I just feel so thankful that there are vaccines on the way. Even if it will take time to roll it out. Without that light at the end of the tunnel these days would feel even darker than they already do. Hang in there everyone
If momentarily forgetting to put her mask on while having a socially distanced conversation at a wake is the biggest issue they can to pin on her, then that`s pretty good imo!
One of Mrs j’s ex work colleagues, still a friend , has just had a foot amputated because of complications from getting COVID 19 . Take it seriously people , take it very Very seriously. Stay safe all . He is in his mid 50’s with no major previous health issues .
Bedford woman 'lost hands and feet' as Covid led to sepsis https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55369349
Also why did they lockdown London , Essex etc into tier 4 straight away, but delay the new tier 4's by 3 days. Yet more inconsistent bollocks .
The posh folk and the common folk. @Saints Fan4Life is Lord of the Manor in the Forest. He owns all the ponies so b entice to him or he won’t let you picnic in his woods
I heard some reliable inside information about the Pfizer vaccine, yesterday, from someone in a senior position in the Southampton NHS system. Deliveries have been unreliable and this has caused problems for surgeries giving the injection. One surgery expecting almost 1000 doses, to cover those over 80 years old, from 7 different surgeries, sent out appointment letters, only to be given 24 hours notice that the delivery would be arriving a day or so later, meaning that many NHS staff had to then phone around cancelling and re-organising many appointments. Because of the report of anaphylactic shock affecting a few recipients, patients are required to remain at the surgery for an additional 15 minutes, following the jab being given, to ensure that they do not suffer from anaphylactic shock, thus slowing the process down. The surgery I know of has installed a heated marquee in the car park to help keep the flow through as high as possible. Consideration is being given to reducing the process to just 1 jab and not 2, by tweaking the volume of the initial vaccination, which would speed the process up by not having the need to repeat. The vaccine needs to be diluted, by adding a saline solution to it, which means a clinician needs to be on hand to mix the dose whilst the doctors/nurses administer the injection, so additional staff are required to keep the speed up. They are hoping that the Oxford vaccine comes through ASAP as the storage criteria means that it can be sent to every GP surgery and not just to those that have the correct storage units. It would also mean patients attending their own local surgery, rather than having to trek to another that is miles away. The only side effect that my source suffered from was a very painful arm, so painful that she couldn’t sleep on it that night, something to consider when your turn comes and if you have a preference for sleeping on one arm more than the other.
Reports in the media confirm that delayed deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine aren’t just confined to Southampton. A glib response from someone responsible for the rollout, no name was mentioned, was that delays were being corrected within 24 hours, but failed to recognise that the delays were creating unnecessary administrative work and costs for surgeries having to rearrange appointments at short notice. Hopefully this will be a blip and not a repeat of the PPE fiasco.
This Twitter thread is worth reading, and it isn't good news at all. Christina Pagel, by the way, runs the Clinical Operational Research Unit at University College, London.
40k in one day in england alone? At no point has that been reported in the official figures, makes me doubt the rest of it tbh.
39,237 on 23 December and 39,036 the following day. Those are reporting dates, not specimen dates as quoted on the Twitter thread. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ Edit: Christina Pagel is also a member of SAGE.
