England is to begin giving out doses of the Moderna jab – the third vaccine introduced in its national rollout – as everyone over the age of 50 is offered their first dose of a vaccine. Bookings are also opening online for those aged 45-49 to get vaccinated. Wales was the first British country to begin rolling out the Moderna jab last week and has since reached the milestone of vaccinating half of its population. Seventeen million doses of the vaccine have been bought by the Government, which is enough to vaccinate about 8.5 million people. BBC News has the story.
England is giving out its first doses of the Moderna jab, the third Covid vaccine in the nation’s rollout.
It will be available at 21 sites, including the Madejski Stadium in Reading and the Sheffield Arena. …
More than 32 million people in the UK have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and nearly 7.7 million have had both doses.
Prof Stephen Powis, Medical Director of NHS England, said having “a third jab in our armoury” marked another “milestone” in the vaccine programme.
He said more sites would offer the Moderna vaccine as further supplies arrive. …
The Moderna vaccine uses a similar innovative RNA technology to the Pfizer jab, but it is stored at lower temperatures of -20C like a normal freezer, compared to -70C for the Pfizer vaccine. It can also be stored for 30 days at normal fridge temperatures. …
Trial results suggested efficacy against the disease was 94.1%, and vaccine efficacy against severe Covid-19 was 100%.
More than 30,000 people in the US took part in the trial, from a wide range of age groups and ethnic backgrounds.
The vaccine will be used alongside Pfizer’s Covid jab as an alternative to that produced by AstraZeneca for people below the age of 30 (possibly even those aged 30-39) because of the AZ jab’s link to blood clots.
The NHS said the Moderna and Pfizer jabs would be used for under-30s who were due to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine but whose appointments were rearranged.
Last week, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation – which advises the UK Government on vaccines – recommended that under-30s be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, out of the “utmost caution” following reports of blood clots in about four in one million cases.
The NHS said the majority of appointments in April were for second doses, but first dose appointments were still available for people in the initial priority groups who have not yet been immunised – including the over-50s, people who are clinically vulnerable or those working in health or social care.
The vaccine will, however, only be offered as an alternative where possible.
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I will only be reading the news roundup from now on. These headline articles are very pro-everything. ‘ BBC news’ report is worth reading in full’ . Do me a favour LS 😂
Indeed. I’m not going to repeat everything I said yesterday below the line on the “Vaccines reach 50% of people in Wales” post but it still applies to this one.
The BBC report worth reading in full is a standard LS one liner, a sick joke. As well as being pro-Covid vaccines, LS is pro-BBC, a very dangerous combination.
Am I getting it totally wrong? I read everything posted on here with my cynical hat on and assume that many of the news roundup articles are only included due to the irony? Would it make it easier if they concluded many of the posts with the phrase ‘yeah right… rolling eyes emoji’ ?
I do wish that the site would use the term “vaccine” or “innoculation” and not jab . A jab is what you’d get if a stabbed you in the arm with a dart.
I actually don’t care what terminology they use. What bothers me is the fact they’re promoting this campaign. Even the MSM report more on the dangerous side effects of the ‘vaccine’.
Yes but it is neither a vaccine nor inoculation and jab is more accurate.
Looking at the coronavirus dashboard, vaccine uptake has crashed. Those that were scared out of their mind have taken their first dose. The only increase is in 2nd doses.
TPTB would say that this is all about a lack of vaccine supply. That was the story they told us, coincidentally at exactly the same time European safety authorities starting restricting the AZ vaccine use in the under 65s.
Perhaps the site should be renamed Vaccine Philiacs.
This constant attention to ‘vaccines’ would be all well and good if they were leading us out of lockdown but they are not so what is the point of harping on about them.
Fauci himself was quoted yesterday that earing together indoors was still not safe even if you have been fully vaccinated.
It’s almost as if they have been told to present a “balanced” position on vaccines, as if this was an OFCOM regulated news source, rather than just a campaigning website.
