WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one' | World news | The Guardian
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Experts tell end of year media briefing that virus is likely to become endemic and the world will have to learn to live with it

World Health Organization experts have warned that even though the coronavirus pandemic has been very severe, it is “not necessarily the big one”, and that the world will have to learn to live with Covid-19.

The “destiny” of the virus is to become endemic, even as vaccines begin to be rolled out in the US and UK, says Professor David Heymann, the chair of the WHO’s strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards.

“The world has hoped for herd immunity, that somehow transmission would be decreased if enough persons were immune,” he told the WHO’s final media briefing for 2020.


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But Heymann, who is also an epidemiologist with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the concept of herd immunity was misunderstood.

“It appears the destiny of SARS-CoV-2 [Covid-19] is to become endemic, as have four other human coronaviruses, and that it will continue to mutate as it reproduces in human cells, especially in areas of more intense admission.

“Fortunately, we have tools to save lives, and these in combination with good public health will permit us to learn to live with Covid-19.”

The head of the WHO emergencies program, Dr Mike Ryan, said: “The likely scenario is the virus will become another endemic virus that will remain somewhat of a threat, but a very low-level threat in the context of an effective global vaccination program.

“It remains to be seen how well the vaccines are taken up, how close we get to a coverage level that might allow us the opportunity to go for elimination,” he said. “The existence of a vaccine, even at high efficacy, is no guarantee of eliminating or eradicating an infectious disease. That is a very high bar for us to be able to get over.”

That was why the first goal of the vaccine was to save lives and protect the vulnerable, Ryan said. “And then we will deal with the moonshot of potentially being able to eliminate or eradicate this virus.”

Ryan warned that the next pandemic may be more severe. “This pandemic has been very severe … it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one,” he said.

“This is a wake-up call. We are learning, now, how to do things better: science, logistics, training and governance, how to communicate better. But the planet is fragile.

“We live in an increasingly complex global society. These threats will continue. If there is one thing we need to take from this pandemic, with all of the tragedy and loss, is we need to get our act together. We need to honour those we’ve lost by getting better at what we do every day.”

WHO chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan told the briefing that being vaccinated against the virus did not mean public health measures such as social distancing would be able to be stopped in future.

The first role of the vaccine would be to prevent symptomatic disease, severe disease and deaths, she said. But whether the vaccines would also reduce the number of infections or prevent people from passing on the virus remains to be seen.

“I don’t believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it’s going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore being able to pass it on,” Swaminathan said. “So I think we need to assume that people who have been vaccinated also need to take the same precautions.”

The WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the end of the year was a time to reflect on the toll the pandemic had taken, but also the progress made. He said the year ahead would see new setbacks and new challenges.

“For example, new variants of Covid-19, and helping people who are tired of the pandemic continue to combat it,” he said.

“New ground has been broken, not least with the extraordinary cooperation between the private and public sector in this pandemic. And in recent weeks, safe and effective vaccine rollout has started in a number countries, which is an incredible scientific achievement.

“This is fantastic, but WHO will not rest until those in need everywhere have access to the new vaccines and are protected.”

// Takže opět měli pravdu "konspirační teoretici"? Stále s větší intenzitou se přiznává, že celé to zaklínání čekáním na vakcínu, vlastně nebyla pravda - že ani vakcína tenhle nový světový normál neukončí.

Woman who developed narcolepsy after swine flu jab had 'no quality of life' | UK news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/13/woman-narcolepsy-swine-flu-jab-no-quality-life

Family of 23-year-old Katie Clack, who took her own life after struggling with the terrible effects of her incurable sleep disorder, vows to fight for justice

A 23-year-old nursery assistant who developed narcolepsy after receiving a swine flu vaccine took her own life last year, telling her family that living with the incurable sleep disorder had become unbearable.

Katie Clack’s death raises fresh questions about the government’s long refusal to compensate about 80 people who developed narcolepsy as a rare side-effect of the vaccine, on the basis that the condition is not serious enough to merit payouts.

In an interview with the Guardian, Katie’s sister, Emma Sutton, 25, said that narcolepsy had turned her sister’s life into a terrible struggle, describing how she was transformed from an energetic young woman who had just discovered her passion working with children, to someone who was heavily dependent on her family and crippled by mental health problems.

“We cannot believe she would have decided to take her own life had the balance of her mind not been disturbed,” said Sutton. “We feel she was let down by the defective vaccine, which caused her narcolepsy and by the insufficient intervention and support, which ultimately led to this tragedy.”

In a note, written on the day that she died, Katie urged her family to pursue her legal case, saying that she had been left with “no quality of life”.

“She said she wanted us to pursue claims because the narcolepsy caused her depression and led to a tumble of suicidal thoughts,” said Sutton. “She said: ‘It’s very important to me that you pursue this.’”

An inquest, due to take place this summer, will consider whether Clack received adequate medical care and the role her illness may have played in her death.

The nursery worker, from Peterborough, received the Pandemrix jab, made by GlaxoSmithKline, when she was 18 as part of a national vaccination scheme during the 2009-10 swine flu pandemic. Clack was in a high priority group for immunisation because she worked with young children – a job in which she excelled after finding school difficult due to her dyslexia.

