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Video about qurantine to enter NZ.
Americans although one of them has a kiwi father so has citizenship.
Americans although one of them has a kiwi father so has citizenship.
Ive been reading a bit of foreign news just to get a taste of what they are saying. And doesnt seem the Germans are too impressed with Von Der Leyen. And blame her almost entirely for the whole fiasco.
And in fact it was you who took the position that the virus cannot be eradicated. How, should that prove true, can the pandemic not be declared over while the vaccine continues to be necessary, and becomes a very profitable business? Someday the pandemic must be declared over, even if the virus is not totally eradicated from the planet. Which even I acknowledge is impossible. The business plan here is obviously to profit handsomely then from a vital medical supply.
The very hastily conducted clinical trials were basically conducted by staff of these companies. IF you search you'll find that the famous mistake that led to the discovery that a reduced first dose would improve outcomes was done by the staff of one of the two companies involved. The protocols for the trials were managed between the researchers and the regulators. Again: what dis AstraZeneca brought to the table? The lawyers to demand no liability clauses?
I'm also happy to bury the hatch on insulting remarks, provided it's mutual! Yes I was angry: you claimed that what I know for a fact is happening, and tried to inform about, was impossible. It was wrong and misleading to anyone who read it.
As for Bill Gates' contributions to help maintain this wasteful and irrational (for the public interest) situation, that would indeed be more political and better argued about in some other thread. It is a very evil things to increase costs and reduce access to medications and these vaccines provide a demonstration of how the intermediaries can be done away with. Even if - wrongly - again they weren't. So I cannot help myself from mentioning that example of how the status quo gets maintained.
Video about qurantine to enter NZ.
Americans although one of them has a kiwi father so has citizenship.
The EU had spent just €1.78bn in “risk money”, cash handed to pharmaceutical companies without any guarantee of a return, compared to €1.9bn by the UK and €9bn by the US, he said. There were consequences.
The actual position is the following: the test-data does not include a large enough sample-size in the age bracket above the age of 64 to make any definitive statement on whether the vaccine works well enough or not. And that is very much true.
From that point on there are two possible paths to take:
a) ignore that you don't have the necessary data, assume that it still works, and go ahead with using it
b) wait for further testing to deliver the necessary data, and until then use the vaccine only for younger people
Fine by me. I remain unconvinced Bill Gates has increased the cost of the Oxford/AZ vaccine. It's the cheapest out there right now. Your approach really only seems to replace AZ hiring smaller companies with the UK government hiring the same companies, in which case this argument boils down to the government getting a better deal from them than AZ. With the UK government's track record, particularly the approach of throwing money at a political problem until it goes away, I'm not really buying that. Remember all the overpriced and unfit for use PPE and ventilators they managed to acquire back at the start of all this? I think it more likely the UK government would end up paying through the nose to get these companies to produce the Oxford vaccine rather than a licensed alternative with a higher profit margin.
“He is an extremely charismatic llama … he’s a pretty cool guy,” says TJ Esparza, a neuroscientist at the Uniformed Services University. He is part of the team attempting to transform Cormac’s nanobody cells into a drug that will coat the inside of human lungs, providing temporary but effective protection from coronavirus particles.
Camelids such as camels, llamas and alpacas produce nanobodies, which are similar to human antibodies but much smaller. The right nanobodies, from the right animal, can essentially nestle over the spikes that dot the surface of a coronavirus particle and prevent them from latching on to healthy cells.
Cormac turned out to be the right llama. After he was injected with a harmless pseudovirus five times over the course of a month, a small portion of his blood was taken and his nanobodies isolated. Cormac produced one nanobody strain, from hundreds analysed, that was found to be effective in preventing infection.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...he-extremely-charismatic-llama-may-hold-a-key
I just recently spoke with a friend from NZ, and she says that if you fly to NZ, and stay <3 months (-> tourists), you need to pay your quarantine stay on your own (~4000€ she said), otherwise you get it paid back.
So not something to consider right now as holidays .
In my home district in Germany there's now an investigation going on against 2 doctors. There was a demonstration, and a suspiciously high amount of demonstrators had medical attestations for being excempt from wearing maskes, coming from these 2 doctors.
I'd say this is definitely not something you should risk your job for, and if they found it was misconduct, they'll probably rightfully lose their license (or get fined, or whatever).
How generous are the quarantine spaces in NZ? The big problem for Australia at the moment is the severe limitation on the number of quarantine spaces available, leaving many Australians stuck overseas (including my sister, who has just had her February flight cancelled, and has been told that she can be re-booked onto a May flight). Flights come to Australia with only a couple dozen people, because airlines only have a tiny weekly allocation. Last month when there were a handful of cases in Sydney and Melbourne and people were panicking about the 'new UK strain', quarantine places were cut in half which created even more difficulties. There are still flights going back and forth, but quarantine creates a huge bottleneck, with airlines having a tiny weekly allocation meaning they can only fit a couple dozen people no a flight.
The agreement is for the duration of the pandemic (as defined by the WHO - and let's be clear that's not going to be declared over any time soon). And it is up to Oxford university as well as AZ what the post pandemic licensing agreement will be. If Covid vaccines are required beyond this pandemic I suspect the mRNA vaccines will be preferred in the long run, when rapid response is less of an issue.
9.3 AstraZeneca shall provide any agreed Additional Doses at Cost of Goods until 1 July 2021, unless AstraZeneca determines in good faith that the COVID-19 pandemic has not ceased as of 1 July 2021 ...
Idk exact numbers afaik.
Say if I was stuck in the UK I would have to book a qurantine spot. Apparatus it was hard to get one around Christmas.
Last I heard they can process around 3000 a week 90% are for NZers the other 10% foreigner's.