Thai COVID-19 vaccine acquisitions

[StevieWonders]

Thai PBS has published an overview of current Thai announcements (“policies” is too strong a term) about vaccine acquisition:

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailan...-second-surge/

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[cdnmatt]

Ok, they got their plans up to 31.5 million people now. Only another 23.5 million to go.

Canada went and put orders in for like 400 million back in March / April, so I'm sure we'll be nice and share.

[Moggy]

Its just been announced the Oxford vaccine is effective against the covid strain detected by the UK and also the South African strain.

[Zebedee]

Its just been announced the Oxford vaccine is effective against the covid strain detected by the UK and also the South African strain.

WOW! Thats fantastic news.
Moggy would you please post a link to that.

[dinagam]

Its just been announced the Oxford vaccine is effective against the covid strain detected by the UK and also the South African strain.

How convenient!
They produced the strain as well as the vaccine for it.

[Nirish guy]

Thank god for that as I’m not sure I could start this shit all over again ! Now let’s hope it works on the next few new strains when they appear too !

[Zebedee]

Its just been announced the Oxford vaccine is effective against the covid strain detected by the UK and also the South African strain.

Thanks Moggy I found a source and it is very encouraging.

"The Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech appears to protect against a mutation in two coronavirus variants that are causing rapid spread across the UK, research suggests.
The pharmaceutical company and researchers from the University of Texas medical branch carried out lab tests on the variants, one of which was found in the UK while the other originated in South Africa."

For balance:

"Stephen Evans, a professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “This is good news, mainly because it is not bad news.
“Had the opposite result been found, that the vaccine did not seem to have efficacy against the variation of the virus studied, that would have been bad and very concerning.
“So, yes this is good news, but it does not yet give us total confidence that the Pfizer (or other) vaccines will definitely give protection."



https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...study-suggests

[StevieWonders]

The commentary about the current vaccines can be summed up as “If it works (it doesn’t for everyone) at the very least it will reduce severity if you do catch COVID-19 but there’s no guarantee you won’t infect others even if the vaccine protects you”. Based on that, countries such as Australia are warning that international travel may not resume until late 2021 at the earliest.

[StevieWonders]

An addendum to the above - here’s a link to the Australian views influencing government decisions -

https://www.smh.com.au/business/comp...06-p56s3t.html

When Qantas announced it was reopening bookings for international travel from July the government was swift to respond with a “not so fast - we make the decisions, not you” comment.

[Moggy]

WOW! Thats fantastic news.
Moggy would you please post a link to that.

It was announced on Sky news
and found this https://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...t-b757501.html