Looks Like We Were Correct........w H O....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56011981
"...And that spacing out the two doses, as is happening in the UK, makes the vaccine more effective. " - praise indeed. OK my Anti Anti British force field is up!

[ichkeria]

And well done Britain's Sir Tony Blair for suggesting it as well.

I bet my anti anti-Blair forcefield is stronger: it will need to be lol

[tiggerblue10]

Is it just me who is confused with double negatives? Doesn't take much!

Anyhoo, yes, it is good news :o)

[Peter Pedant]

covid - the british mutation is not british
the british covid vacca is not british

covid goes for anything. anti british force field guardy fing therefore not needed

pretty terrible assumptions and conclusions - one dose is not like two doses and so it MUST be like no dose at all ....
and not only on AB

[Peter Pedant]

no tigger - this thread is not non-sensical
it is fact the usual TTT non sequitur and clag

[vulcan42]

I posted this link on one of teacakes rants, never got a response. Can't work out why :o)

[emmie]

i thought Blair suggested it as a way of rolling out the vaccine to more people, did he suggest that it should be spaced out as is the case with mine for 12 weeks.

[ichkeria]

The main point of the article is that the WHO has backed the vaccine.

However given that this is heralded with the usual confrontational approach Tora adopts for many of his posts I thought I would reply in kind :-)
It will be interesting to see what S Africa does.

[emmie]

fine, but did Blair expect the second vaccine to be given so long after the first...

[emmie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55410349

[Sunk]

While it is good news that WHO have established that the doses can be taken wider apart than previously advised, it is fortunate rather than praiseworthy.
The Government did that without any scientific evidence to justify it. It means we have been able to vaccine twice as quickly as previously hoped, which is good.

While I am happy how this has turned out, congratulating the Government on a lucky accident is a tad sycophantic.

[jim360]

It was lucky to be sure, but I still think some credit is due. One arguable error that the Government has made throughout the pandemic is to continually be behind the science in its policy decisions, and more generally has been reacting to events rather than anticipating them. It would suck if they are also criticised for being proactive, especially when hindsight even supports that decision.

Perhaps, too, if the decision turned out to have been wrong, the sense I'm getting from the efficiency of the vaccination rollout is that it could have been (fairly) quickly reversed if needed.

[ichkeria]

Planning for vaccines is one area the governement was ahead in: it's one area which has been genuinely "world-beating" although it's a pity if we start getting too gung-ho and jingoistic about it. I'm sure it's not what the people involved would want.