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I'm very unhappy too, RICH3R. We were really strung along on this one. I knew it was risky, but still. I only put in what I could afford too lose but it still hurts quite a lot.

The UK government wouldn't have acted as they did if it wasn't serious. It takes a lot to get them to act because they would rather do nothing and pretend it all wasn't happening, this is clear from their past behaviour.

Woodstock, I agree to an extent but I'd rather be alive and poor than dead and rich.

Mike, you're right, which is why we need to keep cases low and not do what the government are intent on doing.

Stay, be patient. The Synairgen story hasn't played out yet.

I was thinking of topping up when it went below £1 but I was too much of a coward.

What about the rest of the world? Do you know how long it will take to vaccinate them? What about the vaccine arms race against the new variants?

I don't know what people were expecting, but from my layman's reading the news seemed extremely positive.

This is not surprising as the vaccines are not 100% effective although the severity of the disease you will get will be less if you are one of the unlucky ones.

Still this is vanishingly rare and won't be a problem once the majority have had the vaccine and it has hopefully conferred herd immunity.

There always seems to be a problem whenever Astrazeneca release trial data around their Covid vaccine. I would still gladly take it if it was what I was offered as Covid is a much bigger risk, but this company are certainly making it more difficult to trust them than they should.

They are using absence of evidence as evidence.

Graking, it's looking a bit shady isn't it? As you say they messed up the dosage to get the vaunted 90% efficacy figure, but then on review the data was not reliable enough for that dosage regimen to be approved, they also averaged this unreliable data with the 62% to get the 70%+ efficacy.

They also seem to have an aversion to testing older people, these preliminary South African results look shockingly bad, at least the Johnson and Johnson vaccine which is about as effective as Astrazeneca otherwise and 57% effective on the SA variant is a single dose vaccine.

*average age 31.

Prion, I understand that, but what about in South Africa, why was the average 31?

Yes, why do Astrazeneca seem to have an aversion to testing older people? It's very strange.

This is very worrying, the Astrazeneca vaccine was supposed to be our great white hope. However, I'd rather have the Johnson and Johnson one: just a single dose, about as effective as the Astrazeneca one on standard Covid, comprehensive data that shows it is just as effective for the over 65s and 57% effective against the South African which is a lot better than these preliminary Astrazeneca numbers. The sample size tested was much bigger as well. Hopefully Synairgen can help but our government seem strangely uninterested.

Prepare to be amazed.

That's quite worrying, mugwump. Why are they being so slow about it? It beggars belief. I hope you feel better now, it's no joke to have Covid.

110, if Boris Johnson had successfully suppressed the virus like New Zealand then lockdowns would either have been for a very limited period time or not have been required at all. It's his dithering and naked self interest, in caring only about his popularity rather than taking tough decisions, that have cost lives.

Buddyhell, it's looking very necessary right now unfortunately. Particularly if this new strain really is spreading much faster. This is why it was so important to suppress the virus like New Zealand did at the start, the more it hangs around the more opportunity there is for it to mutate like this.