The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
Probably not the most reliable of sources..
From Wikipedia..
The Swiss Policy Research site has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories including claims that QAnon was a psyop of the FBI.[4] and theories relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][5] German public broadcasterTagesschau calls SPR a propaganda tool.[6]
well they are either involved and want to let people know, or not involved and want to be.
So one of the 2, impossible to know from the tweet though.
Hopefully involved obviously
TattyHead I was referring to the bickering in the other now deleted thread as much as the OP.
I've only watched a couple of his video's and found his one on SNG to be very educational about how interferon works, I've not seen anything else better (but I haven't really felt the need to look).
As for vitamin D, to me it's a no lose, you can get a years supply for £7, if it increases your defenses by 1% then it's money well spent and if it doesn't then it's likely you'll be healthier for it anyway, especially in winter.
People who deal with the science shouldn't be in the business of "promoting" anyone or anything, there are plenty of people who can do that, just get on with the science.
John Campbell put out one of the most informative videos on how interferon works back in July
As news came up he reported on it, nothing has changed about how it works so no reason for a new video.
Interferon Beta is a known injectable treatment, that's were the £21 came from.
You can easily google the price (I found a dose for £39.77 here https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/interferon-beta.html)
Obviously there is the inhalator and I assume the course of treatments would be £2k and the mark up for SNG.
Really don't understand the hate on this board these days, go buy a GME share and have some fun.
"i believe its different for respiratory viruses...we are after all on covid 19!!
we have already had covid1, covid2, covid3, covid4....etc etc..."
Nope - 19 is the year it was discovered in. Doesn't mean there was a 1,2,3,4
The article is completely wrong and the policy has been clarified.
Dr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: "We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa."
Almost like peddling anti-vac stuff or scaremongering sells and people are making money off of it.
I think I've seen that a response to the 1st Jab is expected after 22 days, your body has to go through the process of recognizing the foreign body and learning to deal with it. Even after the 1st Jab, once your body has leant, it has some good resistance, the 2nd jab is about topping up the resistance and getting the maximum effectiveness. Some of the COVID vaccines will only need 1 jab.
But what's clear it's not a quick process to get everyone vaccinated. I don't fall into any of the high risk categories and I'm not expecting a vaccine until the 2nd half of the year. We're also (in the UK) ahead of the curve globally, so testing and treatments have a long long way to go yet.
Great Headline but...
1) Vaccines don't work for about 3 weeks, so we could say Nurse tests positive for COVID 2 weeks before vaccine is meant to start.
2) Vaccines don't prevent you from getting COVID, they do...
- make it much less likely you will get COVID (they are not 100%)
- make it much less likely you will need hospitalization if you do catch COVID
- make it much less likely you will pass on COVID.
So while I wholeheartedly agree that testing is here to stay (but not at the levels we currently see), I can't agree with the inference of your post.
So what the BBC and the Prof say is that THIS strain is unlikely to be any less resistant to the vaccine than the previous strain.
What he is saying is that this variant could be the first of a number of steps to a vaccine resistant strain. So no this isn't an article that says that THIS strain is any less resistant.
Fortunately there are a number of vaccines that work in different ways. Also mutations can do many things, they can speed things up, or make it less dangerous.
LFT's should be part of the COVID solution and used when appropriate, but seems clear that they are being misunderstood and misused.
If you want to test a large population quickly in a city like Liverpool, then LFT is all well and good.
If you want to protect Care Homes, NHS workers then LFT should be nowhere near consideration.
Gizmo - what do we know about those 6 people who died.
1) 4 of them were in the placebo group
2) the 2 that died in the vaccine group - there deaths were not linked to the vaccine.
Sonicboomboy, if you feel that there is not enough evidence for you, fair enough, thats your choice, more and more data will become available and hopefully your threshold of evidence will be met for you to take a vaccine at some stage.
Most of us are a long way from being offered the chance to have the vaccine anyway. Until then, and for a long time after there is a huge market opportunity that NCYT can exploit.
Gizmo, would be interested to understand where you get the data that the pfizer vaccine was not proven in over 50's.
41% of the approximately 44,000 people in the study where 56 years or older, so about 18,000 people, of which about half will have received the vaccine, so about 9000 people.
Source https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine
Airlineboy, if you don't like vaccines, that's fine.
I'd rather people came out and said "I don't think this vaccine is for me", rather than post a title that infers something that isn't true (and is actually confirmed as untrue by the detail.)
If there are genuine concerns about vaccines, then posts like this distract from the debate.
I'm all for the vaccines that are being developed, but there will be a need for testing for a long while yet which is why I'm invested here. I don't see it as mutually exclusive.
Porky, while I agree that people should not be discouraged from posting there has been a general "anti-vax" bias on this board.
The headline "2 Pfizer trial participants die." while true puts a clear bias on proceedings, the implication is that it has something to do with the trial. We have to go into the detail to clarify that it was nothing to do with the vaccine.
You can see by the replies that the assumption is made that this "news" shows the vaccine in a negative light.
Owning shares in a scientific testing company does not mean that all other branches of science that may help against COVID need to be trashed.
“After an in-depth examination, no connection was found between the experiment and the cause of death.”
So what does that mean??
It means they could have been hit by a bus, or died of a heart attack.
There is a huge difference between.
1) The vaccine does not stop transmission
2) The vaccine has not been proved to stop or slow transmission.
The second statement should probably have the word "yet" at the end.
This deliberate misrepresentation of facts is used all the time against anti vax.
We still need testing and lots of it. The vaccines are here to stay.