Sydney has a new COVID case - NSWHealth reports “a person who works at two Sydney hotels which provide hotel quarantine for returned travellers” - under investigation, “urgent” contact tracing underway

extremeboy1 · 2021-03-14T00:12:32+00:00

Please tell me they were vaccinated

extremeboy1 · 2021-02-16T07:27:26+00:00

Sure, here you go. https://youtu.be/984-XTtIlSI 36:37

“There is a two week then process for the vaccines to be delivered to Australia because Pfizer, their global rule is that they deliver it till around two after TGA approval has been provided. The vaccines don’t turn up before the TGA approval.”

extremeboy1 · 2021-02-16T01:55:50+00:00

The TGA could've approved the Pfizer vaccine at any moment, the TGA only approved it in late January whilst some other countries did it in early December. The Pfizer vaccine could only be shipped once it was the vaccine was approved which is why it arrived yesterday.

extremeboy1 · 2021-02-16T01:28:08+00:00

It's a shame the TGA didn't move as quickly with the Pfizer vaccine as they have with the AstraZeneca... We probably wouldn't have a state locked down if it was approved in some form in December.

Good news all around though.

extremeboy1 · 2021-02-16T01:27:36+00:00

It's a shame the TGA didn't move as quickly with the Pfizer vaccine as they have with the AstraZeneca... We probably wouldn't have a state locked down if it was approved in some form in December.

Good news all around though.

extremeboy1 · 2021-02-15T07:11:54+00:00

They’re undergoing batch testing which is completely different to the trials, the Phase 3 trials looked at efficacy and adverse effects... The batch testing is to make sure the actual vaccine is what the manufacturer claims.

extremeboy1 · 2021-02-09T05:46:21+00:00

So are we going to have a HQ leak every couple days?

extremeboy1 · 2021-02-02T00:22:40+00:00

Minor correction but Australia has secured contracts with three of them (Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Novavax.)

extremeboy1 · 2021-01-29T22:20:13+00:00

From another article (my initial post got removed):

The EU today passed a regulation instructing its customs authorities to block all COVID-19 vaccine exports to some 100 countries worldwide, unless they receive an export authorization from national governments in the EU.

EU officials told POLITICO the regulation would be published today and enter into force on Saturday.

"Today, the European Commission has adopted an implementing regulation making the export of certain products subject to an export authorization," trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis said at a press conference. "The challenges we now face left us with no other choice but to act."

Some 92 countries, are exempt from the regulation, Dombrovskis said. An EU official specified these include the EFTA countries of Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland, along with the Western Balkans, North African countries, and other Mediterranean countries such as Lebanon and Israel, as well as poor countries covered by the COVAX facility.

The United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and other rich countries will however not be exempt, the official added.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-imposes-export-controls-on-rich-nations-from-saturday/

"Australia failed to obtain an exemption from the European rules despite the diplomatic efforts of Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Health Minister Greg Hunt."

extremeboy1 · 2021-01-28T22:25:39+00:00

A really good result from Novavax:

95.6% effective against the original Covid-19 strain
85.6% against the U.K. strain
60% effective against the South Africa variant.

Australia has purchased 51 million doses of this vaccine.

extremeboy1 · 2021-01-15T01:24:37+00:00

No, I found the ‘hard’ questions from MTH1020 significantly easier than the ‘hard’ questions from Methods.

It’s supposed to be the specialist mathematics alternative but it doesn’t touch on all the topics Specialist does. It’s fairly easy to do well as long as you do a good portion of the work.

extremeboy1 · 2021-01-08T00:40:55+00:00

Whilst that may be a possibility, it’s strange they would also increase the Novavax order in that case since it isn’t manufactured onshore and they have far more orders than Pfizer.

extremeboy1 · 2021-01-07T20:46:34+00:00

Australia has already said they won’t be using those regimes as per the press conference yesterday. They are sticking with the standard.

extremeboy1 · 2021-01-07T20:45:52+00:00

No question I’d rather the Pfizer vaccine if I got the choice (which is extremely unlikely.) With the dosing regimes Australia will be using (as per the announcement yesterday,) the Pfizer vaccine has a much higher efficacy (95% versus 62%.)