Go Britain.
The vaccine rollout and the take up by the great majority of rational Brits shows that we can still act in concert when required. If only they could purge the latent EU ‘precautionary principle’ infection from parliament and the civil service.
Lions led by donkeys yet again.
77th Brigade>?
Twat? Both? LMFAO
tbh -the vulnerable, the old and the scared will take up the vaccine. In reality it is not needed for anyone fit and well and under 60.
Well said!
For fuck’s sake : WHY is a leaky, unproved vaccine with minute risk reduction and notable side effects suitable for those OVER 60???
Stop parroting the party line and get your brain in gear!
It is not need by anyone of any age, especially if they are fit and healthy. I am coming up to 70yrs and there is no way anything will induce me to have any of the current gene therapies.
For the vulnerable, the immunocompromised it is particularly dangerous, it may kill them. As for flu vaccination enthusiasts, it’s their decision. There is this cliché that it’s their decision and l respect it. Well, truth be told, l don’t respect daft decisions.
What rational person would choose to be vaccinated with an experimental medicine with unknown risks attached, against a disease which involves a tiny risk to the health of the overwhelming majority of people?
It’s a rhetorical question. You don’t need to answer. I know you are just a troll.
About 29 million vaccinations so far, the data from which shows no material issues – as the lack of queues at the mortuaries signify.
The data is against you. Significantly against you. And rational people follow the data, not their fi-fis.
Every anti-vaxxer on here is no better than the mask fanatics. Two cheeks of the same backside. Both sets of people a complete PITA that just cannot be reasoned with.
From the government’s own website, there have been more than 700 deaths to date, reported via the highly underused and unpublicised Yellow Card scheme. Probably a significant underestimate of the reality. You can do the arithmetic – that’s one death in every 41,400 vaccinations.
My chances of death from COVID, as a healthy man in his early 50s, are approximately 1 in 10,000
So my chances of death from COVID are only four times more than death from a medical intervention WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT ME.
If you are a troll, you’re not a very good one. I hope you’re not paid for by the taxpayer because if you are, I want my money back.
you are twisting things there. The site clearly states:
“Part of our continuous analysis includes an evaluation of natural death rates over time, to determine if any specific trends or patterns are occurring that might indicate a vaccine safety concern. Based on age-stratified all-cause mortality in England and Wales taken from the Office for National Statistics death registrations, several thousand deaths are expected to have occurred, naturally, within 7 days of the many millions of doses of vaccines administered so far, mostly in the elderly.
The MHRA has received 302 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 472 reports for the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine and 12 where the brand of vaccine was unspecified. The majority of these reports were in elderly people or people with underlying illness. Usage of the AstraZeneca has increased rapidly and as such, so has reporting of fatal events with a temporal association with vaccination however, this does not indicate a link between vaccination and the fatalities reported. Review of individual reports and patterns of reporting does not suggest the vaccine played a role in the death.“
They would say that, wouldn’t they?
https://coronavirus-yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/datasummary
You are twisting things way out of kilter.
The Government site https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting clearly states:
“Based on age-stratified all-cause mortality in England and Wales taken from the Office for National Statistics death registrations, several thousand deaths are expected to have occurred, naturally, within 7 days of the many millions of doses of vaccines administered so far, mostly in the elderly.
The MHRA has received 302 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 472 reports for the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine and 12 where the brand of vaccine was unspecified. The majority of these reports were in elderly people or people with underlying illness. Usage of the AstraZeneca has increased rapidly and as such, so has reporting of fatal events with a temporal association with vaccination however, this does not indicate a link between vaccination and the fatalities reported. Review of individual reports and patterns of reporting does not suggest the vaccine played a role in the death.“
Why should I take any vaccine for a virus that in my cohort has a 99.98 survival rate? I’d wager it’s even higher tbh.
And that’s if you’re infected. You need to multiply that probability by the probability of catching it.
