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Will the "Corona Virus" turn into a worldwide epidemic or fizzle out?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 49.3%

  • No

    Votes: 9 12.0%

  • Bigger than SARS, but not worldwide epidemic (Black Death/bubonic plague)

    Votes: 25 33.3%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Total voters
    75
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mullokintyre said:
With two years to prepare for this, one would assume that the WA health dept is well top of things, with lots of plans and health protocols etc to cope with the increase in cases.
Mick
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They have had ramping and full hospitals for the last two years, with no covid, when I broke my leg in November even though I was a private patient I was taken to Royal Perth as everywhere else was full.
The good thing is none of the surgery, after surgery rehab and equipment, follow up appointments with the surgeon, has cost a brass razoo.
Magic I pay $5k private health and when I had knee and hip replacements I was thousands out of pocket each time and had to buy my own rehab gear crutches etc.
Go public nothing, not a zack and more equipment than you can poke a stick at.
Now all I have to do is convince the wife, that just because we can afford private health doesn't mean we should, that will never happen the wife refuses to be a bludger. ?
 
moXJO said:
At least they got to see how it went in the other states.
Nsw is basically back to normal.
The media doesn't know what to report on now. There's only so many times you can say "Ukraine is being invaded by Russia".
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When Glady's replacement called it, didn't the media predict 10's of thousands in hospital and people dying in the streets.
 
And now for some good news.
From ABC NEWS
The latest breakthrough in COVID vaccines isn't using cutting edge technology or a radical new approach to stop the global spread of disease.
Instead, a small team of researchers in the US have gone back to basics, with one key difference: their vaccine is patent-free.
It means any drug maker can use the recipe freely to reproduce the vaccine, without any payment or complex licensing arrangements.
Microbiologist Maria Bottazzi, her colleague Peter Hotez and their team at the Texas Children's Hospital's Center for Vaccine Development last month unveiled Corbevax, "the world's COVID-19 vaccine", and doctors say it could be a game changer.
Corbevax is a protein subunit vaccine, a tried and tested method that stimulates an immune response by directly delivering bits of the virus the vaccine is designed to protect against.

Dr Bottazzi and Dr Hotez's team used yeast to "brew" their own COVID-19 spike proteins, which the coronavirus uses to infiltrate healthy cells to replicate and further assault the human body.
The vaccine teaches the human body to recognise the protein so it's better prepared if the real virus invades.
Novavax uses similar technology, whereas mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna teach the body to grow COVID-19 spike proteins on its own.

Protein subunit vaccines have been used to fight other viruses like hepatitis B.

Dr Bottazzi and her team have previously used the technology to produce vaccine candidates for SARS and MERS.

"You should never forget that sometimes you have an answer right in front of your nose," Dr Bottazzi told the ABC.

"The fact they may be conventional — some people call them old, some people call them boring — that doesn't mean that they do not work.

"We knew from many years of dealing with coronaviruses that the spike protein is one of the weakest links within the virus."

Managing a small team meant the process took longer than it would in the large pharmaceutical companies.

But clinical trials in India have shown the efficacy of their vaccine against the Alpha and Delta strains is on par with the big brands. Trials are still underway to see how Corbevax holds up against Omicron.

Using yeast to make the protein also meant the vaccine was "a bit vegan", Dr Bottazzi said, and a halal version of the vaccine is being trialled in Indonesia.
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Now watch and wait for the Big Pharma industry to kill it off.
Mick
 
mullokintyre said:
WA cases jumped up by 645 from todays figures.
Thats a blowout, so they have lost control of the pandemic (assuming that they ever did have control).
The sandgropers are in for a spot of bother, lucky they only have 5 in hospital. none in ICU or on Ventilators.
Mick
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Vax rates are high so hopefully hospital rates stay low, I think when the numbers were in the 20,s the state gov said they wouldn't be able to stop this out break.

Talking to the local dentist the other day and like most of those businesses in close contact to people he was saying the good times are over.
 
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And the NPC left call the protesters crazy!
Maybe they have a point
 
moXJO said:
I like how WA opens up once everyone is about to get it. Because science.
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Allow me to make a very small correction to your post...

"bEcAuSe sCiEnCe.”

In fact at least a quarter of the people I've come in contact with in the last 3 or 4 days have some sort of lurgy. Nothing more than nods and winks exchanged (apart from perhaps the lurgy ?)

Hayvever? Cold? Beer Bug?
 
IFocus said:
Vax rates are high so hopefully hospital rates stay low, I think when the numbers were in the 20,s the state gov said they wouldn't be able to stop this out break.

Talking to the local dentist the other day and like most of those businesses in close contact to people he was saying the good times are over.
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Don't quote me on this, you may have a better ear to the ground. But a little birdie told me, a lot of staff at our local have resigned.

On a more holistic W.A note, there is a bad outbreak in our most vunerable communities, one recently happened in Esperance, now one in the North.
www.abc.net.au

Plan unveiled to keep health staff, police at work as WA records 1,000 new COVID cases for first time

Close contact rules are relaxed for police and health staff to keep them at work as another 1,043 COVID-19 cases emerge in Western Australia, with the Chief Health Officer warning authorities are "probably not capturing everyone" who is infected.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
sptrawler said:
Don't quote me on this, you may have a better ear to the ground. But a little birdie told me, a lot of staff at our local have resigned.

On a more holistic W.A note, there is a bad outbreak in our most vunerable communities, one recently happened in Esperance, now one in the North.
www.abc.net.au

Plan unveiled to keep health staff, police at work as WA records 1,000 new COVID cases for first time

Close contact rules are relaxed for police and health staff to keep them at work as another 1,043 COVID-19 cases emerge in Western Australia, with the Chief Health Officer warning authorities are "probably not capturing everyone" who is infected.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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Know of only one who didn't want to get vaxed everyone else is still employed as far as I know.

Its was the young mining guys up in arms a month or so ago haven't seen anyone since (no surf) so not sure where that all went.
 
IFocus said:
Know of only one who didn't want to get vaxed everyone else is still employed as far as I know.

Its was the young mining guys up in arms a month or so ago haven't seen anyone since (no surf) so not sure where that all went.
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Only heard it this morning, so time will tell, but my last two physio appointments for the broken leg have been changed to a phone call.
 
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