I’ll pass on this one.
A jab aimed at slashing hospital admissions and deaths among the elderly due to a cold-causing bug has been approved for use in the UK.
Regulators have given the green light to British pharma giant GSK’s jab against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), making it the first to be approved for the over-60s.
RSV is a very common infection that leads to an estimated 175,000 GP visits, 14,000 hospitalisations and 8,000 deaths among the cohort every year.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved the jab, branded by Arexvy, after trial results showed it cut the risk of severe illness by 94 per cent.
Officials told MailOnline the vaccine will not be rolled out this winter and are yet to confirm who will be eligible and how it the vaccine will be dished out.
But the Government’s vaccines advisors have already said they would back a one-off injection to over-75s, followed by a single dose to Brits as they turn 75.
It’s a cold. Sometimes, when you are elderly and weakened by age, it will develop into pneumonia and carry you off. We have to die of something and respiratory failure is a fairly common cause.
RSV is a very common virus that can cause a runny nose, cough, sneezing, fever and wheezing and usually gets better within two weeks.
I’ll take my chances on that. I have never bothered my GP when I get a cold, which is pretty rare anyway. I’m certainly not going to bother with a vaccine.
Bastards will probably throw an mRNA Frankenstein shot in as well, just because.
Phuq that for a game of Dominos.
That seems to be what they are doing with the flu jabs. This one is pretty pointless, so not worth the bother.
There is a pneumonia jab, one off, available to the elderly, don’t know why they want another. Been available for years but not that publishised.
You can see why it hasn’t been publicised: it’s a one-off.
Not so much dollar in that
Not a hope in hell, if the medical profession (with rare exceptions) told me it was daylight outside i’d have to nip outside to check, the once absolute trust in our medics has gone and it won’t return.
The days of Nurse Barker Bishops Stortford childrens ward circa 1965 where i spent 3 months aged 10 and absolutely fell in love with her, are gone.
The numbers are all too round.
I would rather buy a second hand car from these chancers than have them squirt some juju juice into my system.
Fool me once…..
Who wants to live forever? If you could guarantee that you would always be fit and active and always have your wits about you that might be fine. But that isn’t the reality of life.
When my mum passed, aged 83, I couldn’t help thinking that she had decided that it was time to go. She had attended an awful lot of funerals over the past few years, her best friend that she had known since her teens was gone. She wouldn’t take her meds, she acted as if she was confused about them, even when we divided them into little containers with the dates and times written on but I couldn’t help feeling that it was a deliberate ploy to sort of let nature take its course if it was time to go. We are all going to be in that position one day, no matter how many life extending drugs are developed.
My mother usually gets every jab they recommend. After Covid she has stated she isn’t getting anything else unless it is life or death in a hospital and even then she says it depends on what is up as she is concerned about quality of life.
A recombinant protein plus GSKs own adjuvent.