It always makes me laugh when people post nonsense and then claim they cannot find the link !!!

Perhaps it's because it contained this "Important Notice?

*Important notice

medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.

Anyway...here is the real information.....

“vaccine was found to be 86% effective in people aged over 60, an Israeli healthcare provider said on Wednesday, citing initial results from a study of thousands of members.”

 

The Phizer roll out in NSW is a disgrace.

Gladys took all the Phizer doses out of the rural areas and gave them to Sydney

This means that the rural areas who have a lot lower health and hospital numbers to Sydney also do not have access to the vaccine that is fully effective within 3 weeks ( plus 2 Weeks after the second jab)

 

From our friends in the USA who sent this a couple of days ago I thought people here would find this of interest.

Expert says 'the problem remains with the unvaccinated' as COVID-19 cases surge in the US NOWCAST Watch on Demand ? ? ? 86° No Alerts & Closings in Your Area  Sign Up to Get Future Alerts ? 2 / 2 ? ? TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Sign up for daily emails with local updates and other important news. SUBMIT Privacy Notice ? Your Email Address Updated: 10:21 AM EDT

Aug 1, 2021 Infinite Scroll Enabled Aya Elamroussi,

CNN With the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant continuing nationwide, the recent surge in COVID19 cases is being largely driven by swaths of people that remain unvaccinated, according to one expert. "We know that the vast majority of the spread is still by unvaccinated people.

And I think that that is the part that's been lost in the messaging from the CDC ... which is that the problem is not with the vaccinated. The problem remains with the unvaccinated. And the way that we can get out of this pandemic is to increase vaccination rates,"

CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen said Saturday. Wen's remarks come as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data indicating that a small percentage of the fully vaccinated population can still be infected with COVID-19, be hospitalized, or die from the disease. Less than 0.004% of people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 experienced a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization, according to CDC's latest data, and less than 0.001% have died from the disease.

How worried should vaccinated people be of COVID-19 breakthrough infections? Breakthrough cases occur when the virus infects fully vaccinated people. The CDC reported a total of 6,587 breakthrough cases, including 6,239 hospitalizations and 1,263 deaths as of July 26. At that time, more than 163 million people in the U.S. were fully vaccinated against COVID19.

Wen clarified that the federal government's recent guidance that fully vaccinated people should mask up is not an indication that the vaccines aren't working. "So the CDC should actually be saying, 'Look, the reason we're doing indoor mandates is because the unvaccinated cannot be trusted to put on masks. That's why the vaccinated also have to be putting on masks,'" she said. CDC now recommends vaccinated people wear masks indoors in certain areas "I really think that that would clarify things because ultimately the issue is the unvaccinated.

They really need to prevent this idea from taking over that somehow the vaccines don't work because that's exactly the opposite of what the CDC data are showing." Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University, echoed Wen's stance. "So if I tell you that if you are vaccinated, you have a ... 99.999% chance of not dying from this virus, what else in life gives you that kind of guarantee?

Our vaccines are exquisitely effective and very safe," Reiner told CNN Saturday. "But the news is just phenomenal with these vaccines, even with the super aggressive Delta variant, our vaccines work and they work really well." Even though there was a recent vaccination lag in many pockets of the country, inoculations have started to pick up. The seven-day average of new doses administered per day in the U.S. is now 652,084, up 26% over three weeks ago.

The increase is even sharper in Southern states, which have some of the lowest in vaccination rates in the country. In Alabama, where roughly 34% of the total population is fully vaccinated, the seven-day average is more than double that of three weeks ago. And Arkansas, with just 36% of its population fully vaccinated, has also seen its average daily rate of doses administered double in the past three weeks.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Americans can lower COVID-19 infections in a matter of weeks with vaccination and masks. "If we take the steps that are necessary to squash the amount of disease that is there now, we can do so in a matter of weeks, if we all get vaccinated, if we wear masks," Walensky told Fox News Friday. Just under half, 49.5%, of the total U.S. population is fully vaccinated, CDC data published Saturday showed. Industry urges more vaccinations among health care workers With the uptick in hospitalizations, health care workers are once again facing a greater risk of exposure to COVID-19.

