the language these covid manics use aswell, âa tsunami of cases ripping through the communityâ sort of stuff
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what about my parents though ? Itâs the âIâm alright Jackâ is the problem no?
What about your parents?
Did you wrap them up in cotton wool every year seasonal flu came around?
For people who are compromised or vulnerable, Covid is just another thing added to list of things they need to be careful of.
People will die, thatâs a sad reality of life. Covid is a mild respiratory illness that is only really of risk to those in poor health and vulnerable. Covid is not the only thing in the world the ill or elderly need to be afraid of getting so why the special treatment?
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China considers Galway inhaled Covid-19 vaccine
An Irish company that makes medical devices has confirmed that its inhaled Covid-19 vaccine is being considered for emergency use in China and could be rolled out in several countries as early as next year.
Aerogen, which is based in Galway, has developed the product in conjunction with CanSinoBio, a Chinese vaccine company. Aerogen believes the vaccine could be a âgame-changerâ in the global fight against the virus in 2022.
The aerosol vaccine can be directly inhaled by a patient through a clear plastic cup, using as little as a fifth of the dose administered intravenously.
The vaccine is currently being reviewed by the National Medical Products Administration, Chinaâs medicines regulator, after clinical trials involving several hundred patients. The interim results of phase three of the clinical trials demonstrated an efficacy rate of 95.47 per cent at preventing severe disease, 14 days after a single-dose vaccine.
John Power, the chief executive of Aerogen, said if approval was granted in China there were plans to roll the vaccine out in Mexico, Pakistan, Chile and several other countries.
âEven though China has the capacity for 500 million doses of the vaccine per year, the government wanted them to produce more to rollout globally,â he said.
âThey were looking at other countries like Pakistan, Mexico, Chile and [parts of] Africa, where really the rollout has been pitiful.â
Power said the vaccine had the ability to achieve a âbiggerâ T-lymphocyte or T-cell response than other products, with very little vaccine required. âItâs quite logical when you think about it, the coronavirus comes in through your respiratory tract, it doesnât come in through your skin or through your veins â it comes in as you inhale it,â he said.
âSo their [CanSinoBio] theory, which is proved right, is that where you really want to trigger an immune response is not by injecting someone, but by delivering a virus in through the respiratory mucosa and triggering the exact response there rather than through the bloodstream.
âWhat they discovered is the response is quite different, T-cells that are activated to respond to the virus are more focused in respiratory mucosal response then in the vascular response, so you get a slightly different T-cell response, but you get a bigger T-cell response.â
Power said CanSinoBio carried out the clinical trials while Aerogen worked on the delivery system. âWe came up with the idea of a coffee dock station in order to separate the device from the actual container the person inhales from,â he said.
âWe needed something that was very cheap globally and I figured, coffee cups are manufactured all over the world and theyâre very cheap. We then moved from coffee cups to clear plastic cups because you could see the aerosol.â
He explained the process: âYou come along with the cup which is fed to the device. The device delivers the aerosol 0.1 millilitres and then it signals that the aerosol is full. You inhale from the cup â in one breath you take the 0.1 millilitres aerosol, you then dispose of the cup and youâve taken your vaccine.â
Power said the company had spoken to the Food and Drug Administration in the US and the European Medicines Agency in the early days of the trials but were told at that time that the pandemic âcould be overâ by the time their clinical trials were complete.
A further 4,688 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health last night including eight new cases of the Omicron variant bringing the total number in the state to 18. A total of 518 patients were being treated for the disease in hospital, 15 more compared to the day previous. There were 108 people with the virus in intensive care units, down one.
Stephen Donnelly, the minister for health, confirmed last night he had accepted a recommendation from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (Niac) to reduce the gap between the second and third dose of the vaccine to three months, amid growing concern of the Omicron variant. Up until now, only people who had received a J&J vaccine were eligible for a booster vaccine after three months, however, this will now be extended to recipients of all vaccines. The HSE has said one third of those who received a booster vaccine last week were given a Moderna dose as supply of the product is close to its expiry date. It said most people being offered a third dose at mass vaccination centres will be given Moderna, rather than Pfizer.
Meanwhile, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) has said the government must provide âaccess to expertiseâ on best usage of its Covid-19 funding. The government has announced a âŹ10 million fund for improved ventilation in pre-school and childcare facilities, including the purchase of high-efficiency particulate air (Hepa) filters.
The grants, which range from âŹ1,500 for facilities with less than 50 children to âŹ4,500 for those with more than 100 children, may be insufficient to fund Hepa filters for all rooms, based on the governmentâs own cost estimates. MicheĂĄl Martin, the taoiseach, told the Dail last week that Hepa filters for primary and post-primary classrooms would cost between âŹ1,500 and âŹ1,800 each.
Michael Gillespie, the general secretary of the TUI, said: âIn addition to making this funding available, it is crucial that the department provides access to expertise on ventilation and related issues so that schools can best use the resources available.
âThe importance of adequate ventilation in keeping schools and colleges safe has been continuously referenced and universally recognised, but it must be borne in mind that no two schools are the same. Even within particular schools, classroom spaces are not uniform in terms of size, shape, orientation and ventilation facilities.â
Im sure you could, no problem
The problem is exactly that⌠These people canât look beyond themselves or their world view. Narcissists.
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Thatâd be lovely.
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No, but I donât remember my parents getting that fucked up from the flu. I know people who have had Covid, and have been seriously sick and fucked up in hospital. I donât remember them ever getting crocked over the flu like that. People will die, thatâs a sad reality, so if your folks or aunt or brother or sister dies from covid, thatâs just tough shit then? Yes, I agree, getting cancer is far more serious than getting covid.
Daily testing figures to plummet as Christmas gets closer.
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Flu never had an aggressive marketing campaign that put the fear of God into anyone who got sniffles.
They can die from Covid, same as anything else. Thatâs life.
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You should mention to your relatives about the vaccines. Covid isnât going to kill them if they try them.
Theyâre all vaccinated
Itâs not just a flu though ffs. I do not agree that anyone should be forced to get a vaccine though.
âNot just a fluâ
We have another flu denier here.
Have to agree with this. Covid is incredibly unlikely to do much damage to anyone who is vaxxed, especially with the booster. My parents are both in their 70s but theyâre triple vaxxed and thereâs fuck all risk to them. To be honest even if I got it myself Iâd be reluctant to self-isolate from them but I know theyâd insist on it.
The only real risk is just an indirect risk of the hospitals being overwhelmed.
You seemed to think the opposite last night?
Maybe you were still drunk.
What are the flu deaths v covid deaths since then. Again, it is a fact that people have been on ventilators in hospitals because they got covid, some dead within a week. Is this acceptable or just another auld bad flu? Again, I wouldnât wish someone close to you dies roaring or gurgling more likely from it, but you probably need to experience it to have some empathy.
Everyone is all about themselves these days. Me me me me. Fuck everyone else. Thatâs the problem. We are an entitled bunch of cunts.
Claire byrne is some fucking Headcase. Sheâs spent the last twenty minutes looking for somebody to say the schools should close on Friday. Then drops in if the schools close on Friday a lot of people will want the pubs to remain closed. Sheâs an utter crazy individual.
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and yet, nearly 2 years into this, theyve still done very little to increase ICU capacity
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