Good News From UK
April 23, 2021 at 11:11 am 2 comments
The Telegraph reports that Britain is no longer in a pandemic, as new data showed the vaccination programme is reducing symptomatic Covid infections by up to 90 per cent.
In the first large real-world study of the impact of vaccination on the general population, researchers found that the rollout is having a major impact on cutting both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.
Sarah Walker, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at Oxford and Chief Investigator on the Office for National Statistics Covid-19 Infection Survey, said that Britain had ‘moved from a pandemic to an endemic situation’ where the virus is circulating at a low, largely controllable level in the community.
The new research, based on throat swabs from 373,402 people between December 1 last year and April 3, found three weeks after one dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca jab, symptomatic infections fell by 74 per cent and infections without symptoms by 57 per cent.
By two doses, asymptomatic infections were down 70 per cent and symptomatic by 90 per cent.
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EXTRA TIME 
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RapidHammer | May 7, 2021 at 5:07 am
I have had my jab at last! Now with my GP having got doses of the vaccine I have had my first jab with AstraZeneca on 5 May!
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RapidHammer | May 9, 2021 at 5:18 am
My wife will get hers on Mother’s Day! She „voted“ for AstraZeneca and will be vaccinated in the “Austria Center”, a conference center in Vienna, and not in Lower Austria as we had planned earlier, because suddenly on Friday night new slots for under-60s have been made available, and she wanted it to get it done as soon as possible.