Covid 19 CRISIS

[Blind_Io]

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[gaasc]

I've been away for a while, but heard about this thread on the grapevice. It's been a pleasure reading the past dozen or so pages.

After spending too much time listening to the fear mongering populist crap on public news, and having too many of my daily contacts turn to paranoid conspiracy theorists, it's been a damn pleasure seeing some quality discourse on the topic.

Hear hear.

 

[Dr_Grip]

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With at least three mRNA players, competition will hopefully lead to a stable-ish price. Economic theory calls this kind of situation a "stable oligopoly".

Also - good news, pharma investors are already planning post-pandemic price gauging. We got this in the bag.

 

[CraigB]

Interesting anecdotal observation from several trips to home improvement stores in Greenville, Texas, over the last two days.

There was more mask usage than I expected. I'd say close to 75%. I figured Gena and I would be the only ones wearing one.

 

[Dr_Grip]

In positive EU vaccination news, not only, as mentioned, has

• BioNTech upped their delivery commitment for Q2 (in the single-digit percentage range), but
• Switzerland has also approved Lonza's plant producing the Moderna vaccine.
• And J&J made a deal with Takeda allowing to switch capacity in a plant run by Germany's IDT from Takeda's dengue fever to J&J's covid vaccine.
• There is some speculation that IDT, whose own covid vaccine effort failed, also may be the unnamed German manufacturing partner for the Sputnik vaccine.

So, while we are waiting for word not only on the AZ blood clodding debacle, but also on AZ's US and CureVac's EU/SA phase III trials any day now, the EU supply chains for non-AZ vaccines increasingly look super solid.
This means even without any further AZ doses, the EU we will be done with first doses within August (German press of course framed this as "Experts warn of further vaccination delay" - but the timeline does not care about framing).

 

[Perc]

Teslabjørn has it. 11 days in and he’s still in really rough shape. Being the YouTuber that he is he’s documenting it for posterity.

 

[narf]

Time for good vaccination news?

(RKI)

Observe the pink line.

Around Christmas, over 20% of all tests done on 80+-year-olds in Germany were positive, topping all other age groups' rates.
By now, 80+ is the age group with the lowest test positivity rate ?

For context, noone was vaccinated around Christmas, by now a majority of all 80+ people here are single-or-double-vaccinated.

 

[Punisher Bass]

Just booked an appointment for my 2nd shot for this saturday, same time and place, I do hope it won't be another 3 hours of waiting in the car though.

 

[93Flareside]

From an email today from Icelandair.

I want to, but I shouldn’t. :/

I also would need to get vaccinated first.

 

[Matt2000]

If you haven't been to Iceland, it's worth getting stabbed in the arm for!

 

[93Flareside]

If you haven't been to Iceland, it's worth getting stabbed in the arm for!

Tell me about it, I checked online and local places are still saying "none available."

 

[CraigB]

Good news for me! Beginning April 9th, Missouri is going to open up vaccinations to anyone not previously listed in one of the other tiers.

I hope this means I could be fully vaccinated by late April or early May.

 

[jack_christie]

Brought my mother to get her first shot of BioNTech, at the doctors surgery.

 

[jack_christie]

Dr. Scott Atlas now advising Gov DeSantos

 

[NecroJoe]

Dr. Scott Atlas now advising Gov DeSantos

The guy who did a lengthy interview with Russian state media right before the election, because "oops, I didn't know!"

 

[jack_christie]

The guy who did a lengthy interview with Russian state media right before the election, because "oops, I didn't know!"

 

[Dr_Grip]

In more good vaccination news, the AZ vaccine is back in use in the EU, which means we can get back to fighting them over supply. I am still confident of getting my first shot within Q2, but yeah, all things considered, in late 2020 I had assumed to already have had it now.

 

[Dr_Grip]

Another minor point on AZ: Researchers in several countries (at least in Norway and Germany - reporting in Norwegian and German, respectively) claim to have identified the mechanism that leads to the blood clodding. The good news is, as the mechanism is simple, they also identified a treatment for those rare cases.
Lancet paper forthcoming.

 

[DanRoM]

That is bloody fast.

 

[Perc]

(Yes, I saw the pun)

I guess it's what happens when everyone involved realizes this is serious business and nothing that should be delayed while shuffling it around between different bureaucrats.