, I've found someone with lots of faith in the first vaccine dose,
You might remember me posting this back in January:
"Early last year I was planning to get some dental treatment but the arrival of covid scuppered that hope since it appeared no dentist would consider a high risk person in their 80s for non emergency treatment. Therefore the arrival of a vaccine even in a two stage 21 days was welcome since it could convince a dentist I'm safe enough to treat. That is my sole interest in getting vaccinated that way with both doses."
Well my usual dentist has on the strength of me getting the first jab given me an appointment for the 22nd February after only a one year wait, so he seems to think the first dose has magical protection for dentists !
I also included this in that same post:
"I am not in the least interested in rushing to get the protection against Covid that any vaccines offer or even getting it at all. That's because my circumstances mean I am at very low risk from infection but quite high risk of dying soon anyway."
So I'm now not interested in rushing to a second jab and would rather wait until there's one that deals with the difficult variants or just go without. That's because my risk of infection now is so much lower compared with last year when I didn't catch it anyway.
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