[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[LDOG 2,418]

52 minutes ago, Agger said:

If (in theory) only about 35 % of the Japanese population decided to get vaccinated, it would be nowhere enough. Btw even without those extra 60 million doses, Japan would be set to get plenty. According to Bloomberg, 120 % of the population is covered. It's not quite Canada and UK who are set to be able to vaccinate everybody 3 times while the EU is at 183 %.

But one thing is the hosts, most athletes are afterall from other countries.

To be precise it says "% of people that believe vaccines are safe".Also, the stats are from 2018 so I guess they mean vaccines in general not covid. In any case I highly doubt Japan has only 35% people that take vaccines.  

  

Also, below it says 7% choose to not vaccinate their children in Japan. That seems like a very low % if it actually was that literally only 35% of people there accept to vaccinate at all.

[Vic Liu 1,682]

 

 

 

Situation worsens every day and policies update every day. It's very likely to be the first Chinese new year I spend in Beijing without family members due to the potential enlarging total lockdown.

 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

About a thousand invalid vaccines have been administered in Sweden. Apparently there are no serious side effects (apart from probable ineffectivness)...

 

So we are proven again and again that the World is simply not ready for such a widespread vaccination plan. Least of all the EU. Rate of vaccination is going slower than anyone could have imagined. Certainly when compared to some non-EU nations.

 

 

[LDOG 2,418]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

About a thousand invalid vaccines have been administered in Sweden. Apparently there are no serious side effects (apart from probable ineffectivness)...

 

So we are proven again and again that the World is simply not ready for such a widespread vaccination plan. Least of all the EU. Rate of vaccination is going slower than anyone could have imagined. Certainly when compared to some non-EU nations.

 

 

Why are they invalid? Out of what total?

[Agger 1,662]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

About a thousand invalid vaccines have been administered in Sweden. Apparently there are no serious side effects (apart from probable ineffectivness)...

 

So we are proven again and again that the World is simply not ready for such a widespread vaccination plan. Least of all the EU. Rate of vaccination is going slower than anyone could have imagined. Certainly when compared to some non-EU nations.

 

 

Least of all the EU?
Criticize EU all you want, but the most effective EU country is (I believe) 6th. Sure, that's way behind Israel and UAE (don't get me wrong, I would have love to see us at the same pace).

And really, the EU doesn't have much to do with it any longer. They made sure that EU could buy plenty, following the demands from the nations (of who plenty cared much about costs). Now that we're getting them, it's mainly between the suppliers and the individual nations.

Right now the main worries are that both Pfizer/Biontech and Astrazeneca are struggling to deliver what they've promised.

 

And BTW, initial reports are that nothing is really wrong with those vaccines in Sweden. They were transported at a too low temperature (more like the temperatures for the Pfizer vaccines), but they don't expect to be needing another vaccine for the 1000. Some other vaccines with the same problem are held back though.

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Why are they invalid? Out of what total?

They (Moderna) were stored at too low of a temperature. 2,100 doses out of about 10,000.

[pdr4332 218]

23 minutes ago, Agger said:

Right now the main worries are that both Pfizer/Biontech and Astrazeneca are struggling to deliver what they've promised.

Pfizer yes. But in AstraZeneca's case, European Medicines Agency (EMA) authorization is missing - according to todays' news, it will come until 31.01. as latest. Hopefully they do it then. After that, it will be indeed the manufacturers (AZ) task to deliver it promptly.

[Agger 1,662]

6 minutes ago, dharang said:

Pfizer yes. But in AstraZeneca's case, European Medicines Agency (EMA) authorization is missing - according to todays' news, it will come until 31.01. as latest. Hopefully they do it then. After that, it will be indeed the manufacturers (AZ) task to deliver it promptly.

Yes. EMA is expected to make their call in a week, but it was announced today that they will not be able to produce the amounts expected the first month.

[hckošice 14,822]

and after 21 days our president received her second dose of pfizer vaccine. which means that the second vaccination dosing has also started

 

[rybak 3,217]

That's it, today, after year and almost two months of first detected cases numbee of total cases reached 100 million.

 

Meanwhile in  today we had 2419 new cases and "just" 38 deaths, the lowest number since early October. Due this highly probably from 1st February some restrictions will be lifted. Already from last Monday kids from class 1-3 in primary schools returned to normal realing in schools. There is plan to vaccine over 3 million people until 30th March, but it will probably less as all Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca delivers fewer vaccines than planned.