Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

I presumed that's what you were building back to, luckily no one believes that lie anymore :) Your entire argument is predicated on a lie, thus it all collapses on itself.

The fact that SARS-COV2 vaccines both reduce transmission and infection rates among all age groups and regardless of underlying conditions thus should be administered to everyone so we can get back to normality.

Hi there everybody, just a quick one re: vaccine for kids. Our oldest just turned 12 so thinking about getting her vaccinated. What side effect did your kids get? Is it just the usual ones? sore arm, fatigue, fever? We are pro vaccines, but not sure if we should go ahead or wait a little longer for more data. There are no older or vulnerable people in a family or neighbourhood. Thanks

I've 2 in this category including a 12 year old.

The youngest had a high temp after both doses and was very tired after the 2nd. A spoonful of calpol and a day in front of the ps5 on both occasions and he was grand.

The older child didn't have any side effects after the 1st and was just very tired and running a temperature after the 2nd.

After the 2nd night's sleep they were back to normal.

Ireland has the highest percentage uptake of full vaccination among adults over 18 years of age in the EU, according to the European Centre for Disease Control, just ahead of Malta and Denmark.

Over 90% of people aged 16 years and older are now fully vaccinated and 86.8% of those aged 12 years and older have been fully vaccinated.

Our youngest is 12 years old. He had his second shot two weeks ago. After the first one, he just had a sore arm. After the second one, the arm was sorer, he was tired and had a slight fever for a few hours. This only lasted about a day and a half and he has been fine with no problems since. Pretty much the same side effects as adults get.

I'm trying to decide if I should make sure my teen has at least 4 weeks gap between doses. I'm aware of the 17 days & 3 weeks recommendation, but this got me confused again:

They said on Newstalk that the 3 weeks gap between doses might have been too short and that contributed to Israel's issues:

No, I haven't. I used the walk-in option and I'm planning to do so again. So will set the timing myself in any case.

Just looking at the county vaccine statistics. I seen waterford had the highest uptake. I was just wondering how this is calculated? Waterford has a vaccination rate of over 99% but I know a LOT of people in Waterford who are unvaccinated. I was wondering if they are keeping a database or just comparing the number of vaccines administered in Waterford vs CSO figures for the population of Waterford.

Not been here in a while. Hello gang, hope all of you are well :)

Manager in work got COVID a month ago while waiting for his second jab. He's grand now, just has no taste or smell. I gave him some extremely strong mints the other day and they didn't even phase him, while the rest of us that tried them were running for water hahahaaha

Another mildly interesting stat is that in the last week we've administered 13k first doses and had 9k confirmed cases. Given that confirmed cases is surely a significant under-estimate of infections, this means we're probably now gaining new immunity faster through infection than vaccination (ignoring the 100k second doses).

Has anyone seen any recent SEIR modelling for mostly-vaccinated populations? Our demographics might see us trapped in a R=~1.0 situation where the rate of infection isn't low enough to fully suppress community transmission, but not high enough to induce herd immunity. I'm not sure whether this would be a problem to be solved by a <12 vaccination campaign or just something to be worked around by the immunosuppressed.

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Says a lot about where Sanofi see the course of this thing going. If they believed that boosters and new variants, etc, were going to be a feature for years to come, they would probably continue developing their vaccine.

This suggests that Sanofi believe that the future market for Covid vaccines is sufficiently limited that they will never recoup the costs of completing the trials.

Vaccines reduce transmission, infection and severity of disease significantly.

They prevent nothing, it's still the persons immune system which has to do the work, the vaccines just give it a much better chance at doing so.

Vaccination stats from Brian MacCraith.