The task force that coordinates the vaccination process against Covid-19 have called for all people who have not yet received their second vaccination dose to go to any vaccination centre, using the “open house” facility.
“Currently, with a slower pace of vaccination (since the majority of the population is already vaccinated) and greater availability of vaccines, the second doses can take place in a vaccination centre different from the place where the first dose was administered. Go to a centre and get vaccinated, Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective. Only together and with a sense of individual and community responsibility will it be possible to defeat this virus", say the 'task force', reminding the public that the "Open House" facility is working without restrictions on age groups or place of residence of users.
Open house schedules are available at https://covid19.min-saude.pt/casa_aberta/ .
According to the vaccination report released today by the General Directorate of Health (DGS), 83% of the population has already completed vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus and 86% – almost 8.9 million people – already have at least one dose of the vaccine.
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THE UK’s chief of the defence staff General Sir Nick Carter has said the secretive 77th Brigade of the British Army is involved in countering coronavirus misinformation online.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18398012.defence-chief-says-77th-brigade-countering-covid-misinformation/
1. I know I will never change the trolls opinions, but I believe it is important to prevent other people believing these lies.
2. Whilst I agree with most (if not all) of the Portugal Resident article, there is a difference between what is legal (which is what the author - as a judge - is railing against) and what are sensible health precautions to take - and this article should NOT be used as an excuse for irresponsible / selfish (or naive or just plain stupid) individuals to put themselves and others at risk by not getting vaccinated.
https://www.portugalresident.com/lisbon-appeal-court-judge-blasts-off-over-portugals-sanitary-apartheid/
When you say that you have a 99.95% chance of surviving Covid, that is:
A) Factually incorrect - The actual figure is c. 4.8m in 235m https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ - so the chances of surviving Covid are actually c. 98% not 99.95%.
B) Factually incorrect - the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved by FDA.
C) Ignores that pregnant women are at greater risk of dying from Covid (FDA) and that over 200,000 have received the vaccine without adverse effects (FDA)
D) Ignores the long term consequences of Covid on the mother and foetus - Wikipedia suggests that c. 14% of Covid infections have long-term symptoms (excluding death - which is pretty long-term)
D) Ignores risks to foetus - a small study (of 108 pregnant women who got CV19 https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/aogs.13867 ) had 2 foetal deaths - another 2%.
Steve, When you post factually incorrect scare stories you are either too stupid to check before you post or are deliberately trying to increase the impact of Covid for some reason. Which is it?
Wrong again Steve. Suppose you are dying - we know 100% that you are dying, no possible mistakes. But there is an experimental drug which is so new and experimental that no one has any idea whether it will work. But suppose that there is a 50% chance of it working, then there is 100% chance of some significant side effects. On your basis, you would expect doctors to not give you the drug under any circumstance and you will definitely die. Which just goes to prove that Darwin's theory is right.
Paul you are confusing medical treatment with a vaccination. Vaccines are administered mainly to healthy people to prevent people catching a disease and transmitting it to others, which by the way this so called vaccine does neither. If you're already ill you are not given a vaccine, you are given a treatment. If it is a new disease then yes doctors will try new drugs or existing drugs to try and save you. A healthy mother to be with 99.95% of surviving Covid should not be given an injection where you don't know the effects on her unborn child. "Primum non nocere" - first do no harm is one the first things medical students learn.
Another thing Paul, this injection has not been approved in any country yet. It has been given emergency authorisation, because there isn't any long term safety data. Long term meaning 5-10 years.
Wrong again Steve. Suppose you are dying - we know 100% that you are dying, no possible mistakes. But there is an experimental drug which is so new and experimental that no one has any idea whether it will work. But suppose that there is a 50% chance of it working, then there is 100% chance of some significant side effects. On your basis, you would expect doctors to not give you the drug under any circumstance and you will definitely die. Which just goes to prove that Darwin's theory is right.
Exactly. Before they have been administered to humans, they are experimental. Indeed, even after they have been administered to a clinical trial, they remain experimental until the results have been assessed. But once the results have been assessed and approval given by regulatory authorities, they are no longer experimental by definition.
But now that each vaccine has been administered to literally hundreds of millions of people, and the results tracked, it is clear beyond all scientific doubt that these vaccines save lives and reduce the impact of Covid if your don't die, and any drug which has proven to save lives like this is not experimental either. Steve, you can call it whatever you like mate - personal freedom of speech - but calling it something doesn't make it so.
Well, we do understand the long-term consequences of dying from Covid. And we also understand many of the long-term consequences of Covid if you don't die, the so called long-covid.
As I point out again and again, when assessing whether it is a good idea to give or receive a Covid jab, you need to weigh up the risks of having the jab against those of not having the jab. To say "It's experimental so I am not having it" is literally irrational.
Quoting Paul:What are the risks of birth abnormalities in an unborn child of a mother that has been vaccinated? Nobody knows. Do you want me to explain why again???
If you don't know the risks then you don't don't give the drug. Primum non nocere.
They are not experimental. Vaccines and mRNA are well understood. And as I keep pointing out you need to compare risks of NOT having the vaccine to the unborn child to those of them having the vaccine.
If the risks of catching Covid and dying or having birth abnormalities from Covid are higher than the estimated risks from the vaccine, then you give the vaccine regardless as the least worse alternative.