Question: the Oxford AstraZenica vaccine. are all broadcasters agreeing to call it that? CH4 calls it that and so does National newspaper. Do you get Matt Hancock on phone if you miss out Oxford:-)
Just looked at Astra Zenica site can't find Oxford used there. Not saying it's wrong - appreciate people worked very hard down there I'm sure. Mrs LB got hers last week.
https://www.azcovid-19.com/europe/gb/en/consumer.html
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Debate!
Do we need a coronavirus thread?
(5710 posts)-
Posted 4 years ago #
-
@Laidback, it's the same mentality that has Sir Keith waving the union flag over his New Leadership Party messages.
Posted 4 years ago # -
the replacement EHIC has just come out, its called the GHIC
old euro flag background now replaced by the union flag
its hideous and embarrassing
imagine presenting that with a straight face in a euro-mainland hospital
Posted 4 years ago # -
NS mentioned the 'Oxford' vaccine in one of her briefings last week.
I was surprised, and she didn't seem to choke either once realising.She struggles to call the British Army, or Royal Air force by their official names, preferring to refer to them more generally as 'Our Armed forces'. It's not really a big deal, more amusing than anything.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Maybe I'm mistaken and it's just because Oxford is easier to pronounce correctly than AstraZeneca...
Or maybe the latter sounds a bit too forrin for local people(s).
Posted 4 years ago # -
"...more than half of bookings were made by UK-based customers, partly because the British booking season starts earlier."
Are people mad?
Posted 4 years ago # -
“
We are living through strange days.
Across Britain, Europe and America societies have become split and polarised not just in politics but across the whole culture. There is anger at the inequality and the ever growing corruption - and a widespread distrust of the elites.
And into this has come the pandemic that has brutally dramatised those divisions.
But despite the chaos there is a paralysis - a sense that no one knows how to escape from this.
This new series of films by Adam Curtis tell the story of how we got to this place. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on.
“
Posted 4 years ago # -
Story from Zimbabwe. Corruption on PPE supplies. Ch4 mentioned it - the fact someone was taken to court caught my eye.
Obadiah Moyo appeared in court on Saturday over allegations he illegally handed a contract for Covid-19 testing kits, drugs and personal protective equipment to a shadowy company.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@chdot: Ah, I was wondering the other day what had happened to Adam Curtis. He seemed to have gone a bit quiet since HyperNormalisation. I shall look out for this.
Posted 4 years ago # -
“I shall look out for this.“
Seems to be iPlayer only.
From Thursday.
Posted 4 years ago # -
In that case, I shall look out for it on iPlayer!
The Beeb does seem to have decided that Mr Curtis is best kept off the broadcast airwaves these days - IIRC they did the same thing with HyperNormalisation. I wonder why? Or, more to the point, why they keep (presumably) paying him to make stuff that they don't feel able to broadcast?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Hypernormalisation was on iplayer For maybe two years?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Hypernormalisation was on iplayer For maybe two years?
It's still there. As is Bitter Lake.
Posted 4 years ago # -
also on internet archive and youtube
Posted 4 years ago # -
@chdot - I instantly heard that in the Curtis Portentuous voice.
Jab today. All friendly and efficient. The complaints I've heard is of inappropriate locations eg folk living in Dunbar being called into the EICC.
Posted 4 years ago # -
“
A lone infection may have changed the course of the pandemic
The number of mutations in the UK variant took scientists by surprise. Now they think its origins may lie in one person, chronically infected with the virus
“
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chronic-infection-uk-coronavirus-variant
Posted 4 years ago # -
A long and sobering read that one. cHDot
Posted 4 years ago # -
'now they think'
It was in the first report on it from 18th of December
'Although we speculate here that chronic infection played a role in the origins of the B.1.1.7 variant, this remains a hypothesis and we cannot yet infer the precise nature of this event.'
Posted 4 years ago # -
Treatment of immunocompromised infected individuals with convalescent plasma needs to stop, IMV, unfortunately. It's completely incompatible with vaccination as an exit strategy.
Posted 4 years ago # -
i am mentally unravelling
might as well get stuck in
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head
Posted 4 years ago # -
Very grateful to get my jab ( or was it a jag?) yesterday at the EICC
Astonished how few customers they had mid morning - less than a dozen, although there were perhaps a hundred or so booths set up
Vastly outnumbered by ushers,helpers and other staff who were all very pleasant if a bit bored
Weather wasn’t great but all Edinburgh buses seemed to be functioning
Personally I would have trudged several miles through thick snow to get protection from this beastly virus
Also read the vaccination centre at Ravenscraig with a 2000 a day capacity is closing due to a lack of clients and unused vaccine being discarded.
Are people not getting their letters or are significant numbers just not bothering to turn up?Posted 4 years ago # -
Dunno, Of my extended family only one has been done. One is being sent to ingleston (from Cameron Toll) rather than the EICC where he could happily get the bus.
The bbc reckons over 1m have been done, I wonder if this is mostly in care homes or people admitted to hospital. Or if Lothian is being particularly slow.
This is quite interesting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55274833Posted 4 years ago # -
“
The government’s online portal to allow travellers to book a quarantine hotel when arriving in England from a country on the banned travel list has gone down for maintenance on the day it was launched, PA Media reports.
The website went live earlier today but a message on the portal says:
Due to a minor technical issue, the link to the booking portal in this guidance will not be available until later today. Please return to this page later if you wish to make a booking.
“
Posted 4 years ago # -
there are of course broad similarities in consideration of the current covid vaccine narrative and the age-old cycle helmet debate
e.g. covid vaccines do not stop viral transmission and are not a passport to 'return to normal'
likewise cycle helmets do not stop bad driving styles that lead to hazardous collisions
notably in either case adoption is seen to be of significant benefit to the individual but could also be argued to increase risky behaviour in general society
i'll get me coat
Posted 4 years ago # -
@steveo: Perhaps more interesting is the Scotland-specific version: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55928563 That says 21.7% of those 16 and over in Scotland have received a first dose of vaccine, but if you use the postcode checker further down it says only 16.4% in the Lothian health board area have. So on the face of it, it does look as if Lothian is being noticeably slow cf the country as a whole. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere (chipwrapper?) that questions have already been asked about it in Holyrood.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Level of virus also lower in Lothian than in the west.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Hmm, not convinced that's the reason (or if it is, I'm not aware that it's been made clear).
For example, based on figures on the PHS Dashboard and in that BBC piece, Lanarkshire has the second worst 7 day case rate per 100,000 population at 162.7 (and the very worst total rate) but actually has a worse vaccination rate than Lothian at only 15.4%. The very worst 7 day rate is in Forth Valley but even that's only hit 18.6% - still two percentage points off the overall rate. Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with the third worst 7 day rate, is still more than a full percentage point below the overall vaccination rate at 20.1%.
Unless something is skewing the figures, I don't see that case rate is driving vaccination rate - or if it's supposed to, it's not really succeeding.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Seem to recall reading somewhere (either Beebly or Havering Snooze) that Lothian vaccination was slow getting "ramped up"* due to two factors:
- large number of care homes in Edinburgh
- community vaccination being mainly led by local GP practicesAnyway, despite the UK government agenda to make this a big flag waving competition, NHS Lothian seem to be running things in the way they should. Better that it's done properly, no?
* - I hate this expression. Business speak with military origins apparently. It is very middle management.
Posted 4 years ago #
Reply »
You must log in to post.
posts