And some in the medical community are calling for more stringent requirements regarding vaccinations for health care and long-term care employees. Nationally, less than 59% of nursing home staff are vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data released Friday from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In contrast, more than 81% of nursing home residents were vaccinated as of July 18, according to CMS.

Only 1 in 5 nursing home facilities have hit the industry target of getting 75% of their health care staff fully vaccinated, according to a recent report from AARP. "For health care workers, I think a mandate is necessary," Dr. Rachel Villanueva, president of the National Medical Association, told CNN Friday.

The National Medical Association, which advocates on behalf of African American physicians and patients, is one of dozens of health care organizations that recently signed a joint statement in support of COVID-19 vaccine mandates for all workers in the industry. Biden asks states to offer $100 vaccine incentive as he pushes for vaccines for federal workers Even among health and long-term care employees, Villanueva noted, "I think it just really reflects what is happening in our nation -- that people have concerns, that people have been subjected to a lot of misinformation, and I think it's done us a big disservice." The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA), which represents 70 hospitals in the state, endorsed a policy on Thursday requiring its member hospitals to "implement mandatory vaccination policies for their employees," according to a statement.

According to MHA, each individual hospital "will establish its own policy and timeline for mandatory vaccination, exercising their independent judgment, based on their workforce," the needs of the community and compliance "with all federal and state laws in granting appropriate medical and religious exemptions." "We felt it was important to take a stand together," said Christine Schuster, president and CEO of Emerson Hospital, in a tweet. Debate over mask mandates More cities and states are reinstituting mask mandates after recent data suggested vaccinated and unvaccinated people could potentially carry a similar viral load if infected.

Palm Beach County, Florida, will require face masks indoors at all county buildings for those vaccinated and unvaccinated beginning next week, citing the rising COVID-19 positivity rates in South Florida, according to a statement from the county. San Francisco, which has more than 70% of residents vaccinated against COVID-19, is "very vigorously exploring a mask mandate," according to the city's Health Officer Dr. Grant Colfax. An announcement is expected as early as next week. "This is not a good time to not be fully vaccinated for COVID-19," Colfax said, urging residents to find a way to protect themselves by receiving the vaccine. Colfax noted that hospitalizations of vaccinated COVID-19 patients is a fraction of the number of those who are unvaccinated.

What's different about the delta variant? Here's what's known And it's not only cities and counties that are issuing guidance. The music festival Lollapalooza, which is wrapping up Sunday, said it would require masks in any indoor spaces this weekend after following the latest recommendation from the Chicago Department of Public Health. "We encourage all fans attending the festival to bring a mask as they attend the final two days of the festival," according to a festival tweet.

[I have not read this myself, Hubby has helped me with reading so I thought you would find it of interest to read it I cannot work out where to break the paragraphs so I have guess where they belong, so hope you will not get too angry with my work?]

Australia has no choice all for those over 60.

Read today, even the much-touted rollout of Australia's newly acquired Moderna vaccination ... it will be offered only to those eligible for the Pfizer vaccine when it is rolled out in Australia next month. Those over the age of 60 will remain eligible only for the AstraZeneca vaccine. 

 

Youth suicide crisis in Sydney as FORTY teens are rushed to hospital every day for self-harm amid 10-week lockdown - as Gladys Berejiklian complains 'I'm criticised no matter what I do'

The NSW Suicide Monitoring System found  8,489 people under 18 were rushed to hospital for self-harm and suicidal thoughts this year, to July 29.  The shocking figure, equating to 40 children a day, was a rise of 31 per cent over the same period last year, and 47 per cent from 2019. When the numbers were presented to Premier Gladys Berejiklian at her Covid press conference on Sunday morning, the state leader complained she would be criticised whether she kept the state locked down or not.