“We were all so proud of her. She really loved children,” said Sutton, describing how her sister would turn up at her house to play with her two young daughters. “The toys were out, the paint was out, within a matter of minutes it was like a hurricane. They loved it.”

While the swine flu outbreak never reached the proportions that were initially feared, scientists believe that the vaccine, which was given to about 6 million people in Britain, caused narcolepsy in a tiny fraction of patients.

We feel she was let down by the defective vaccine, which caused her narcolepsy and by the insufficient ... support
Emma Sutton

The government accepts this link, but has so far argued those affected do not meet the threshold for the Department for Work and Pensions’ vaccine compensation scheme, which automatically awards a £120,000 lump sum to anyone with “severe and permanent” disabilities.

A few weeks after receiving the vaccine, Clack began feeling overwhelming daytime sleepiness, a defining symptom of narcolepsy, and was sleeping 18 or 19 hours each day by the time she was diagnosed a year later.

“Sometimes she’d leave work at 3pm and wouldn’t get home until 7pm because she’d fall asleep on the bus and go around Peterborough several times,” said Sutton. “She was so shy she would never ask the bus driver: ‘Can you wake me up?’ People used to take pictures of her on their phones and were really nasty, not knowing, obviously. They’d think she was drunk.”

Clack also began suffering from cataplexy attacks, the total loss of muscle control during sudden bursts of emotion, such as happiness, which caused her to collapse without warning. She suffered night terrors, imagining that she was surrounded by giant spiders, and sleep paralysis, the temporary inability to move on waking up.

Although she continued to live in her own flat, Clack stopped taking baths after falling asleep with the taps running and flooding her neighbours’ flat, cooking meals was too risky, she lost a series of jobs and gained a large amount weight – a common side-effect of narcolepsy.

“She said: ‘You can’t imagine my life. I have no life.’ That rings in my head a lot,” Sutton recalled.

In 2013, she began suffering psychotic episodes and said she was hearing voices, possibly linked to the high dose of the stimulant drug, modafinil, that she was prescribed to help her stay awake. She was admitted to hospital several times, spending her 21st birthday on a psychiatric ward.

Sutton said the government’s rejection of compensation claims from about 80 other patients was incomprehensible and welcomed a landmark ruling last month by the upper tribunal court ordering damages to be paid to a 12-year-old boy. “If they lived with one of these people for a day, they’d change their mind. It just seems crazy.”

While alive, Clack was one of a group pursuing an ongoing civil action against GlaxoSmithKline, which manufactured the vaccine. The costs of any financial settlement are likely to be met by the taxpayer because of an indemnity signed between the government and the pharmaceutical giant.

Separately, Clack’s family applied posthumously to the DWP’s Vaccine Damages Scheme in October (she did not apply while alive), but are yet to receive a decision. The government wrote to the family in June to say it was seeking legal advice on the case. “We just feel let down,” said Sutton. “My mum just really wants someone to say they are accountable.”

Dr Mike Fitzpatrick, a former London GP who has spent much of his career promoting vaccines, said the medical case of the family was compelling. “I don’t understand why DWP doesn’t agree to provide compensation,” he said. “The crucial thing to maintain public trust is to provide compensation on the very rare occasion that there’s an adverse effect. It’s a vital principle to uphold here. The personal stories are catastrophic.”

A Department of Health official said: “Narcolepsy is a distressing illness and our deepest sympathies go to Katie Clack’s family and friends following her tragic death. Pandemrix vaccine was used to prevent serious illness and deaths during the swine flu pandemic in 2009-10. At the time, the possible association with narcolepsy was not known. This remains under scientific investigation.

“We have agreed to fund the treatment of claimants with Xyrem, and are working with both their lawyers and the vaccine manufacturer to consider the personal injury claims as quickly as possible. We cannot comment on any individual case.”

A GSK spokesman said: “We are actively researching the observed association between Pandemrix and narcolepsy and the interaction this vaccine might have had with other risk factors in those affected.

“We’re also continuing to support ongoing work from other experts and organisations investigating reported cases of this condition and we hope these efforts will enable us to provide more answers in the future. We take the safety of patients who entrust their health in our vaccines and medicines very seriously.”

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hodim to sem cele:

The extent to which healthcare workers are refusing the vaccine is unclear, but reports of lower-than-expected participation rates are emerging around the country, raising concerns for epidemiologists who say the public health implications could be disastrous.

A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 29% of healthcare workers were “vaccine hesitant,” a figure slightly higher than the percentage of the general population, 27%.

“Even the name, Operation Warp Speed, draws some concern for people about the rush to push it through,” said Dr. Medell Briggs-Malonson, an emergency medicine physician at UCLA Health who has received the vaccine. Still, she urged her colleagues to do the same.

“It’s certainly disappointing,” said Sal Rosselli, the president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers. “But it’s not shocking, given what the federal administration has done over the past 10 months. ... Trust science. It’s about science, and reality, and what’s right.”

The consequences are potentially dire: If too few people are vaccinated, the pandemic will stretch on indefinitely, leading to future surges, excessive strain on the healthcare system and ongoing economic fallout.

