LAST WEEK'S SPEAKER
Bob began his presentation by reviewing the history of the COVID19 pandemic in Australia - from when it was first diagnosed in Australia, various outbreaks and management of the pandemic, and the situation at present where vaccines have recently become available and we are seeing a level of vaccine hesitancy in the population
His presentation dealt with
- History of Vaccination
- How Do We Know They Work and are Safe?
- What’s Different about Various COVID vaccinations?
- Vaccine Hesitancy
- What’s on the Horizon
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One of the reasons for COVID vaccine hesitancy has been distrust of the remarkable speed with which several types of vaccines have been developed.
This has however, been made possible as a result of a combination of factors which include
- accumulated expertise over the years
- experience of SARS Epidemic 2003 which led to Research (in coronaviruses)
- advances in Genome Testing
- concurrent Phases in testing
- Lab research
- Animal studies
- Human Clinical trials
- Phase 1 – few dozen healthy adults – establish is safe and induces immune response
- Phase 2 - 100’s volunteers – include specific sub groups – check for immune response & side effects
- Phase 3 – 1000’s people test for disease prevention , safety and side effects
- New Technologies
- Focus Financial / Political Encouragement
- Active Pandemic to Test On
Bob also addressed concerns re the risk of blood clots associated with the Astra Zeneca Vaccine.
There is a clear link between the development of clots (Cerebral Venous Thrombosis- CVT) and the AZ vaccine.
The risk of developing CVT is between1:160,000 and 1:250,000, but lower for those aged under 50.
The risk of death is 1;800,000, though this too is reducing as a result of improved methods of treatment have emerged.
In the presence of rapidly mutating viruses of varying degrees of virulence,
Can we really afford Not to Get The Jab?