It was inevitable and why I forecast it after the referendum, which was our biggest own goal ever.This is not good news for the economy
Watch Frankfurt and Paris profit too.
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Brexit, for once some facts.
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Watch Frankfurt and Paris profit too.
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Number of antibodies is not necessarily a good measure.
Might be the best we've got at this stage but that makes it even more difficult to make the optimum choices.
Three.I believe you reported this one.
The drug I provided link to is Allocetra. Similar story.
New Israeli Covid drug which cured 30 cases of disease hailed by scientists as 'huge breakthrough'
The EXO-CD24 substance was developed in Tel Aviv and successfully completed its first phase of clinical trials on Fridaywww.telegraph.co.uk
It seems they have found 2 drugs quite recently. Exo cd24 and Allocetra.??? Don't believe they are same..
Asthma drug may reduce risk of severe Covid if taken early – study
Inhaled budesonide could become first treatment in early stages of infection if study confirmed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/asthma-drug-budesonide-may-reduce-risk-severe-covid-if-taken-early-study
And, by gosh!, we can include the word "Oxford" when discussing it. The "Oxford steroid treatment". That fulfills the political requirement as well.
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/research/patients/trials/stoic.aspx
Nah, I want a Cambridge vaccine.And, by gosh!, we can include the word "Oxford" when discussing it. The "Oxford steroid treatment". That fulfills the political requirement as well.
It's all crap out of Oxford:
Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, need I go on?
Oxford can't even row along the Thames without sinking.
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I've added Israel to the the countries I look at regularly on the Covid stats. As I noted resterday, it is way ahead of any other country on cumulative number of vaccinations per person, but I now see it is also second only to Czechia on number of new cases per person (7 day average).
Does anyone know why this is? On the face of things it doesn't make vaccination look that effective. It may partly be down to more rigorous testing and thus actually finding and recording cases?
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Does anyone know why this is? On the face of things it doesn't make vaccination look that effective. It may partly be down to more rigorous testing and thus actually finding and recording cases?
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I think the tests are very unreliable and are recording very large numbers of false positives. As I've remarked elsewhere, the surface presence of the virus in the PCR test does not mean a person is infected, it merely means they were present in the air they breathed, but the test assumes they are infected.
Likewise I'm sure we are greatly over recording the number of deaths due to Covid, thanks to the silly 28 day rule and Covid being an easy cop out for the death certificate entry.
Yes the Covid pandemic is bad, but we are making it appear far worse then it really is. Ask around you if others know anyone who has died of Covid and you soon realise deaths are far more rare than the headlines make them seem.
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Oxford keep talking about Isis. Very dodgy.
They should bring one from Cam out. Mind, use a Pozidriv screw and you all too often get cam out.
I agree they are unreliable but not sure how many are false positive rather than false negative?
Someone I know, husband and son positive and suffering. She then had an uncertain result, repeat test was negative, she is now suffering Covid-19. (Very unpleasant but seems to be surviving.)
Inexpensive really does appear to be true:Three.
Asthma drug may reduce risk of severe Covid if taken early – study
Inhaled budesonide could become first treatment in early stages of infection if study confirmed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/asthma-drug-budesonide-may-reduce-risk-severe-covid-if-taken-early-study
And, by gosh!, we can include the word "Oxford" when discussing it. The "Oxford steroid treatment". That fulfills the political requirement as well.
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/research/patients/trials/stoic.aspx
Pulmicort 100 Turbohaler (AstraZeneca UK Ltd)
| Active ingredients | Size | Unit | NHS indicative price | Drug tariff | Drug tariff price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | dose (POM) | £14.25 | Part VIIIA Category C | £14.25 |
https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/budesonide.html
Trouble is that all the infected people carry on giving positives long after they've got rid of the infection. That's because the test reacts to the dead particles left after infection, not just to the live virus, so a second source of false positives as well as the surface presence one.
