2019 Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 Discussion

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#2636412 16-Jan-2021 11:56

BBC News - Covid: UK to close all travel corridors from Monday

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The UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to "protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains" of Covid, the PM has said.

Anyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off. ...

All travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday.

After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days. ...

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#2636530 16-Jan-2021 14:51

apparently someone tested ice cream and ice cream tests positive

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-found-in-ice-cream-made-in-china-from-nz-milk-powder/FHZI6HLSKDJZ6O6ZRP64KM7BN4/

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#2636533 16-Jan-2021 15:19

@Scott3: Re the aussie vaccine situation, the big news story there today is that the cira 72% effecancy of the oxford vaccine (that aussie is producing under licence in near Melbourne) is not going to be sufficient to get herd immunity.

It is not known if herd immunity occurs at any level of covid vaccination. In the covid case we know vaccination prevents symptoms and death - we don't know if immune people are also non-infectious at this time. Therefore vaccination effect on R value is not known, as explained by @sbiddle in an earlier post.

Imo it's likely there is some effect on R value based on reducing severity of symptoms but personally I have no real idea about this.

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#2636563 16-Jan-2021 16:52

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BBC News - Covid: UK to close all travel corridors from Monday

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The UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to "protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains" of Covid, the PM has said.

Anyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off. ...

All travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday.

After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days. ...

Which presumably means getting in a taxi at the airport to go to your house/hotel/what ever...

This is what NZ stopped doing in April 2020.....

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#2636570 16-Jan-2021 17:10

CNN: Despite Trump administration promise, government has no more 'reserve' 2nd vaccine doses

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-reserve-dose/index.html

At least AZAR has resigned effective from the 20th!

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#2636573 16-Jan-2021 17:27

msukiwi:

CNN: Despite Trump administration promise, government has no more 'reserve' 2nd vaccine doses

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-reserve-dose/index.html

At least AZAR has resigned effective from the 20th!

Yeah, although to be honest in the grand scheme of things its more a political disaster than a medical one,

Pfizer have 6 US production sites for their Vaccine, and said as last as November 2020 they had the capacity to produce 50 million doses in November and December....

As of today total vaccines given worldwide were 38 million and some of those will be the Moderna one..... There is vaccine out there... its just a question of who has ordered it and were it is in the shipping pipeline..

The US were closing in on 4% of the population having at least one shot..with daily vaccination now over 1 million/Day.. although at that rate it will still take 2 years to give everyone two shots....so more work needed...

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

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#2636584 16-Jan-2021 18:54

Batman:

apparently someone tested ice cream and ice cream tests positive

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-found-in-ice-cream-made-in-china-from-nz-milk-powder/FHZI6HLSKDJZ6O6ZRP64KM7BN4/

Can you keep to topic

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#2636586 16-Jan-2021 18:57

wellygary:

Which presumably means getting in a taxi at the airport to go to your house/hotel/what ever...

This is what NZ stopped doing in April 2020.....

While its hard to say, little sympathy. The formula was there, if you wish to avoid MIQ and allow haircuts, and nails, work, schools, etc, what do you expect?

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#2636587 16-Jan-2021 19:00

msukiwi:

CNN: Despite Trump administration promise, government has no more 'reserve' 2nd vaccine doses

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-reserve-dose/index.html

At least AZAR has resigned effective from the 20th!

Yes, I mentioned in the dick thread. Held back reserves, then back tracked, but there was never any reserves. Its like a school boy age 7 is running that show. At least they now elected an adult, who has already done 1000 X more despite not having the keys yet

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#2636589 16-Jan-2021 19:02

wellygary:

Yeah, although to be honest in the grand scheme of things its more a political disaster than a medical one,

Pfizer have 6 US production sites for their Vaccine, and said as last as November 2020 they had the capacity to produce 50 million doses in November and December....

As of today total vaccines given worldwide were 38 million and some of those will be the Moderna one..... There is vaccine out there... its just a question of who has ordered it and were it is in the shipping pipeline..

The US were closing in on 4% of the population having at least one shot..with daily vaccination now over 1 million/Day.. although at that rate it will still take 2 years to give everyone two shots....so more work needed...

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

What I heard today is that they are just currently doing 900,000 per day so the Biden 100 million in 100 days is very doable. Still few ducks to line up, as production via Trump has been poor, but they can get there.

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#2636624 16-Jan-2021 21:22

Robots can disinfect covid https://www.ign.com/articles/germ-zapping-robots-could-secure-hollywood-sets-from-covid-19?sf122932798=1

Tom Cruise has a few https://www.ign.com/articles/tom-cruise-reportedly-buys-robots-to-enforce-covid-safety-on-film-set

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#2636625 16-Jan-2021 21:29

Norway adjusts advice for frail elderly people after deaths reported (not sure if caused by vaccine - not clear from article)

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/norway-adjusts-covid-19-vaccine-advice-after-small-number-deaths-in-frailest-patients

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#2636774 17-Jan-2021 11:45

We had 10 fatalities of 90+ aged people who died shortly after vaccination. All are definetely NOT related to the vaccine. But as expected some people try to push it in that direction for their conspiracy theories.

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#2636775 17-Jan-2021 11:54

The mutations are here on stage ... and they hit again the nursing homes. Lockdown has already been exttended and will most propably further be extended (some request 'til Easter).

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#2636828 17-Jan-2021 12:43

Boris wants negative tests and "self-isolation" for ten days. We know "self-isolation" doesn't work, so there is this next (story not online yet, out Sunday UK time):

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