Originally Posted by Expatrick (Post 12961831)

1820 UK deaths just reported.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12961532)

Canada has a supply issue, but not at the fault of the government. Pfizer is pausing some production lines at their Belgium plant as they announced last week. Then today it was made known that next weeks order was deferred and Canada wont be receiving any, and then the first 2 weeks of February the deliveries will be roughly cut in half.


Hopefully J&J will be approved sometime in the next month, however their production has hit a snag and will be behind schedule so if approved in February may not see any until mid March to April.

Seems the US is about the only country not facing Pfizer delays, but they do have Pfizers largest or one of the largest manufacturing facilities so that helps.

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12948219)

Virus's mutate and adapt, it's nothing new.. there are over 200 variations/mutations of Covid 19**. This adaptation / mutation is to allow it to spread more easily, however, there is nothing showing that it is more virulent in it's effect on people (i.e. it's not having any worse effect than the usual variety - people aren't getting more seriously ill than the more common variety), nor that it's causing more deaths. It's been in the UK since September! More hype to feed the hysteria that is boris.
There are similar mutations elsewhere in the world already :)

**Correction - as of July 2020 apparently there were a total of 1,234 mutations (and doubtless more since)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s10038-020-0808-9

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12963003)

Now that they have some data, Boris seems to think that the UK variant is more deadly than the original.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...warns-12195663

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12963080)

I think the etc., sums it up. Once again it's conjecture, not proven by facts yet - it's 'believed / thought / supposed / presumed'
:)

Originally Posted by Siouxie (Post 12963080)

I think the etc., sums it up. Once again it's conjecture, not proven by facts yet - it's 'believed / thought / supposed / presumed'
:)

Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 12963963)

Suggestions in the UK that schools might not reopen until May. I feel so sorry for the people trying to work from home and do homeschooling of kids, it must be a nightmare.

Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 12963963)

Suggestions in the UK that schools might not reopen until May. I feel so sorry for the people trying to work from home and do homeschooling of kids, it must be a nightmare.

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 12964121)

Promising news regarding the nasty variants :fingerscrossed:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55797312

Originally Posted by OrangeMango (Post 12964190)

I think, not a single western country in the world has adequate plans for schooling during the pandemic. They also have no real understanding what it might mean for any kids if the report card or the leaving cert is from 2020.

I think once the pandemic is over kids should be given the option / choice to repeat the whole year without any hesitation. I think we owe it to the young generation to offer them education and leaving certs which have some value in the market and eliminate the "you graduated / left school in Corona 2020, no wonder you knowledge is that bad...."