Currently 0.2% of tests in the UK are positive. And of course some of those are false positives.
There’s not a lot of virus out there.
I bet this person works for an organisation like the BBC and posts here in their breaks between sipping Pimms and lemonade.
Wrong. Perhaps time to tune the antenna on the tinfoil hat?
Drat!
Double-drat! Got me – I confess, I’m a full-blown conspiracy nut who believes it’s wrong to be coerced into taking a dangerous drug for a normal seasonal virus (for which I probably already have a natural immunity to).
I think it was around August last year when I predicted this site would steadily move towards encouraging the deplorables to accept the new normal. No more are they reporting Dr Yeadon’s views about the ‘vaccine’ or the people who brought the Great Barrington Declaration, and no where to be seen is a focus on the prosecutions being brought against those leading the march towards totalitarianism.
Indeed, it’s hard to believe they used to report on the The Great Reset right back at the beginning of this madness.
LS fits the controlled opposition definition perfectly.
I don’t think they are controlled opposition, they are just too nostalgic for those days when they used to be “connected” individuals respected by people in high places within the conservative (small “c”) establishment.
Circa August last year, many people shared your view -and they had good reason to do so because LS was far more focussed on being an opposition. Controlled opposition works by being a strong opponent from the outset, then steadily they wean their accumulated supporters into being more accepting of the government’s targets.
It’s only fair to point out that LS actually did report an interview by Martin Kulldorff last month, but it’s also fair to say I was quite surprised to see it at the time, having noticed the decline in LS reporting the views of such people.
I think we sometimes overreact; fairly understandable in the circumstances of over a year’s imprisonment of the innocent and egregious overreach by government. But the irritated reactions here about the surfeit of vaccine-friendly articles that implicitly repeat the government line are wholly justified. Anyone who actually still thinks the ‘vaccines’ are good news is incredibly naive when we are in a time of no significant infection and the government, despite ‘promises’ and prior bollocks is still imprisoning the nation. That contradiction is surely the issue for any Covid-rational site (Let’s abandon the term ‘sceptics/sceptical’, and be positive) I have yet to see any article dealing with the ‘vaccine success’ in a truly forensic, scientific way. I’ve often banged on about the key positive characteristic for any medicine : the absolute risk reduction. There is a lot of ignorance about this statistic – even most of the medical profession don’t understand the concept, yet it is a vital measure. But articles on ‘vaccines’ never get anywhere near the crucial information that this provides. Bluntly – it’s practically far more important in assessing the snake-oil than the risk factor of getting blood clots from the stuff. But if you can quote a… Read more »
Then please write the article no matter how brief!
Totally correct! The absolute figures are approx 1%. There are no trial results that show a higher figure.
Anyone wanting to read a well constructed article about this should read the Iain Davis link below.
https://in-this-together.com/vaccine-trials/
I’m not going to have a prick at any price. In fact I think you’d have to be one to want one.
Those that have been injected with any of the Covid “vaccines” cannot have given informed consent. The lucky ones will die soon after injection or when they encounter a a coronavirus of some kind at some future date. The unlucky will die a slow miserable autoimmune death over the coming months and years.
Ludicrous missions creep.
Rush out a vaccine – broadly untested – especially for long term issues – get emergency licensing saying you are going to jab the hyper vulnerable – ie very old
Change your mind and give it to everyone including kids ‘it must be safe because its licensed’
Excellent conclusion.You have captured everyting in three sentences
“but it is stored at lower temperatures of -20C like a normal freezer, compared to -70C for the Pfizer vaccine.” -20c is a higher temperature than -70c
I read something this week, which suggested that Moderna actually stands for ‘modify RNA’. Does anyone have any data to back this up?
If it is correct, then everything that is happening to us is in plain sight – unfortunately not enough of us are paying attention.
No data, but I read something to that effect although I can’t remember where. I think it was probably ‘modernise’ RNA because the technology was originally being developed as a treatment for cancer.