South African Covid-19 News and Discussions

[reactor_sa]

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say:

KZN police station evacuated after cop tests positive for Covid-19

The Folweni police station will operate from a mobile facility while sanitation takes place over the weekend.

www.news24.com

The same hospital that 9 nurses tested positive, and had to lockdown and disinfect yesterday...

Didn't the article say the hospital closed their ICU after the 3 people that died tested positive?

 

[Jings]

Does the BCG vaccine work against Covid-19?

Can SA's decades-old vaccine regime work in our favour against Covid-19?

It’s too soon to say for sure, but a new study by scientists at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) could indicate a major score for SA in the fight against Covid-19

www.timeslive.co.za

 

[Gordon_R]

Does the BCG vaccine work against Covid-19?

Can SA's decades-old vaccine regime work in our favour against Covid-19?

It’s too soon to say for sure, but a new study by scientists at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) could indicate a major score for SA in the fight against Covid-19

www.timeslive.co.za

Maybe.

Google: world ranking of academic institutions "New York Institute of Technology"

country rank 529
world rank 1447

So yeah, highly credible source right there... /sarcasm

 

[Polymathic]

 

[Jings]

Maybe.

Google: world ranking of academic institutions "New York Institute of Technology"


So yeah, highly credible source right there... /sarcasm

If the trials demonstrate the vaccine is effective we'll be smiling.

 

[Gordon_R]

If the trials demonstrate the vaccine is effective we'll be smiling.

True, but South Africa doesn't have to do any trials, because 80-90% of the population was vaccinated at birth...

Worth reading a little of the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine

BCG vaccine is also in Phase 3 trials (as of March 2020) of being studied to prevent COVID-19 in health care workers in Australia and Netherlands. Neither country practices routine BCG vaccination.

 

[MiW]

True, but South Africa doesn't have to do any trials, because 80-90% of the population was vaccinated at birth...

Worth reading a little of the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine

Someone pointed that it wears of in about 15 years

 

[Willie Trombone]

Seems the wildlife is enjoying the lockdown. Unless you're an anchovy that is.

 

[Jings]

True, but South Africa doesn't have to do any trials, because 80-90% of the population was vaccinated at birth...

Worth reading a little of the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCG_vaccine

I bet you didn't even read the whole article.

 

[sand_man]

Does the BCG vaccine work against Covid-19?

Can SA's decades-old vaccine regime work in our favour against Covid-19?

It’s too soon to say for sure, but a new study by scientists at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) could indicate a major score for SA in the fight against Covid-19

www.timeslive.co.za

Yeah, I posted this in the Corona virus good news thread and some twat came and shot me down!!! Oh look, he's here too, doing the same... Grumpy old man...Corona's coming for you grumpy old man....

 

[saffakanera]

Seems the wildlife is enjoying the lockdown. Unless you're an anchovy that is.

As a member of the South African Anchovy Rights association, this is completely outrageous! Bastard birds, shoot them!

 

[sand_man]

I bet you didn't even read the whole article.

Yeah, why bother, it's a bad news article promulgated by unreliable sources such as the WHO and the NYIT... /sarcasm

 

[dualmeister]

Good thing I'm not 50 yet.... yet

 

[sand_man]

Good thing I'm not 50 yet.... yet View attachment 812559

Bit ambiguous. Undiagnosed? Many people, with all of the above, that medicate and keep the conditions within acceptable parameters.

 

[Jings]

Yeah, why bother, it's a bad news article promulgated by unreliable sources such as the WHO and the NYIT... /sarcasm

It actually makes sense when you compare the countries which included BCG vaccine in the vaccination package to the Covid-19 mortalities on the world map.

Map suggests TB vaccine may help prevent Covid-19

The map below from the medical journal Plos Medicine displays BCG vaccination policy by country. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis. Yellow: The count…

asiatimes.com

 

[Gordon_R]

Someone pointed that it wears of in about 15 years

Read the article before spouting BS:

The duration of protection of BCG is not clearly known. In those studies showing a protective effect, the data are inconsistent. The MRC study showed protection waned to 59% after 15 years and to zero after 20 years; however, a study looking at Native Americans immunized in the 1930s found evidence of protection even 60 years after immunization, with only a slight waning in efficacy.

I bet you didn't even read the whole article.

I can't help it if you are a slow reader. /sarcasm

Yeah, I posted this in the Corona virus good news thread and some twat came and shot me down!!! Oh look, he's here too, doing the same... Grumpy old man...Corona's coming for you grumpy old man....

Ad-hominem attacks don't add much to scientific arguments.

 

[MiW]

Read the article before spouting BS:

So you just confirmed what I said. BS really? I posted the first article in the subject in the other thread, and I DID read it days ago... 'excuse me' for not reading it again 3 days later.Get a life instead of posting stupid stuff confirming my post.

If the vaccine was protecting for 60 years SA wouldn't have any TB left

 

[Geoff.D]

If the vaccine was protecting for 60 years SA wouldn't have any TB left

And again, it is NOT about total prevention, that requires a vaccine. It is about what role BCG could possibly be playing in reducing the severity of Covid 19, or improving the body's chance of developing anti-bodies sooner and even could mean why more people in SA are asymptotic.

 

[JayM]

UK death rate is very high, and they've had universal BCG vaccination since 1953.

 

[daveza]

UK death rate is very high, and they've had universal BCG vaccination since 1953.

The UK today.