2019 Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 Discussion

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#2751116 28-Jul-2021 11:35

Just booked my jabs.

Just posting to say regardless of what happened before and my subsequent kind of low expectations for user-friendliness, the website booking system was a true work of art in good UX design. Simple, clear, fast loading, text message confirmation arrived within seconds of hitting the final "confirm" button. First shot in a couple of weeks. Makes me very happy.

I did have my NHI number handy. To save digging through filed docs if you chuck all unimportant stuff in great big box like I do, it should be listed by your name on any prescription sticker on meds. Not sure if not having the NHI handy number slows the process, it should be able to find you through name and DOB anyway.

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#2751130 28-Jul-2021 11:59

Kraven:

wellygary: Anyone feel like making a report to CERT about a website purporting to be an official government site without a .govt.nz address?? :)

What is the issue with using .health.nz? It's a MOH website and MOH moderates the .health.nz 2LD. Why does it need to be .govt.nz?

I read it as being a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour - hence the smiley face at the end...

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#2751131 28-Jul-2021 12:02

Fred99: Just booked my jabs.

Just posting to say regardless of what happened before and my subsequent kind of low expectations for user-friendliness, the website booking system was a true work of art in good UX design. Simple, clear, fast loading, text message confirmation arrived within seconds of hitting the final "confirm" button. First shot in a couple of weeks. Makes me very happy.

I did have my NHI number handy. To save digging through filed docs if you chuck all unimportant stuff in great big box like I do, it should be listed by your name on any prescription sticker on meds. Not sure if not having the NHI handy number slows the process, it should be able to find you through name and DOB anyway.

Great stuff! Hopefully you get nothing more than a sore arm. That's all I had for both of mine. One chap I work with had to take a day off after his second as he was feeling quite nauseous, another chap got a headache of migraine proportions.

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#2751157 28-Jul-2021 12:58

Dratsab:

Great stuff! Hopefully you get nothing more than a sore arm. That's all I had for both of mine. One chap I work with had to take a day off after his second as he was feeling quite nauseous, another chap got a headache of migraine proportions.

I've never had a noticeable reaction to any vaccine except one - oral typhoid (and that really gave me the sh*ts - literally) but that doesn't really mean anything. The possible side effects of the covid shots doesn't bother me.

So I'm obviously at the top age band of group 4, the risk of dying from covid is small-ish but significant - and I have no health risk issues. But it's also the longer-term effects of getting covid that worries me. I do a lot of hiking, have some NZ "great walks" planned and booked, most of the people I hike with are ~ 10 years younger than me, I keep up, and I damned well do not want to lose that part of my life now or in the near future, which could happen if I got "long covid". l resign myself to the reality that I'll eventually need to slow down. But f%$ getting covid any time soon.

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#2751159 28-Jul-2021 13:06

More not very good numbers from NSW today:

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#2751161 28-Jul-2021 13:12

So 177 new cases.

(text extracted from NSW Health twitter a/c)

Of these locally acquired cases, 74 are linked to a known case or cluster – 60 are household contacts and 14 are close contacts – and the source of infection for 103 cases is under investigation.

Forty-seven cases were in isolation throughout their infectious period and 22 cases were in isolation for part of their infectious period. Forty-six cases were infectious in the community, and the isolation status of 62 cases remains under investigation.

There are currently 165 COVID-19 cases admitted to hospital, with 56 people in intensive care, 22 of whom require ventilation.

Sadly, NSW Health has been notified of a COVID-19-related death, a woman in her 90s, who died yesterday at Liverpool Hospital. NSW Health extends its sincere condolences to her family and friends. This is the 11th COVID-19 related death during the current outbreak.

From the press conference:

Ms Berejiklian said it was important for people not to go visiting family members.

She pointed to an example of a funeral where 45 out of the 50 people who attended were infected with COVID-19.

That very high transmission hit rate was IIRC seen with other clusters early on in their outbreak. It's terrifying.

There's some tweaks to lockdown rules, "single bubble" - one nominated person visits allowed if you're living alone, limit of 10km for shopping trips.

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#2751165 28-Jul-2021 13:24

Today's vaccination update:

https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/news-items/covid-19-vaccine-update-28-july-2021

And updated stats:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data

204k doses given last week.

38k vaccines delivered in a single day.

14% of our total population vaccinated.

This weeks shipment arrived yesterday. Good stock (150k+) in in the freezers now.

842,000 vaccination bookings in the system.

70% of all people over 65 are either vaccinated or have a booking.