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Sobering thought:
Good morning, Amelia Hill here bringing you the thought-provoking news that the director of the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium, Sharon Peacock, has just told the BBC that the coronavirus variant first found in the British region of Kent is likely to sweep around the world and the battle with the virus is going to go on for at least a decade.
The Kent variant has “swept the country” and “it’s going to sweep the world, in all probability,” the head of the UK’s genetic surveillance programme said, told the BBC.
“Once we get on top of [the virus] or it mutates itself out of being virulent - causing disease - then we can stop worrying about it. But I think, looking in the future, we’re going to be doing this for years. We’re still going to be doing this 10 years down the line, in my view.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/feb/11/coronavirus-live-news-two-masks-substantially-reduce-exposure-italy-to-reopen-ski-resorts
Good morning, Amelia Hill here bringing you the thought-provoking news that the director of the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium, Sharon Peacock, has just told the BBC that the coronavirus variant first found in the British region of Kent is likely to sweep around the world and the battle with the virus is going to go on for at least a decade.
The Kent variant has “swept the country” and “it’s going to sweep the world, in all probability,” the head of the UK’s genetic surveillance programme said, told the BBC.
“Once we get on top of [the virus] or it mutates itself out of being virulent - causing disease - then we can stop worrying about it. But I think, looking in the future, we’re going to be doing this for years. We’re still going to be doing this 10 years down the line, in my view.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/feb/11/coronavirus-live-news-two-masks-substantially-reduce-exposure-italy-to-reopen-ski-resorts
true, it's just one measure.
One TV doctor puts it, 'the vaccine moves the curve to the left' meaning the vaccine lessens the severity of the disease in a person. How much to the left depends on the concentration of antibodies, how much the original viral load is going to be neutralised or how ready the body is prepared to resist.
Careful your paranoia is showing. AZ make a very useful vaccine. Other health authorities around the world are delighted to have it. However some are more Prudent than in the UK and are stricting its use to those groups where the evidence is strong that it is effective and ensuring that it is applied in the manner which has been evidenced as being effective.
perhaps a little exaggerated.
In the next year or two, we'll see effective treatment against particular variants.
Did you hear what she said or are you going on hearsay ( The Daily Mail being a well regarded impartial source for EU matters .) I would like to think I reported what she said yesterday.?
Ursula von der Leyen says sorry over 'late' EU vaccine shambles
European commission president Ursula von der Leyen also conceded its rollout was still not 'where we want to be' in a humbling speech in Brussels.www.dailymail.co.uk
At least she has grace to apologise.??
She apologised without any equivocation about the confusion regarding the NI Protocol. She did not in any sense apologise for seeking to retain a pan European solidarity in vaccine rollout. She did not apologise,and was extremely clear in the matter of ensuring that full medical protocols were carried out before injecting active biological materials into healthy humans.. her medical training coming to the fore. And she did apologise for shortcomings in the supply chain , and their failure (EU) to anticipate bottlenecks.
I came across one of those odd medical you tube videos which in its own way might explain some of the anomalies. It was dated a number of months ago, when people were trying to get a grip. In full autopsies carried out on known fatal victims . All had heavy doses of CV19 in their lungs, but 1/4 had none in their nasal cavity . So when they were alive, they would have been false negatives.
Unless it is a reverse correlation. And Asthma protects from CV19 and the inhaler is the indicator.
Which is an interesting observation itself.
Suggests that just breathing does not emit sufficient viral particles to reach and remain in the nasal cavity. Maybe deep coughing does spread, whereas even sneezing doesn't?
Could mouth-breathing be a factor - whether it affects rate of transmission, rates of infection, how badly you suffer, or anything else!
The only point I quibble here is "It's a matter of political judgement". It should be a matter of medical/ clinical research judgement and then political decision
Not all asthmatics get steroid-based medications. Some get by on, for example, ventolin or whatever alone.
I'd expect checking that would be reasonably straightforward?