Probably not a whole lot seeing as this is website aimed at health professionals. 60% is hardly a resounding approval rate!

I think the speed of development of this vaccine is enough to make people want to wait and see what happens. Especially as Covid poses such a small risk to the vast majority of people.

Even recent history tells us that mass vaccinations programs can go wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...ain-in-vaccine

It's "not likely to mess up your genes" because it can't mess up genes regardless of time. It does not even enter cell nucleus for that to be possible.

So not like a flu jab? I finally got it a few days ago and nada. A bit disappointed, was wondering if my immune system puts up any good reaction and no.

It was all over the local news this week that Switzerland is not going to take the short approval route, I completely agree with Swissmedic. Proper, long and all three stages, apparently. The gov ordered over 13mil of vaccines (a mix of them).

The medical opinions from CZ that I've heard were for not getting sick and gettin' vaxed (the sickness doesn't have to be benign, nobody knows what it does to us long term), while voices of general public do not trust the pace that is has been put together. The CZ news informed already over 2 months ago that China and Russia have been vaxing already for a while. Czechs might only get the vax in March, looks like. I do not think that they are too mad about the delay, anyways. I am split - want to see family (quarantines complicate as well), don't want crappy vax.

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That would probably be my attitude if I was younger. As one of those higher risk people I'm happy to have the vaccine when offered.

Agreed. I'm not high risk and I'm not often around high-risk folks, so I can wait my turn.

IATA is working on it:
https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr/2020-11-23-01/

They are definitely rushing it, they’re doing as many trials as they can in the time available and have fulfilled the minimum requirements but in an ideal world we would be waiting longer.

That’s not to say that I think they are unsafe, just not as rigorously tested as I’d like them to be.

Hi AbFab

I don’t know anyone who’s “suffered from Covid-19”, neither does anyone that I know. I hope that this stays that way.

It’s really a choice whether anyone wants to realize that this is not the same as polio, yellow fever etc. (I do have Swiss family through a previous partner that was subjected to a lifetime of disability through the polio vaccine).

This exactly, BM.

No. Let all politicians take it first, before the general population. Let's test their confidence and belief in a super fast-tracked vaccine. They can be the guinea pigs.

Well that question is easily answered:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/24/e...ntl/index.html

What was the name of the Tory UK politician on insisted on being filmed feeding his kids beefburgers in the middle of the CJD crisis?

1) Vaccination mandatory or not?
Yes if one wants to travel and/or is working in healthcare or any service that is in contact with high risk groups. Otherwise no

2) Should hospitals and nursing homes requires all patients and staff to be vaccinated?
Yes, no question

3) How will insurance premiums change for those who don't vaccinate?
All Anti-Vaxxers should pay double or triple

4) Will proof of vaccination be required to travel?
Should be.


So yes, I will get it once its my turn.

John Selwyn Gummer

Absolutely yes, and it should be mandatory. Or, if somebody doesn't want to vaccinate, fine, but he/she needs to stay home quarantined. I despise free-riders who would benefit from the fact that +70% of the population would have vaccinated and, therefore, eradicated the virus.

The workings of a vaccine are relatively simple, complications are highly unusual and in the worst case scenario either you catch the virus or it simply doesn't work.

Not necessarily true. You work with time, or you work with numbers. In this case, they are testing the vaccines in massive amounts of individuals in different countries and continents, it would be equally safe as testing it with fewer people over a longer period of time but now we have the possibility of convincing thousands of people to sign up for this test due to the publicity of the virus, and governments willing to allow for the mass testing in their soil in exchange for delivery contracts.

Hi ZuriRollt,

You are very fortunate. Since posting, I now know 2 more people including my next door neighbour and a 70+ year old with cancer with Covid-19...

As a relatively young and healthy person, I will take an approved and nodded at vaccine whenever it comes my way, but will not be the first in line. I am sure there are many people that deal with the public more than myself, so the vaccine should be allotted to the appropriate people first.

As a person with immediate family that work in Healthcare and Insurance for many years, many of them are dumbfounded by people's lack of cooperation and taking the situation more seriously than they have.

Everyone wants a vaccine to work!... There is no-one saying I don't want a vaccine that has the probability to work for most.

No-one I have ever talked to has said they want to keep the status-quo of 2020, well maybe Trump in other indirect and convoluted words, regardless nearly everyone in Europe will get it at some point.

It's going to happen. I have had common colds, the flu several times, broken bones, shot in war, vaccinated against D-T-P, HIB, M-M-R, MEASLES, OPV and have survived.

The appropriate vaccine will be a fighting chance to get back to normal.

No vaccine is 100%, every single one you have ever taken only has the probability to work. Fortunately in most cases that probability is rather high.

Can someone tell me what is likely to occur when someone who has been vaccinated encounters someone that is infectious, and then encounters someone who has not been vaccinated ?

Does the Virus die on contact (I suspect this is unlikely)?
Does the enhanced immune system detect the virus and mount an attack. (More likely)
Is the immunised person contagious during the (short?) period between their infection and their immune system successfully killing the virus?

For the info and data nerds, this is a concise outline of treatment protocols and the various vaccines in development. Links to clinical trials also.

https://tmsnrt.rs/36f9Ib3

Have a good weekend!

Well.

The whole grand of idea of living involves chances and probabilities.

The discontent and inability to get away from the arm-chair activism at this point sucks. Wear a mask and use common sense.

We are all praying and hoping for a vaccine that is mostly effective.

I am not a religious person and rely on science and facts.

As someone who's immediate family deals with life and death decisions literally, and the other half of the family figures a way to finance it and make insurance decisions on it, that stretch out more than into 2030... IT SUCKS.. Can anyone imagine in 50 years from now how disappointed people will be to read a text and say "all they had to do was wear a cotton mask and wash their hands?"

Just take the damn vaccine. If your Swiss Canton is offering it, probably for free or low cost, than chances are very good, you will be just fine.