2019 Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 Discussion

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#2746721 19-Jul-2021 15:28

Oblivian:

Batman:

what's the best way to register for the vaccine again?

website (please post link again) vs GP vs wait to be called?

is group 4 eligible yet?

The official website ignores you unless you have a booking reference. (badly broken as it is meant to take your details for later)

DHB/healthline may bump you and get you a reference if you categorically fall into group 3 but didn't get the auto invite or notification that one would come (IE your details likely wrong and they don't use snailmail) but classify you during a call.

I've heard of younger folk with health issues push the fact and get one.

Down in the central 03 are wayyyy off the list so far. Likely mid Aug/Sept starting. Earliest I could get was Aug2 after being re-classified last week.

ok so no point trying to get vaccinated unless you stumble into a tent like some people have

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#2746728 19-Jul-2021 15:55

From Stuff:

Two mariners onboard a quarantined container ship at Bluff have tested positive for Covid-19, the Ministry of Health confirmed.

The Mattina container ship arrived at port on Sunday night, with all 21 crew undergoing testing on Monday morning.

The vessel sailed direct to Bluff leaving Fremantle (Perth) 9 days ago.

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#2746733 19-Jul-2021 16:06

Fred99:

From Stuff:

Two mariners onboard a quarantined container ship at Bluff have tested positive for Covid-19, the Ministry of Health confirmed.

The Mattina container ship arrived at port on Sunday night, with all 21 crew undergoing testing on Monday morning.

The vessel sailed direct to Bluff leaving Fremantle (Perth) 9 days ago.

Apparently there was a crew change/additional crew boarded in Singapore on July 2.... So that's a very long incubation period,

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#2746740 19-Jul-2021 16:20

Petrie Dish host merry-go-round?

Now about the 40% of port workforce not done yet....

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#2746745 19-Jul-2021 16:22

wellygary:

Apparently there was a crew change/additional crew boarded in Singapore on July 2.... So that's a very long incubation period,

I thought maybe testing has picked up historic recovered (non-infectious) cases, however "Health officials said the condition of the two symptomatic cases was "improving"."

So either a long incubation period and/or the skipper had a good inkling as to what was going on and managed to isolate the sick crew members - at least if the remaining crew continue to test negative.

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#2746750 19-Jul-2021 16:35

Oblivian:

Petrie Dish host merry-go-round?

Now about the 40% of port workforce not done yet....

55% of that workforce on 9 July - so it's more terrible than your figure.

Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins yesterday (July 8) said he was “not even close” to being satisfied with the rate of port worker vaccination.

“The port workers have the highest unvaccinated rate for our border workforce, that is something I am concerned about,” Hipkins said.

"Concerned" isn't even close to how I feel about that.

I doubt it's because of (lack of) availability of vaccine either. The only port worker I know is unlikely to have contact with crew (office job in cargo planning). He was vaccinated months ago.

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#2746784 19-Jul-2021 18:26

From ABC news:

New South Wales has recorded its fifth death from the COVID-19 Delta outbreak after a woman in her 50s was found dead inside her home in Green Valley Sydney’s south west.

The ABC understands the woman is a family member of the twin brother removalists charged with breaching public health orders after travelling from Sydney to the Central West.

The brothers and another colleague received a call from NSW Health on Friday informing them that one had tested positive for coronavirus.

It is alleged the trio continued driving to Molong to finish the delivery.

(Molong is about 300km W of Sydney)

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#2746786 19-Jul-2021 18:34

Article about UK "Freedom Day" in The Lancet:

The reproductive number (R0) for the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 is roughly 2.5. The Alpha variant (B.1.1.7), which was previously dominant in the UK, is around 60% more transmissible than the parental virus. The Delta variant is roughly 60% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, which translates to an R0 of nearly 7. “If you have a virus with an R0 of 6 or 7, then the herd immunity point is somewhere in the region of 85%”, explained Martin Hibberd, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

“With the way we are opening up, we could see one or two million infections in a highly vaccinated population; that is the perfect environment for generating new variants that might be more resistant to vaccine protection”, said Hibberd.

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#2746797 19-Jul-2021 19:04

South Australia had joined the covid lockdown club.
Looks like they are going into something like or level 3.