[edit] And out PM gets her second dose. Her first dose was on 18/6, so she has run a 6 week, 5 day dose spacing.

wellygary

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#2751178 28-Jul-2021 13:51

Scott3:

204k doses given last week.

38k vaccines delivered in a single day.

14% of our total population vaccinated.

This weeks shipment arrived yesterday. Good stock (150k+) in in the freezers now.

842,000 vaccination bookings in the system.

70% of all people over 65 are either vaccinated or have a booking.

Still bottom of the OCED in regard to doses/population thou...

Even 350K a week only adds ~7% to the overall tally meaning we might just catch up with OZ ( who are the OECD laggard)

NZ 1.7 million administered in 5 million pop is 34%

OZ 11.4 million out of 25 million is 45%

Oz are currently 158K doses per day (7 day rolling average) this is 1.1 million/week or 4% of pop
[-but OZ are pfizer constrained at 1 million a week until September + whatever AZ people will accept] so they probably can't ramp much higher....

at a 3% differential we might just catch them before their pfizer deliveries ramp in Sept/October,- (up to 2 million doses a week in Q4)

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#2751183 28-Jul-2021 13:54

has anyone mentioned NSW lockdown extended 4 weeks

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/300368162/covid19-australia-greater-sydney-lockdown-has-been-extended

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#2751209 28-Jul-2021 14:22

Scott3:

Today's vaccination update:

https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/news-items/covid-19-vaccine-update-28-july-2021

And updated stats:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data

204k doses given last week.

38k vaccines delivered in a single day.

14% of our total population vaccinated.

This weeks shipment arrived yesterday. Good stock (150k+) in in the freezers now.

842,000 vaccination bookings in the system.

70% of all people over 65 are either vaccinated or have a booking.

[edit] And out PM gets her second dose. Her first dose was on 18/6, so she has run a 6 week, 5 day dose spacing.

Yes, clear jump in vaccination rate, though still below AU, which is also ramping up.

Percentage of total population fully vaccinated in both NZ & AU is 13.7%. First dose rates are ~20% and 30% respectively.

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#2751216 28-Jul-2021 14:32

wellygary:

Still bottom of the OCED in regard to doses/population thou...

At about the global average though, but no doubt we'll creep ahead of that very quickly.

The Sydney Morning Herald has a clickable global vaccine tracker app:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/covid-19-global-vaccine-tracker-and-data-centre-20210128-p56xht.html

(scroll down)

While that's only going to be as good as the data they input, it's showing some dire things, countries with major pandemic problems and very low vaccination rates.

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#2751337 28-Jul-2021 15:13

Having spent ages in traffic this morning, I’ve come up with a great incentive to get vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated drivers are allowed to use the T2/T3/Bus lanes! Just use your vaccination certificate as a get-out-of-jail-free card when the infringement notice(s) arrive.

Should appeal to the more selfish amongst us. Although it might affect local body revenue streams.

Note: This is so far tongue-in-cheek that it’s making the side of my face hurt.

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. Carl Sagan 1996

cshwone

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#2751338 28-Jul-2021 15:30

Dingbatt:

Having spent ages in traffic this morning, I’ve come up with a great incentive to get vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated drivers are allowed to use the T2/T3/Bus lanes! Just use your vaccination certificate as a get-out-of-jail-free card when the infringement notice(s) arrive.

Should appeal to the more selfish amongst us. Although it might affect local body revenue streams.

Note: This is so far tongue-in-cheek that it’s making the side of my face hurt.

And a logical extension is to allow fully vaccinated drivers to travel at 120k in a 100k zone. Bring it on :)

vexxxboy

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#2751341 28-Jul-2021 15:43

Dingbatt:

Having spent ages in traffic this morning, I’ve come up with a great incentive to get vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated drivers are allowed to use the T2/T3/Bus lanes! Just use your vaccination certificate as a get-out-of-jail-free card when the infringement notice(s) arrive.

Should appeal to the more selfish amongst us. Although it might affect local body revenue streams.

Note: This is so far tongue-in-cheek that it’s making the side of my face hurt.

i would have thought that not ending up and/or dying in hospital would be enough incentive to get vaccinated.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2751344 28-Jul-2021 15:48

Oblivian:

freitasm: https://Bookmyvaccine.nz seems to be live now.

Heh, predicted close

URL redirector to slightly different URL as previously used/posted. Similar missing .govt level.

https://bookmyvaccine.covid19.health.nz/

Not sure this site is live yet. If you try clicking on any day, no matter how far in the future, nothing happens.

Tried on both Chrome and Edge.

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