It is way too late to switch Olympic cities. They’ll either hold some version in Tokyo this year or cancel and move onto the ‘24 summer games (well the ‘22 games first, but that’s another issue)
Maybe the Olympics just end up a relic of the before times, who knows.
Shows you how much I know about Canada. All I know about BC is that there is Vancouver and Vancouver Island which is where Victoria is. That’s it. The rest is a giant black box.
I think you mean giant white box.
Yeah, I guess now that you mention it, that would be more accurate.
British Columbia is 64% of Euro descent. (unless “white” meant covered in snow and ice - but then most of BC isn’t that cold either)
If patents are not the problem then why don’t the pharmaceutical companies step up and say “For every dose we sell, we are donating another dose to a less fortunate country”. None of that coming from any of them.
And agree, if the patents are not the problem why is so much energy being put in to defend them and protect them in this specific instance.
It’s already been delayed a year. Next year is Winter Olympics somewhere.
My cynical view is just cancel it who cares, but I know the athletes dedicate their lives to it.
But not like athletes have not been forced to miss them for reasons not to do with them before.
It just seems dumb to have them and it may be another year before it even makes sense. At that point they should have just been totally canceled.
Like most of Canada, the urban population is ethnically diverse but the rest of the province is extremely Caucasian. BC may be 60%+ Euro, but Vancouver and it’s suburbs are actually minority white. About half the people in BC live in and around Vancouver.
Jesus, thought this sentence was going to end “because i had my second shot 9 days ago and they didn’t want me over till second shot +14.” That at least would have been logical.
I meant snow and ice. And I also meant Canada as a whole, not just BC. That said it wasn’t meant to be too serious a comment anyway.
Most adults under the age of 40 will be given an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine due to a link with rare blood clots.
The UK’s medicines safety regulator says there have been 242 clotting cases and 49 deaths, with 28.5 million doses of the vaccine administered.
It came as the country’s health officials registered a single-dose version of the Sputnik V vaccine on Thursday, dubbed Sputnik Light.
Public health experts have recommended one version of the Indian coronavirus variant be made a “variant of concern” in the UK, the BBC has been told.
Public Health England (PHE) is tracking B.1.617.2 which appears to spread more quickly than two other identified subtypes of the Indian variant.
Scientists also believe it is at least as transmissible as the variant detected in Kent last year.
A spokesman for PHE said it would not comment on leaked data.
Because they can’t make the other dose. All the doses they can make are accounted for.
The issue isn’t poor countries can’t afford the vaccines. The issue is rich countries are buying all the supply.
Too late for me - I’ve had both AZs - but good news for the young 'uns.
We faded having to get Russian vaccinations by a few votes and a handful of judges.
Looks like the fully vaccinated are gonna be (almost) returning to normal in the Czech Republic in 2-3 weeks.
If you have a certificate of vaccination and it has been two weeks since your second shot, then you’ll almost be able to go business as usual. However, you’ll still have to wear a mask in most indoor places.
I’m stoked about this but this is total bullshit for some because the vaccine has not been made available to everyone in the country yet. So far it’s 50+ years old and those in certain professions or have comorbid diseases. That means the vaccine is probably available to a bit less than half the country. In total, less than 10% of the population has been fully vaccinated and a significant portion haven’t been 2 weeks removed from their second shot.