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If the entire world has to be vaccinated every year for the foreseeable future...it is going to get very tedious indeed.
( especially if it is a two dose regime)
I agree, its a shame more people don’t know the difference between colds and flu. The number if students I had with colds who claimed to have flu and thus had not done their homework. You can imagine the microbiology lesson I then gave them, I am sure
Exactly, I have had it twice or may be three times. The first time was when I was having Julia, literally . I stayed in hospital after the birth for a week so I could rest. And collapsed a day after I got home. Where upon I was back in bed for three days.I was so thankful to my Mum and Bob who had to look after both me and JuliaMarilyn wrote: ↑23 Mar 2021, 08:36Our adult kids claim to have “flu” two or three times a year. If you have ever had true flu ( I did once in my 20s) you would never call a cold “the flu” ever again! ( I am talking “unable to get out of bed for a wee and could not stand up long enough to take a shower” type flu. I ended up in hospital on Day 5 (after our GP called the ambulance and did a prayer at my bedside!) had not had even a shower for that long...I just wanted to die..expected I would...and really didn’t care!)
Good question, Maz - keep asking them! The answer is an international project called COVAX which is explained here: COVAX
Sorry Sue, I'd had a bad night's sleep and wasn't keeping track very well. Yes, it is interesting, thanks for flagging up the article. At least this pandemic is forcing us into a step learning curve as regards the properties of viruses and vaccines. I listened to this Evan Davis episode yesterday on `Perparedness' in the `Lessons On A Crisis' series (Radio 4). It's excellent, very informative... LINK
No, statesmanship is off the menu. But it was good to hear Farrar, talking of whom...Stanley wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021, 08:27 Just been listening to Sir Jeremy Farrar - Director of The Wellcome Trust and one of the experts advising the government talking eminent good sense and recommending that instead of slagging the EU off we should send some vaccines to the most badly served in Europe by their own leaders. It calls for statesmanship. Question is, do we have any of that?