A person in NSW quarantine caught covid. They had some issues so spent some time in hospital. Possibly while hospital, or at the hotel the caught covid and when returned to home to SA they out and about while infectious.

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#2746799 19-Jul-2021 19:10

KrazyKid: South Australia had joined the covid lockdown club.
Looks like they are going into something like or level 3.

A person in NSW quarantine caught covid. They had some issues so spent some time in hospital. Possibly while hospital, or at the hotel the caught covid and when returned to home to SA they out and about while infectious.

Ouch. Sydney one day, then QLD, NSW, Victoria, and SA today.

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#2746808 19-Jul-2021 20:12

tdgeek:

KrazyKid: South Australia had joined the covid lockdown club.
Looks like they are going into something like or level 3.

A person in NSW quarantine caught covid. They had some issues so spent some time in hospital. Possibly while hospital, or at the hotel the caught covid and when returned to home to SA they out and about while infectious.

Ouch. Sydney one day, then QLD, NSW, Victoria, and SA today.

Yep, the freedoms and covid free paradise they had is slipping through their fingers.

From the posts on a facederp page of largely Aussie tradies im on they are just going to shoot themselves in the face repeatedly. Many claiming "just go to work, they cant stop us" "all of the fines they handed out last time were cancelled as they werent legal".

Hopefully we can keep our paradise and people wont be so stupid and selfish when its our turn to be tested.

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#2746872 19-Jul-2021 23:25

tdgeek:
KrazyKid: South Australia had joined the covid lockdown club.
Looks like they are going into something like or level 3.

A person in NSW quarantine caught covid. They had some issues so spent some time in hospital. Possibly while hospital, or at the hotel the caught covid and when returned to home to SA they out and about while infectious.

Ouch. Sydney one day, then QLD, NSW, Victoria, and SA today.

And NZ has been in the same bubble with all these states until recently. I am just waiting for a local case to appear. Especially as we are still relying on people returning being honest including those who are told to self isolate at home. I don't really understand why we have been taking this risk, and can't see the cost/ benefit being worth it.

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#2746874 19-Jul-2021 23:31

mattwnz:

And NZ has been in the same bubble with all these states until recently. I am just waiting for a local case to appear. Especially as we are still relying on people returning being honest including those who are told to self isolate at home. I don't really understand why we have been taking this risk, and can't see the cost/ benefit being worth it.

I know. MIQ IMO has been excellent. Yes, there have been issues but its been excellent, well over 100,000 have returned through it. But the bubbles that seem to lag the cases is a risk that we keep on taking. If somewhere has two cases, well the odds of that infecting a bubble flight is really low, but those two cases are just the ones they tested and found, what about the rest wandering the streets, asymptomatic, or its winter Ive got the usual winter sniffles so no need to get a test.

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#2746876 19-Jul-2021 23:33

Daynger:

Yep, the freedoms and covid free paradise they had is slipping through their fingers.

From the posts on a facederp page of largely Aussie tradies im on they are just going to shoot themselves in the face repeatedly. Many claiming "just go to work, they cant stop us" "all of the fines they handed out last time were cancelled as they werent legal".

Hopefully we can keep our paradise and people wont be so stupid and selfish when its our turn to be tested.

My half brother is Australian, he thinks the pandemic is BS

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#2746881 20-Jul-2021 00:06

wellygary:

OK, we are officially off to the races.... lets see what numbers we can crank out in the next few weeks, we can no longer blame supply if we screw this up...

“The shipment of more than 370,000 doses reached New Zealand yesterday,

“Fifteen sites received shipments from the newly arrived stock yesterday, while 104 will receive stocks of the vaccine today, a day earlier than planned.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/early-pfizer-shipment-boosts-vaccine-schedule

Not unexpected, but this is a huge milestone for NZ.

Basically we have moved from being dose constrained to dosing capacity constrained.

Was at my child's GP's clinic a week or so ago. They weren't operating yet, but had all the signage set up inside to run as a vaccination center. Hopefully this is something replicated hundreds of times all over the country, each capable of 100 - 300+ doses per day....

Given the rampant delta stain outside of NZ, there seems every reason to expedite the vaccination roll out as much as possible, rather than spacing it out over the rest of the year as planned...

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