The ones I have already have caused enough trouble for one lifetime!

...you might feel a few symptoms for a few days, TS...but you’ll be fine...:hug:...such a relief for you, being one of the vaccined squad ...but you’re not going anywhere...this is a package deal and you’re here to stay, don’t even try to get away...anyway, enough of you...the news corner says....


COVID-19: EU threatens to block jab exports to UK and other countries with high vaccination rates...


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to block vaccine exports to the UK and other countries with markedly higher rollouts of coronavirus jabs.

The EU's delivery of COVID vaccines has been slower compared with the UK rollout, where nearly 25 million adults have now had their first dose.

With the bloc facing a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Ms von der Leyen said: "We are in the crisis of the century.

"If this situation does not change, we will have to reflect on how to make exports to vaccine-producing countries, dependent on their level of openness.

"We will reflect on whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate."

The 27-nation bloc has been facing an acute shortage of COVID-19 vaccines for some time.

Ms von der Leyen spoke as six EU countries complained to Brussels about reduced deliveries that are hampering the bloc's troubled inoculation programme.

She has previously admitted a country on its own - such as the UK - can act as a "speedboat" compared with the EU's "tanker" in the delivery of COVID-19 jabs.

Her latest comments risk escalating tensions with the UK and US over their restrictive approach to deliveries of vaccines in the EU.


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/covid-19-e...122600762.html

At this point are they not basically inches away from admitting that the EU doesn't actually work all that well as a complex political union and would probably have been best purely as a free movement/free trade customs union?

Don't get me wrong I very much still think that Brexit is a disaster, but that's largely BECAUSE it means we lose access to a huge amount of trading power (it was a package deal).

Thus far I have none at all, I don't even have a sore arm :suspect:. If it wasn't for the miniscule red dot on my arm I wouldn't know it had happened.

(Watch me come on whining like a baby tomorrow morning :joker: )

Yeah my thoughts exactly, still a remainer but the EU have massively screwed this up themselves.

More than 25 million people vaccinated.
We're on our way back to normal! :cheer2:

People vaccinated up to and including 16 March 2021

First dose: 25,273,226

Second dose: 1,759,445


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

That's brilliant work :clap1:

When you consider that young people don't (particularly) need vaxxed for this to be effective in bringing severe illness right down to next to nothing... At 25m we are probably past "half way".

(Thinking for this - 66m people in the UK, at least 16m are under age 20, so 25m is half of the remaining 50m people)

there is still going to be the occasional young person who gets seriously ill and of course those vulnerable people unwilling or unable to be vaccinated, but the pressure should be right down now, which is great news considering it all really started 1 year ago

was it AZ you had? My symptoms were immediately obvious as soon as i woke up the next day, you can't mistake it. ... just write the day off and go back to sleep is my advice if you feel dodgy :laugh:

I had the vaccine on my day off, so I had time to recover.
I don't think you should work the next day, you'll be feeling rough.

COVID-19: UK to face 'significant reduction' in
vaccine supplies from 29 March

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...march-12248909


[Disruption could last for four weeks, and
the government's vaccines taskforce
has told the health service that this
is linked to "reductions in national inbound vaccines supply".


Sky's health correspondent, Ashish Joshi,
has been told that the shortage has
nothing to do with ongoing
supply tensions with the EU - instead,
it is down to a "global supply issue" with AstraZeneca.]

kinda coincides with the Easter Break I guess, maybe the EU can hand over the AZ they wont use?

When are these doses of Moderna supposed to start arriving? The US is catching us up on vaccines thanks to that jab

We should get it in April, I think.

I finished at 12 today (to go get it) and I have the rest of the week off. Kids are back at school and my wife will be at work so I can just slob about the couch all day if I'm feeling crap.

I still have no symptoms, even the little dot is gone now, HOWEVER I put shampoo in the mug cupboard (apparently) and I dont know why and have no memory of doing it? My wife was looking for it, it had been left in the kitchen and I was in there tidying like "nope I've not seen it anywhere" but I'd put it tucked away in the corner of a cupboard??

Its my brain clot starting isnt it :worry:.

Light at the end of the tunnel - Covid [vaccine news]
 

So what happens ( worst case scenario) if tens of thousands don’t get their second jab after the 12 week period ?


Edit

If there is going to be an issue for people going longer than the twelve week gap then I presume they will give preference to the ones ‘needing’ their second jab - if indeed there are shortages

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JVT said they were specifically asking GPs not to send letters to under 50s, so they will loop back make sure they have got everyone who wants a vaccine and and prioritise second jabs

i was cooking lunch the day after. Did all the preparatory work, set the timer for 30 mins and went back to work until the timer activated. When the timer activated, I went back to the kitchen and my dinner was sitting there waiting to go in the oven :laugh: Never done that before

AZ gave a statement
NewsnightHD BBC2
they have NO Shortage in Supply?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03...6024877476.jpg


[However, there is confusion over the source of the delay
with a Government source blaming a range of 'production issues'.
The source revealed that this included the need to
re-test a large batch of the vaccine, although they
did not specify from which manufacturer.
They also suggested there was an issue with
AstraZeneca's production overseas,
resulting in fewer jabs being delivered
in April than initially planned.
This was backed up by another government source
that claimed the shortages were related
to the late delivery of five million doses
of the AstraZeneca jab being manufactured in India.
The Serum Institute was due to send
10 million doses to the UK - yet only half have arrived.
Another senior government figure has suggested
AstraZeneca is 'late' with doses. ]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-batches.html

Well TS :worry: how are you feeling?

...can you imagine after all of the amazing posts TS has made on so many varied topics ...his last post ever was about Piers Morgan being an ass...the cruelty of it all...

:joker: