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Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 3, 2021, at 19:31:19

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 3, 2021, at 19:20:21


> But my story makes it sound like low dose aspirin might prevent the whole shebang.

and no it does not. aspirin would help with the clots forming by preventing the platelets activating the coagulation cascade -- but it wouldn't stop the macrophage from chowing down on the antibodies. and they were saying there was a rash indicative of platelet insufficiency...

so it does make sense.

i think... it is a temporary response. that is to say you give supportive treatment to get teh person through a crisis time and then their body rights itself. so a kind of a delayed allergic response. a complication of exposure to a virus they thought, in kawasaki disease, often. or a response to an immunisation. yes.

i think you can remove the spleen, too. but given that it's a temporary response / reaction that would probably be a bit uncalled for.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k

Posted by Phillipa on April 3, 2021, at 20:37:31

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 3, 2021, at 19:31:19

Do you feel that this vaccine should be taken off the market then and switch to Pfizer? I think Pfizer now is the better one. My reasoning is why would the company be doing trials on infants from 6 months to age 11? Or could it be that the viral vector this vaccine uses isn't the right one. Which animal is it from again? Phillipa

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » Phillipa

Posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 17:52:43

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k, posted by Phillipa on April 3, 2021, at 20:37:31

> Do you feel that this vaccine should be taken off the market then and switch to Pfizer?

How would you want them to make a good decision on whether they should take it off the market, or not?

One way of thinking about it... Is to go... How many people would have got these blood clots if the never received a vaccine? And the answer to that is that we don't really know. That's the base incidence.

Then you go... How many MORE got these clots because they took the vaccine? I mean... Are we talking 1 in 100 or 1 in 10,000 or one in 1,000,000 or...

And then we go... How treatable are these clots, anyway, now that we know about taking it seriously if people present with difficulty after taking the vaccine...

And then we go... How many people will die of Covid if we withhold these vaccines?

And then we go... And how much money will all that cost?

And then I go: Gee. It seems pretty darned complicated. It even seems to be a case where rational people could disagree... So... Why not let people make up their own mind? That is to say uphold their human right to choose to have (or to choose not to have) medical treatment.

Would I not take the Astra Zeneca over this?

Mmm. I tempted early on by Moderna... But then I came to my senses a bit about letting the young'uns get there and have a go first (right behind you!!) and then I thought that Johnson most probably. I would probably choose that one.

> I think Pfizer now is the better one. My reasoning is why would the company be doing trials on infants from 6 months to age 11?

I think all of them would want to vaccinate kids, eventually. Nobody likes much to be the first to be experimenting on children (can't give consent) or pregnant women... There are special protections around protecting the interests of kids so their parents don't sell them to be experimental research subjects...


> Or could it be that the viral vector this vaccine uses isn't the right one. Which animal is it from again? Phillipa

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine.html

I think one needs to be a bit careful about politics. The Olympics was cancelled this year (it is largely about drug technology these days, unfortunately, because of how good we have gotten with training protocols particularly with popular mens sports)... So we got the health system Olympics instead...

There is an element of... Nationalism... Whereby the Americans are going to hate on the Oxford vaccine, you know they are...

But also where they are going to take them to task a bit.

For their use of animals in research. It has been shown to be unnecessary. Other companies managed to do without using Chimpanzee... You don't need to keep animals in apppalling conditions and sacrifice their lives to advance Medicine. You don't. People just *enjoy* it and aren't that bright to conceive of alternatives. There is a will to believe that. It turns out to be true.

Some people are very invested in otherwise because it's the stories they tell themselves to justify their crimes...

Another problem with the Oxford one was the dosing. Finding that giving 1/2 the initial dose they recommended (by *accident* -- which is not plausible) conferred higher immunity. Giving the dose they rolled out in the first major clinical trial they were getting around 70 per cent immunity. Which was what they aimed or hoped (what everyone aimed or hoped) the vaccines would have. So they met their target... But apparently by some unfathomable accient (yeah right) someone gave 1/2 dose and discovered more like over 90 per cent immunity.

So... Why over-dose?

$$$$$

It has been an accusation of countries bitching and moaning and complaining about the cost of medicine that the drug companies recommend doses that are in excess of what it theraputic for the profits. Teh drugs are expensive so saying people need more of them or higher doses is profit driven. Then nations like NZ try and say they aren't being cheap in giving people half doses of expensive medications -- they say they are getting theraputic results...

It seems that something like that may have been behind the Oxford dosing. The aim was as MUCH of the expensive component as they could do... But it turned out less was more when it came to immune response.

I don't know. SOmething dodgey seems to have gone on there.

I remember I was worried about that...

It is like...

What do people die of? I mean... People get a virus... So what? But people die from having the virus. But why? What does the virus do to kill them, exactly? People were drowning in respiratory secretions. They weren't able to respirate across the surface of their lungs... They werent' getting enough oxygen. So the virus was doing something to the respiratory surface of the lungs. Clogging it. Or creating... An immune response and that immune response was clogging it.

In Covid... They were saying it was the immune response that was potentially the lethal element. The harms that were resulting in death were the body's immune response or immune reaction to the virus.

So I did worry that if that was the case... Then vaccination... You would want to be careful not to induce deaths by the same mechanism that Covid did. Not giving people Covid... But having them die by teh same mechanism given that the immune response to Covid was the problem.

I would have thought.

But what do I know. I can't even get a Masters from a NZ University ahahahhahaha.

Something about whistle-blowing.

Because people don't actually want to do genuine research often enough or help people often enough...

I am glad we are not getting the Astra Zeneca one in NZ. I think there will be lessons learned of some kind in England and Australia. It's for their health systems to develop...

SO they will perform better next health system olympics...


 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 18:02:13

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » Phillipa, posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 17:52:43

I think the issue with how much vaccine to give is to do with how we do research on drugs.

We do research on them from the perspective of toxicology. That is to say we are obsessed with how much exposure is lethal.

It means that in the animal research it is often 'how much exposure will kill them'. So we subject animals to high dose... Fly spray. Cosmetics. Anasthetics. Etc. We want to plot a dose-response graph... And we sort of dissociate from the fact that we mostly can extrapolate from the known without running many trials that we know are likely to inflict harm or death...

But it's routine for animal research.

And that's why there is concern (rightly) about experimenting on people, too. Toxicity studies.

Methodology needs to develop more humanely.

I think a lot of it just comes from this idea that more must be better. So people are over-dosed not because of greed, really. Just because people want to do everything they can and there is a natural inclination or tendancy to try something... More invasive than what is needed. Or whatever. A young male thing... Because we valued that in doctors... Get in there. Have a go. Be bold. Be a pioneer...

And the science, too.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 18:05:57

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 18:02:13

I am curious about why we aren't finding clots in other types of vaccine. They are all producing antibodies to Covid but only the AstraZeneca one seems to be producing antibodies that are activating the platelets. Or something else that is activating the platelets.

I wonder if less of a dose... Maybe splitting the first dose into 2 half doses...

That is something that I heard someone say (a relatively junior I thought but actually perhaps more mid-career)... Some medication she was hoping to get to prescribe in NZ... She was saying we could (sort of unofficially) give half doses for good results...

I thought the whole thing was super-dodgey... But maybe this is a thing with UK medications.

I don't know.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k

Posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:23:30

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » Phillipa, posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 17:52:43

Thanks chimps it is then. I had forgotten about the mistaken half doses being given that produced a more robust response than the original two dose vaccine. But in England they are still giving two doses but have spread the doses apart by three months. Since it triggers the immune system and those clots are found in the lungs hence why people can not breath. I think that one dose is better than 2 doses. But I wonder if the fact that this vaccine must go through three steps to get to mrna could be a factor. I just know those I know here older people like myself most have had the Pfizer and have done extremely well. There has to be a connection in the process of getting to the mrna that causes the clotting. And this is the least expensive vaccine? Also there is a link in the article about some being produced in India did not read it though. But today in California a new variant was found the Indian variant? Phillipa

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 18:27:55

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 4, 2021, at 18:05:57

I mean, the way I think of it is...

It is important that people not crap all over others work and so on... Go running off to complain.

But I haven't done that. I was honest with them to their faces. I was even honest with their superiors. I exhausted internal complaints resolution. With Waikato, I was blown off by the VC before I complained externally. When I complained externally I complained to the Ombudsman. I complained to politicians (parliament). I complained to the media.

They had every opportunity to take steps to put things right and they refused.

So...

I mean...

All those people out there who care about their health and the health of people they love...

All those people when they want to know what research they should trust... What hospital... What medication manufacturers...

If there is anything at all or it's all just a scummy scam.

You look at whistleblowers... If people see problems. If the problems are sorted so they don't need to complain.

NZ is so f*ck*ng inefficient we just bitch and whine and moan and don't do any f*ck*ng work all day.

There's nothing here.

The Ombudsman doesn't function

I think the courts...

The judges are so caught up in the idea of writing beautiful judgments they forgot timely justice was the goal or aim.

There's nothing here.

Judicial review shouldn't take several years.

There's nothing here.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:31:07

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k, posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:23:30

Link to new Indian variant. So far only one on google.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/first-confirmed-case-indian-coronavirus-variant-

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:32:06

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:31:07

It was removed? Why?

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:37:22

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:31:07

Just posted on google 5 minutes ago. Indian variant in CA.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/double-mutant-covid-19-variant-found-in-the-bay-area/2509887/

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » Phillipa

Posted by alexandra_k on April 5, 2021, at 20:54:27

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k, posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2021, at 18:23:30

I still think this 'there is a new strain worse than the old strain and old vaccinations don't work anymore!!!' is presently *wishful thinking* on behalf of the mRNA vaccination people. Because their vaccinations are better to handle quick updates. So... If the virus does evolve to require an update to the vaccine then (crudely) they win the vaccination Olympics!! Less crudely, that is a significant boon for their mechanism of delivery.


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/how-covid-19-vaccines-work.html

I can't read the link anymore... I think there was a clear statement of the different technology that the different vaccines worked on...


> Thanks chimps it is then.

Yes. It is a DNA vaccine. It goes into the DNA (but is not thought to be capable of replicating itself). The cell then transcribes it into mRNA which is translated into spike proteins that induce the body to make antibodies to the spike proteins.

> I had forgotten about the mistaken half doses being given that produced a more robust response than the original two dose vaccine.

Yes. Sometimes the significance comes later.

> I think that one dose is better than 2 doses.

I think that more frequent, weaker exposures are more likely to produce long-term immunity. But long-term immunity isn't needed if you want to give people a new shot with the new strain every year (as they really really really really do).


> But I wonder if the fact that this vaccine must go through three steps to get to mrna could be a factor.

?

> I just know those I know here older people like myself most have had the Pfizer and have done extremely well.

Oh yes. Older people have had ALL THE TYPES and done really really really really well. We are worrying about very very rare events. Very very rare. Even in the AstraZeneca one...


> There has to be a connection in the process of getting to the mrna that causes the clotting.

I don't know.

I read that it was a recombinant vaccine and recombinant vaccines need an ajudcant and those can create immune system problems... But I can't find that again to process what it meeeeeeans or if it seems plausible to me.

(Do tell me to pipe down if you feel I'm hijacking).

((Phillipa))

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k

Posted by Phillipa on April 6, 2021, at 20:35:12

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » Phillipa, posted by alexandra_k on April 5, 2021, at 20:54:27

News today. There is a risk of clots with this vaccine. The findings are going to be released tomorrow per Covid newsletter. Why those clots do form. It was hinted that birth control pills might be a contributing factor. Tomorrow going to be an update from the company. Phillipa

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 7, 2021, at 2:51:24

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k, posted by Phillipa on April 6, 2021, at 20:35:12

https://www.ebmconsult.com/articles/oral-contraceptive-clotting-factors-thrombosis-dvt-pe

it says here clots associated with birth control has to do with levels of estrogen, primarily, and that the estrogen raises the levels of clotting factors in the blood.

NZ just approved Janssen. I think it is our name for the Johnson one.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 7, 2021, at 2:53:05

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 7, 2021, at 2:51:24

that means HRT could be an issue, too.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 7, 2021, at 6:21:15

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 7, 2021, at 2:53:05

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3409

adjuvant

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 3:39:29

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 7, 2021, at 6:21:15

so one comes with risk of blood clots. another comes with risk of anaphalactic shock. both are treatable, but a pain in the *rs*, and can be fatal. both are rare...

eventually we will get to individualised medicine.

in the meantime... the winner of the best vaccine for under 60's with no history of ethylene glycol reaction gold medal goes to....

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k

Posted by Phillipa on April 8, 2021, at 9:28:30

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 3:39:29

Winner is Pfizer. Why it's now being given to those age 5-11 in clinical trial. If something is safe enough for young children it has to be pretty darn safe. Next will be babies age 6 months to age 5. Right now those from age 16 and up are getting vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. In this state no parental permission is needed. Also the J&J is being given on college campus's all over in different states. Some giving the Pfizer also. Moderna is going to begin clinical trials also for young children. In retrospect I should have gotten the Pfizer vaccine so much more protective than J&J. In the children's trial it's l00% protective. Astra Zeneca it's now admitted that clots do exist and trying to find out why. One theory is that since occurring in younger females those under some say 30 but I've read 50 also that hormones and birth control pills could be a factor. Should have more news on this with newsletter this evening. Also Dr Fauci said that the US will not need Astra Zeneca as we have three vaccines already. Good way to opt out. Phillipa

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » Phillipa

Posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 18:07:30

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k, posted by Phillipa on April 8, 2021, at 9:28:30

> Winner is Pfizer.

You think? Why not Moderna?

> If something is safe enough for young children it has to be pretty darn safe.

One would hope so. They just halted the AstraZenica trial in children.

I saw that somewhere in the US they were inviting pregnant women to become vaccinated. I don't remember which vaccine. They wanted to see if the baby would be born with immunity.

> Next will be babies age 6 months to age 5. Right now those from age 16 and up are getting vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. In this state no parental permission is needed.

Interesting. Which state?

> In retrospect I should have gotten the Pfizer vaccine so much more protective than J&J.

Huh. Why do you like Pfizer more than Moderna?

> In the children's trial it's l00% protective.


Yes, but you aren't a child.


> Astra Zeneca it's now admitted that clots do exist and trying to find out why.


Mmm. I find it... Disingenuous that they say they don't know why. I mean... I'm sure there is a lot to learn about some particular features... But I don't get the feeling they are being forthright about this, at all...

> One theory is that since occurring in younger females those under some say 30 but I've read 50 also that hormones and birth control pills could be a factor.

There are only a few people who have been affected by the clot. They werent' all women. I don't think the affected guys were on HRT (estrogen or progesterone)...

It is not a good look that different countries have limited AstraZenica in different ways. Saying that they won't use it in x age bracket anymore but it is still avaiilable to others.

I think Oxford lags... Ethically.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k

Posted by Phillipa on April 8, 2021, at 20:47:29

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » Phillipa, posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 18:07:30

South Carolina is the state no parental consent needed for vaccination at age 16 same with Moderna but that one is for 18 and over so they wouldn't need it anyway.

I feel from what others here where I live have said and on my facebook page that there are a lot more frequent side effects from Moderna than Pfizer.

Moderna is also doing trials with children they are just behind Pfizer time wise.

Every day there is something new with the vaccines here.

Astra Zeneca halted trials with children and now people will have another choice of vaccines. Moderna is their second vaccine now. Phillipa

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 21:35:52

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k, posted by Phillipa on April 8, 2021, at 20:47:29

Okay, yes.

You need to think about the base rate.

I mean to say... It might be that more people are reporting side affects from Moderna than Pfizer... But in the US I think a lot more people have had the Moderna one than the Pfizer one.

For example... Suppose 1 in 10 have side effects (with either of the vaccines). Then suppose 100 people have the Pfizer vaccine and 100,000 people have the Moderna vaccine.

Then suppose 10 people complain about Pfizer and 10,000 people complain about Moderna.

That's a lot more complaints about Moderna...

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 21:41:50

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 21:35:52

Phillipa... Given that you haven't had side-effects...

I'm kind of curious why you don't think that you picked the right vaccine -- *for you*.

Yeah.

I am feeling good about Johnson that they dumped a lot in the name of quality control. That means they are doing quality control.

I don't understand...

When I was in North Carolina one of the things I found strange was the bathroom supplies section of the Supermarket. I was surprised that the only product I had brand recognition for was Tampax.

In New Zealand 'Johnson and Johnson' is a trusted brand. They make baby powder and baby shampoo and bodywash and stuff like that. They market as being gentle and non-irritating. Etc. But I don't think 'Johnson and Johnson' has brand recognition in the Carolinas???

Here... We aren't getting 'Johnson and Johnson' vaccination. We are getting 'Janssen' vaccination as the one-dose only that doesn't need cold store. 'Janssen' isn't a brand name recognition thing at all. It's a little like 'Cussons' (with the two ss)... Cussons makes soap... But no brand recognition, really...

I am curious about why...

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k

Posted by Phillipa on April 9, 2021, at 9:07:29

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 8, 2021, at 21:41:50

J&J isn't the one most of the hospitals and doctors offices have given out. And testing on infants and children to me says it must be safe. I just question why the J&J is being used so little here. I know it's less protective but so many people are fully vaccinated and yet getting Covid. Not in the Carolinas but in the North East. There is a huge rise in Covid in NY, NY, PA, CT, RI, MA,. Why when their restrictions are still in place is it rising? I think a lot could have to do that so many with higher education and less trust of the government live there. So maybe they are not getting vaccinated? Phillipa

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 9, 2021, at 18:17:29

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k, posted by Phillipa on April 9, 2021, at 9:07:29

I found a Wiki entry on J&J and they are a NJ company. Janssen is their pharmaceuticals division. I didn't know that. Of course we have band-aid. I am not a baby powder user... But I see there were concerns about asbestos in the baby powder and they have limited some supply to the US (because the liability laws are developed there) and they may be mixed up with the Opiates thing.... mdkmdkdknfd...

> J&J isn't the one most of the hospitals and doctors offices have given out.

Yes. I read something today saying they are finding blood clots with J&J now.

I read something yesterday saying they were finding people fainting and so on with J&J in North Carolina yesterday. I thought that sounded psychosomatic. THe way some people have needle-fear responses to having blood drawn. Maybe an association, even. Fainting. Dizzyness. But hard to know. And if it happens with one particular batch...

> And testing on infants and children to me says it must be safe.

I really wish that were so. That is supposed to be the case.

I was reading yesterday about experiments / observational studies done in Auckland yesterday. Born into nutritional deprivation. I mean to say taking premature babies that aren't going to be breast fed and feeding them formula designed (best I can figure) to keep them in a state of Potassium deprivation. To see what happens. More particularly to try and induce a lifetime of lack of thriving and deprivation. Because... You know... Why wouldn't you? If you thought you could get away with it? Why not? I mean... Why else would you want to work with premature babies? Helping you, helping you, helping myself to you. It is important not to under-estimate the level or amount or degree of psychopathy out there.

The US has the most well-developed laws and systems of accountability Best I can figure. I mean... I'm sure there is more than a little aspect or element of Hollywood about it. But the ideal or ideology is there. That people are held to account.

Marc Hauser lost his Harvard monkey lab because falsification of data was happening in his lab and because he is the head of the lab he is responsible for the culture (whereby graduate students are falsifying their data for favorable findings).

Can you imagine how much pressure the vaccine developers were under to produce a vaccine that could be manufacturered quickly to save us all from the epidemic?

And they find blood clots... Bearing in mind how very very very very very very rare they are... They still think that the rewards (protection from Covid) outnumber the risks...

But it has become very politicised... Whereby governments are... Withdrawing emergency dispensation? Stopping vaccinating people. Choosing what vaccine is right for people. Instead of keeping as up to date with the stats as they can and providing the information. People should not hear 'it is completely safe' they should hear 'there is a risk of adverse effects associated with ANY medical procedure'. Maybe BEFORE they turn up for vaccination . Maybe in a separate appointment. I don't know... We need to get better at informed consent. The governments really really don't seem to like it, at all...

> I just question why the J&J is being used so little here.

Because Moderna. Moderna is Harvard, Phillipa. It's the latest and greatest cutting edge of vaccination technology. I don't quite know what is up with the branding... But I think Pfizer is their... Not quite their generic... But... Well... They want to trial the vaccine on more people than they can get it to with Moderna manufacturing alone... Pfizer is also American. But there's some kind of partnership with Europe. To get it into the European market. They needed countries to cough up a bit, too, with the cost of development.

And they (unspecified) are trying to help the development of health systems all around the world. Development of cold-chain storage. Motivate that. It's infra-structure needed for science research and future developments of Medicines.

> I know it's less protective

Yes, I saw that yesterday. Quite protective against severe (around 80 per cent) but a bit less protective against mild forms. Maybe (but they don't know) you can still transmit to the virus if you have a mild form (e.g., with coughs and sneezes).

> but so many people are fully vaccinated and yet getting Covid.

It takes some time for the immune response to develop so the person is protected. People don't seem to understand that. It isn't a silver bullet. You have the vaccine and it takes, I don't know... More than a week, I think, for your body to have developed a response that will protect you. Then, most of them require a booster shot after 2 weeks. To help your body keep around a number of antibodies / antibody producing cells so that you can mount a response quickly if you are exposed to the virus next time.

People aren't fully protected until a couple weeks after the second dose, I think.

So... It's a really risky time. Once people have a vaccination they think they are immediately immune and they stop doing the things that were protecting them before.

I predicted that people would transmit the virus more when they (wrongly) believed themselves to be immune a short time after they had been vaccinated. I think that's reasonable to believe.

So that could explain the huge increase in the North East. As people have one shot (or two) and feel invulnerable. Also.... Catching Covid AFTER you have been vaccinated... Is more likely (statistically) than getting a blood clot.

I think there are pockets of high density immigrants forced to huddle in the cold. They dont have bank accounts, drivers lisences, medicare, medicaid. They aren't going to be getting vaccinations -- are they?

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?

Posted by alexandra_k on April 9, 2021, at 18:47:57

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 9, 2021, at 18:17:29

I shouldn't have said Moderna was Harvard.

I don't quite understand... But glimmers...

The Bay Area was quite the place to go for tech start-ups. Silicon valley. Lots of start-up companies from graduates of the schools there, or whatever.

I think the East Cost is (or is trying to be) that for Biotechnology. Pharmaceuticals. The Ivy Leagues Schools over there... The graduates. Something to do when you finish school with your fancy advanced studies in biotechnology engineering or whatever. Statistics. Whatever... Companies.

ANd the companies are traded...

And people are supposed to (ideally) invest in a diverse portfolio of companies. Which distributes the risk. Because you get a range... From small start-ups with an idea that might work out (but likely not). But they good people, doing good work, and they need time and space... And they can work for other people for a time on something more likely to pan out with slower progressive progress... A less risky venture... And they can have freedom to start-up a new idea again...

And some kind of a... System... Like that. To try and have some kind of a balance between steady progress and giving people freedom to find / discover / get working some of the more revolutionary things.

And it's done in these start-ups or post University environment.

We don't have that in NZ. NASA said something teh other day about how it's like NZ expects to go from the industrial age (and we aren't there, yet, we are still based on agriculture exploiting the natural environment) to the virtual age without going througg the information age.

And we don't have control over our data. We don't have the skills to keep it and learn from it. To store it. Manipulate it. Etc.

What that means is our ideas are stolen. We don't have the infrastructure to do anything with them.

They are stolen before the copyrights or patents come through. We don't have intellectual property laws anyway. We don't enforce the laws we do. Nothign can grow here.

 

Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria? » alexandra_k

Posted by Phillipa on April 9, 2021, at 21:43:14

In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 9, 2021, at 18:17:29

I don't know about the immigrants. But I read today that Moderna is a company only 10 years old. Yes the baby powder there are lawsuits for ovarian cancer in females if the used the baby powder that's been ongoing for years here now. I do still feel Pfizer is the better of the three vaccines. I just sense it. And it's two weeks after second dose of both Moderna and Pfizer for immunity. But I have I think a site got off one of my RN doctor newsletters that gives the link and all the reported side effects from the vaccines, ages of people, sex, where they live, what the reactions they are reporting was. I will see if in my brower for you to glance over. Phillipa

https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=CAT&EVENTS=ON&VAX=COVID19


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