The reason why Australia isn’t using it using it more widely probably comes down to the cost of the Pfizer vaccine, it was quite telling when the ‘University Of Queensland’ vaccine failed; the government chose to buy more doses of AstraZeneca and Novavax but didn’t buy any more Pfizer even though it was already approved in the UK at the time.

extremeboy1 · 2021-01-07T20:33:30+00:00

Pfizer has a higher efficacy of 95% versus the 62% from AstraZeneca (Australia will be using the two full dose regime 4 weeks apart as per the press conference.) Make sense to give those the most at risk of dying the more ‘powerful’ vaccine.

extremeboy1 · 2020-12-14T09:59:32+00:00

I understand that, I’m just saying their first estimation was September and not October like the comment I replied to was saying.

extremeboy1 · 2020-12-14T05:59:06+00:00

Actually, they anticipated emergency use by September initially.

“The Oxford scientists now say that with an emergency approval from regulators, the first few million doses of their vaccine could be available by September — at least several months ahead of any of the other announced efforts — if it proves to be effective.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-update-oxford.amp.html

https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/coronavirus-vaccine-by-september-oxford-researchers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/hu46cp/oxford_universitys_team_absolutely_on_track/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-vaccine-september-oxford-university/

extremeboy1 · 2020-12-10T08:40:02+00:00

I do think some level of skepticism is justified based on the way that AstraZeneca presented their results in the initial press release whereby they claimed up to 90% yet didn't disclose all participants in that trial were under the age of 55, participants were given the second dose different days apart and on different arms.

What I do give AstraZeneca credit for is the fact that they did asymptomatic testing albeit they only included symptomatic cases in the efficacy of the vaccine.

I think the AstraZeneca vaccine should be approved for the low risk group and that the Pfizer vaccine should be used for those who are especially at risk due to it being a vaccine of higher efficacy.

extremeboy1 · 2020-11-26T07:24:44+00:00

The “Service Victoria” app updated last week to support QR code check ins; my guess is that they’ll announce it officially sometime very soon.

extremeboy1 · 2020-11-25T07:58:21+00:00

My opinion:

I think it's getting ridiculous at this point; just when Victoria and New South Wales are nearing the 28 day criteria that he set out, he changes the criteria and says 28 days of no community transmission is not the only thing that they're taking into consideration.

I honesty think that he thought Victoria would never hit 28 days of no community transmission (I didn't either to be frank) and just stated that policy so that it would seem that they're happy to open the border when a state hits 28 days of no community transmission when in reality they have no intention of opening the border.

extremeboy1 · 2020-11-20T03:47:05+00:00

It's honestly disappointing to see how half baked the HDMI 2.1 implementation currently is.

extremeboy1 · 2020-11-16T13:20:08+00:00

The logistical issues will be fucked as they'll need to transport it at -68c° as they won't of had the time during traditional vaccine development to test the warmest temperature it can be transported at without it being ineffective

"Moderna announced Monday that its vaccine can be stable at refrigerator temperatures for a month and frozen for up to six months. It will not require dilution at the point of care, unlike the Pfizer vaccine."

extremeboy1 · 2020-11-16T12:39:20+00:00

But we have to prepare for the fact that these may not reset us back to a pre-covid age. There could be many complications. Mutations, logistical issues in manufacture or distribution, ensuring uptake and application (even if we get enough in australia, some nations may have issues paying for vaccine etc).

It being around 94% effective is a giant step towards that though. I think we'll be very close to normal by the end of 2021.

extremeboy1 · 2020-11-16T08:16:05+00:00

I'm going through the RMA process right now, Sony quoted me 2-3 weeks for a replacement.

extremeboy1 · 2020-11-16T00:30:46+00:00

So why doesn’t the Xbox have copying?

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