Just a follow-up on my experience with the AZ vaccine.  The second dose went without a hitch and it is now almost 4 weeks.  As some of you know I ended up in the hospital three weeks after the first one, not necessarily because of it, but who knows?

One interesting thing I noticed was that both my partner and myself were specifically asked if we had recently had a chemo treatment.  I'm assuming they are asking everyone that question, given my partner has never had chemotherapy and we weren't there together.  That question was on the original forms we filled out, but I found it interesting that it is now being asked of everyone again, just prior to getting the jab.  It made me wonder if my experience wasn't as unusual as I had thought.

My oncologist had claimed it was perfectly safe even if just within a few days, but the nurse administering the vaccine to me didn't seem to share his surety on that score.  I had finished my treatments a month earlier but she still wanted to consult a doctor before giving me the shot.  

I was understandably a little concerned but still went ahead, still more afraid of the virus than the vaccine.

Anyway, it appears that the second jab is a bit of a non-event.  So all's well that ends well, but I can totally understand why some people are reluctant.  Mixed messages.

 

 

For those who might be interested, a report on the development of the Covid-19 vaccines.  I've also posted this elsewhere.

Is it true? Were COVID-19 vaccines developed too quickly to be safe?              health.gov.au

 

 

"New Zealand on Monday reported what authorities said was the country's first recorded death linked to the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

The information was released by the health ministry following a review by an independent Covid-19 vaccine safety monitoring board of the death of a woman after receiving the vaccine. The ministry's statement did not give the woman's age.

The board considered that the woman’s death was due to myocarditis, which is known to be a rare side effect of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, the statement said. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that can limit the organ's ability to pump blood and can cause changes in heartbeat rhythms."

Aug. 30, 2021, 7:24 PM AEST / Source: Reuters

Bletch and others who are waiting for Pfizer

There is going to be a 4M doses of Pfizer vaccine swap with UK.

I was recently told that to get the Pfizer Jab you have needed to have certain illnesses/sickness, has anyone else hear this?  I have the requirements but have to fill in new forms. 

However, listening to the news we seem to have a lot of that vaccine coming into the country.

 

As I have said before my only blood relation has a reaction to AstraZ 8 weeks ago and was in hospital for some time and off work, it is a pity they don't know more because after taking one dose of that vaccine I may not see the next day as I had the stroke to boot!

The Medical Fraternity are hitting people in the dark as they don't know enough about the issues of this vaccine, the proof of the pudding has been in my sons case.

ABC

South Australia will become the first state to make the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination available to all residents aged over 12 years, including those above 60.
Premier Steven Marshall made the announcement less than 24 hours after the Northern Territory confirmed over-60s in the Top End could get the Pfizer jab.
"It's on for young and old," Mr Marshall told reporters on Saturday.
"From Monday, children aged 12 to 15 and people aged 60 and over will be able to book in for Pfizer vaccinations at state-run clinics.

 

 

Well I had my first shot of Pfizer last Monday morning!

Nice nurse looked after me and filled me in with all the information, was not as sore as the injection I had from the nurse at the doctors surgery!  LOL  That was for:-

 

Pneumonia OVERVIEWSYMPTOMSDIAGNOSISTREATMENTAn infection of the air sacs in one or both the lungs. Charactersied by severe cough with phelgm, fever, chills and difficulty in breathing.Common (More than 10,000 cases per year in Australia)Treatable by a medical professionalOften requires lab test or imagingCan last several weeks or monthsMay be preventable by vaccineTransmitted through respiratory dropletsDoctor wanted me to have this injection prior to the Pfizer as he said people who die from the virus usually die from Pneumonia OVERVIEWSYMPTOMSDIAGNOSISTREATMENTAn infection of the air sacs in one or both the lungs.

Charactersied by severe cough with phelgm, fever, chills and difficulty in breathing.Common (More than 10,000 cases per year in Australia)Treatable by a medical professionalOften requires lab test or imagingCan last several weeks or monthsMay be preventable by vaccineTransmitted through respiratory droplets