This could become your 3D chess thing.
In the Guardian;
Despite dozens of deaths of people shortly after they were vaccinated, the available evidence does not incriminate the new Covid vaccines, AFP reports, with health agencies saying that the vast majority of post-vaccination fatalities were elderly, already vulnerable and often sick.
Egghead after getting slapped down by Fritz and Hermann after shouting from the rooftops last week about stockpiling J&J vaccine here before the EU Medical Agency approves it. Nein, nein, nein says the EU.
The Nuala variant mightnât be so bad after all. Will someone tell glas.
Death rate of 13 in 10,000 as opposed to 10 in 10,000 according to what limited data they have.
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30% MORE DEADLY
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TUM vindicated by SCIENCE
Extremely foolishâ not to urge vitamin D supplementation for all, says scientist
After research published in Scientific Reports showed an âimpressive linear correlationâ between European countriesâ latitude and the date of their autumn Covid surge, and pointed to vitamin D levels as a contributory factor, there are calls to rapidly address deficiencies of the sunshine nutrient across the continent.
Jon Rhodes, an emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Liverpool, said:
This study confirms previous reportsshowing associations between Covid-19 risk and latitude and this fits with its evident seasonality. The risk of dying from Covid-19 correlates with ethnicity, obesity, and also with lack of sunlight /ultraviolet exposure - whether as a consequence of latitude, season, or by being institutionalised. All these factors are strongly associated with vitamin D deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency impairs immune function and a recent study has shown this can be readily corrected by daily supplementation. Doctors, many of whom take vitamin D supplements themselves, know that placebo-controlled interventional trials are not the only form of useful scientific evidence â smoking and lung cancer being a classic example.
We know about half the UK population are likely to be vitamin D deficient. It is extremely foolish not to urge daily vitamin D supplementation for everyone during the pandemic - it is very cheap and safe, at worst will do no harm, and at best might be lifesaving for many.
The studyâs author, Stephan Walrand, from Cliniques Universitaires, the largest hospital in Brussels, Belgium, wrote in the peer-reviewed paper:
As already evidenced by previous correlation studies, a low [vitamin D] concentration should be considered a contributing factor to Covid-19 severity. Europe and the northern USA are starting a long Covid-19 crisis this autumn, as they will return to a level above the October sun UV daily dose only at the end of March 2021. Measures to reduce the pandemic severity during the coming winter using controlled preventive vitamin D supplementation should be considered.
A graph from the study shows no correlation between temperature or humidity and Covid surge dates, but a stark relationship with latitude. Photograph: Scientific Reports
Research suggesting a link between low vitamin D levels and the worst Covid outcomes is growing. There are many dozens of observational studies from around the world that make such indications, along with a randomised control trial (RCT) from Andalusia, Spain.
The study, conducted in early September, 50 patients with Covid-19 were given a high dose of vitamin D, while another 26 patients did not receive the nutrient. Half of patients who werenât given vitamin D had to be placed in intensive care, and two later died. Only one patient who received vitamin D required ICU admission, and they were later released with no further complications.
The researchers are now doing a much larger trial across a number of hospitals. Meanwhile, results are expected in the coming weeks from a large French trial that was reportedly named a ânational research priorityâ by the French government in December.
An RCT with 6,200 patients was launched in the UK with charitable funding in October to examine whether vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk and severity of Covid-19 and other acute respiratory infections.
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Interesting defence, they were going to die anyway.
Report the cunts. Iâm not bias against them at all
Any chance of personal responsibility ever being an option. Stay under the bed if you want, go out and live life if you want?
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What happened in December when people were given that option?
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Should moneys being spent on PUP not be focused on extra spaces in hospitals?
Takes a year and a half to train an ICU nurse in this country, pal.
always plenty of excuses with Paddy, is that why they couldnât be bothered their arse increasing ICU capacity during the summer?
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Breda has to sleep off the hangovers from the nights out in McGowanâs. Canât be expecting her to attend class more than 3 days a week
You never answered my question mateâŚ
Can anyone confirm if Holohan and Varadkar are administering the vaccine in their spare time?
I d love a night in mcgowans!