Covid - news and views

I Googled autoimmune and the vaccine, there seems to be no contraindicationsI think I should be ok but will mention it.

I think AnnB mentioned that her husband has autoimmune problems and got an appointment for him but I've come to realise that there are so many variants of diseases, not just C19, that it's best not to rely on what others have done but find out for yourself. Good luck Bakers.

Good comment WN and pleased to hear you are booked in! 

Back from having our AZ jabs. All very efficient, in and out in 25 minutes. Carried out in the old Wickes store in town. An NHS nurse took details, presumably because she was accessing our records on her computer. We were then transferred to a fireman (paramedic) who did the injections.

We did get a sticker.😀

We did get a sticker.😀

I believe tat you get an icecream at the Russian walk ins 
 

Ta-da. . .Good news at last-there are positive rumblings from the Govt re opening the country up. . .Baby feet mind but it’s good news👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

apparently it is true

It appears that coronavirus is a remarkably agile infection and mutations could be with us for the foreseeable future. Back in the days when infectious disease were rife each town had an isolation hospital, then it was the only solution available for protection of the greater population. Probably prohibitively costly now but it does seem that worldwide little provision had been set aside for the inevitable?

So far SARS-CoV-2 has shown itself to be much less agile than Flu.  Like SARS-CoV-2 Flu is a corona virus which spreads, mutates, and kills thousands every year despite millions being vaccinated against it and herd immunity has never been reached.  We live with it. 

SARS-CoV-2 will most likely be with the same as Flu; it will remain active and we will have to live with it also.  The current vaccines will for the most part prevent people getting seriously ill, although that is not guaranteed.  They do not guarantee that you will not catch the virus, nor do they guarantee that you will not spread it if you do get infected. noticeably or asymptomatically.

Bearing in mind that the primary objective of the virus is to replicate, the later mutations seem to be residing more heavily in the upper respiratory tract of those infected making it much easier for the virus to be spread by aerosol (coughs and sneezes spread diseases). 

One thing we have yet to see is the SARS-CoV-2 virus becoming less dangerous.  It can't replicate if it kills its hosts so it may yet become more able to easily spread but less of a killer.