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To be fair they vaccinated 220,000 people yesterday
To hit target they need to be vaccinating 355,000 people per day, that will increase as each day passes where they are below that but the vaccinations do seem to be going well.
the UK is undeniably way ahead of other countries in the EU
Without the vaccine we should have locked down much sooner which would have had a far greater impact than even the fastest vaccine rollout, in my opinion.
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Putting Covid vaccines into pills could soon move from dream to reality after a Sussex-based biotech signed an agreement with a US pharmaceutical company to test the technology in clinical trials.
Burgess Hill-based IosBio has found a way to turn injected vaccines into orally administered tablets. The technology is now being used by ImmunityBio, a Californian company developing a vaccine against Covid after signing a licensing agreement with iosBio.
Clinical trials in monkeys have shown the oral vaccine made using iosBio technology to be highly effective, while the jab version is already in phase two/three trials.
The oral vaccine will begin clinical trials on Americans this month and ImmunityBio is applying for regulatory approval to run trials in the UK.
IosBio’s technology is called OraPro. It engineers vaccines into pills that can withstand temperatures of up to 50C, allowing them to pass through the stomach and be directly absorbed into the mucous membranes.
“You catch Covid in your mucosal cells,” said Wayne Channing, chief executive of iosBio. “But with jabs you get injected into the arm which goes into the muscles and blood cells. Our tablets go straight into mucosal cells to illicit mucosal immunity so we hit the virus where it is.
“When you catch this virus you breath it in or swallow it and 80pc of your immune system cells are mucosal so we are addressing that directly. I think this will be a new paradigm in vaccination.”
Under the terms of the licensing agreement, ImmunityBio has exclusive rights to OraPro. In return, IosBio will get royalties on global sales of the approved vaccine.
“The results from the non-human primate trial were outstanding for oral and I think oral is the right strategy,” Mr Channing added.
“Patrick Soon-Shiong, the chief executive of ImmunityBio, called me and said he had woken up at 3am and thought, this should be an oral vaccine.”
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"By analysing the contacts and retracing the steps of the 128,808 people who'd reported they had tested positive between 9 November and 15 November, PHE data has uncovered the most frequent locations people with the virus had been, prior to testing positive"
Doesn't prove for sure but it's something PHE published back in November.
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that Rapha is offering it (for free) and believe me I need it! But the nice lady went SO fast, I found it almost impossible to keep up with. Just about managed, somehow, but it was constantly that thing where the instructor has been doing it for nearly
If you registered interest you could click a link after to download it
pm me if you need the download, think ive downloaded 3 of them to do later
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my sister has had the exact same reaction to the second dose along with several of her friends (all young nurses). A rough night sleep with fever and then feeling tired next day.
She has to isolate until she gets a test result - begs the question what will happen when masses receive the second dose, will huge amounts of people have to isolate?