Covid Vaccinations - are they really effective as they say?
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Now i was rather hoping that the claims of 90% + effectiveness were true but, my Mothers partner had his jab (he was one of the very first over 80's) but is currently very poorly in QA Hospital, Portsmouth with Covid.
He developed pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and tested negative for Covid. He subsequently ended up in hospital - again, testing negative for Covid on arrival, but after a week in hospital and despite the Covid vaccination in early January - he's now extremely poorly and has now tested positive for Covid.
Hospital has said to expect the worst. No visitors allowed and he can't speak on the phone due to infection.
He developed pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and tested negative for Covid. He subsequently ended up in hospital - again, testing negative for Covid on arrival, but after a week in hospital and despite the Covid vaccination in early January - he's now extremely poorly and has now tested positive for Covid.
Hospital has said to expect the worst. No visitors allowed and he can't speak on the phone due to infection.
Candellara said:
He developed pneumonia a couple of weeks ago and tested negative for Covid.
Best wishes to mother's father, however isn't the fact that he has pneumonia the underlying reason why he's very ill?Pneumonia in the over 80s it quite often fatal in itself.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC46128...
Study said:
Severe pneumonia in the elderly is difficult to treat commonly in pneumology department and often involves in multiple organs. It is serious, has a rapid progression and the mortality is high.
cymatty said:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ThatRyanChap/status/136...
https://mobile.twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1...
It seems so
Although I do remember the media using the uppermost confidence intervals when declaring the increased transmissibility of certain variants.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 19th February 14:07
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 19th February 14:16
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-pfizer-vaccine...
Extract:
A new COVID vaccine efficacy study from Israel has concluded that Pfizer/BioNTech's jab is up to 85% effective after the first dose.
The research, conducted by the Sheba Medical Centre, the country's largest hospital, has been published in the Lancet medical journal.
The hospital assessed the effectiveness of the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine among 7,000 of its healthcare employees.
Extract:
A new COVID vaccine efficacy study from Israel has concluded that Pfizer/BioNTech's jab is up to 85% effective after the first dose.
The research, conducted by the Sheba Medical Centre, the country's largest hospital, has been published in the Lancet medical journal.
The hospital assessed the effectiveness of the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine among 7,000 of its healthcare employees.
Mammasaid said:
Candellara said:
He was recovering well from pneumonia, on the mend and moved to a general ward. We all thought that as he'd had the vaccination he managed to dodge that bullet. Then he contracted COVID and this has created a secondary infection apparently which is very serious. Didn't realise that the transmission of Covid was so rife within what is supposed to be a pretty sterile environment?
It's an airborne pathogen, people are constantly exhaling more of the virus into the air. Also, hospitals aren't "pretty sterile" or even close to it. They sanitise their infrastructure to a degree, but they can't really clean the air and that is where the vast majority of infections come from.Mastodon2 said:
It's an airborne pathogen, people are constantly exhaling more of the virus into the air. Also, hospitals aren't "pretty sterile" or even close to it. They sanitise their infrastructure to a degree, but they can't really clean the air and that is where the vast majority of infections come from.
Indeed. Only single rooms with positive pressure ventilation offer a degree of sterile atmosphere.These are the kind of places they keep Immunosuppressed people in hospital, like chemotherapy patients.
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