“Our ability as a society to get back to a higher level of functioning depends on having as many people protected as possible,” said Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch.

Respondents to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey who said they probably wouldn’t get the vaccine said they worried about side effects; they lacked trust in the government to ensure the vaccines were safe; they had concerns about the role of politics in the development of the vaccines; or they believed the dangers of COVID-19 had been exaggerated.

In online forums, some healthcare workers throughout the country have expressed frustration over going first — a status some have associated with experimentation.

Nicholas Ruiz, an office assistant at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, Calif., said healthcare workers wrestled with the same doubts, fears and misinformation about the disease as the public. Though he interacts with nurses who treat COVID-19 patients, he’s not taking it and knows many others who aren’t.

“I feel like the perception of the public with healthcare workers is incorrect. They might think we’re all informed of all of this. They might think that because we work in this environment,” Ruiz said. “But I know there’s a lot of people that have the same mentality as the public where they’re still afraid of getting it.”

In Fresno County, interim Public Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra said Tuesday that some “people who are qualified to get the vaccine are not ready to get it.” Such healthcare workers, including those who are pregnant or want to become pregnant, have been hesitant as questions about the long-term effects arise.

To persuade reluctant workers, many hospitals are using instructional videos and interactive webinars showing staff getting vaccinated. At an Orange County hospital, Anthony Wilkinson, an intensive care nurse who cares for coronavirus patients, said he had co-workers who had “lost faith in big pharma and even the CDC.”

Wilkinson made a Facebook video about the science behind the vaccine and was updating friends and family on his progress after receiving it. “People are scared for me,” he said. “I can understand why. It’s new and no one wants to be the first.”

When can I get the COVID-19 vaccine?

The first allocations of the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech arrived last week in Tehama County, home to 65,000 people.

Dr. Richard Wickenheiser, the Tehama County health officer, said 495 doses were first made available to healthcare workers at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff, but the hospital “basically returned 200 back to us.”

“They gave us those vaccines back, and we quickly started moving it out and using it,” Wickenheiser said. “I don’t want to be accused of having it in the freezer while we wait for people to make up their mind.”

At Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, about 10% of the nursing staff has opted out of the vaccine, said spokeswoman Zoe Harris.

As of Tuesday, UCLA Health had vaccinated 7,300 personnel out of more than 37,000, though it wasn’t clear how many people had been offered the vaccine because the hospital didn’t release that information. Officials acknowledged that “there may be vaccine hesitancy in our workforce.”

“We are not asking personnel to decide immediately whether to receive the vaccine. We want to give those offered vaccines adequate time to make a decision, and we hope that personnel will continue to understand that the benefits of vaccination clearly outweigh the risks,” the hospital said in a statement.

The uncertainty is shared among staff inside nursing homes, which account for roughly 35% of the more than 25,000 COVID-19 deaths in California.

But about a quarter of the staffers have voiced reluctance to take the vaccine, said nursing home administrators and employees interviewed by The Times.

“They’re scared of the side effects, they don’t know what is going to happen or if it will really protect them,” said a licensed vocational nurse at a Los Angeles nursing home who asked that her name not be used because she was not authorized to speak to the media. “It has become so political.”

She was reluctant to take the vaccine herself until the 95-bed facility she works in, which had been virus-free for months, was hit by the rapid community spread. “We have 16 new cases in just three days,” she said. “It’s so fast, we don’t even know how it happens.”

“Reluctance? No question, there’s a lot of reluctance,” said Dr. Michael Wasserman, medical director of the Eisenberg Village nursing home in Reseda and past president of the California Assn. of Long Term Care Medicine, which represents doctors, nurses and others working in nursing homes.

“Because there was no transparency or clarity from the federal government with the rollout, the states and the counties often didn’t know what was happening until the last minute,” he said. “That makes the vaccine reluctance even worse.”

UCLA nurse Eunice Lee prepares a syringe of a Covid-19 vaccine for health care workers at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
A hospital gave a COVID-19 vaccine to a Disney employee. It may be permitted under state guidance

It’s unclear what happens when a hospital ends up with extra doses. State guidance allows hospitals to offer the vaccine to lower-priority people if frontline workers have already been offered the vaccine.

In Tehama County, unused doses at hospitals are being distributed to the next group of people who are eligible: staff and residents of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.

Meanwhile, the county’s health department is fielding daily phone calls about access, said Wickenheiser, the Tehama County health officer, adding, “The public is asking on a daily basis: ‘When are we going to get it?’”

Some healthcare workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/...fornia/story/2020-12-31/healthcare-workers-refuse-covid-19-vaccine-access

They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it.

At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of L.A. County’s frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health officials.

So many frontline workers in Riverside County have refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that hospital and public officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses, Public Health Director Kim Saruwatari said.

The vaccine doubts swirling among healthcare workers across the country come as a surprise to researchers, who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data backing the vaccines.

// clanky jako tento kompletne decimuji ten narativ, ze je to antivaxxers vs veda resp. o nerespektu ke zdravotnikum v prvni linii, protoze oni tedy nerespektuji sami sebe?

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