Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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India declares 'Delta plus' a Covid-19 variant of concern
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-says-new-covid-variant-is-a-concern-india-declares-delta-plus-a-variant-of
Delta not enough, now there is Delta plus ... -
emoh\" post_id=\"2027808\" time=\"1624407363\" user_id=\"10618:
Graduating students given the extra help/guidance/supplementary/remedial/consultation before school starts?[/quote]Yup, I'm guessing, students sitting for Olevel papers?, cos the school sent us early dismissal notice for 06 July (MT LC)
I think it will proceed. The Term 3 re-opening is already staggered so that not the entire school will go back 1st week.zac's mum\" post_id=\"2027807\" time=\"1624406799\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2027807 time=1624406799 user_id=53606][quote=\"sky minecrafter\" post_id=2027794 time=1624381117 user_id=130531]
Hi Mks!
(1) I doubt there are changes - my teens just received their schedules (after school trainings for some school event-stuff, etcetera) for Term 3 first week
(2) Most schoolmates are already vaccinated (the first Pfizer dose), so less worries bah
Ytd I brought DS out for a long-awaited dine-in ramen lunch, saw no less than 10 students in uniform along our drive there (and also in the mall). Got secondary school as well as primary school kids. Was thinking did they go back for projects? CCA? Supp class? Can’t be student care right, hanging out at lunch time.[/quote] -
MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"2027819\" time=\"1624412960\" user_id=\"43981:
sky minecrafter\" post_id=\"2027794\" time=\"1624381117\" user_id=\"130531:[quote=\"sky minecrafter\" post_id=2027794 time=1624381117 user_id=130531]
Sky, I m not sure..I keep reminding dds next week start going to school but in a corner of my heart I m hoping for it esp for the primary. Even tho it makes dd become less disciplined or whatever.. all other things to me seem less important.
If only vaccination can solve the problem..Vaccination may open up to easier movement between countries..that is something to look forward to though. I feel that I m ok to live with the virus just hope for higher protection to all levels of people. Hope scientists/med people are able to come out with more and better solutions soon..My dd hopes for an under-12 covid vaccine to be available soon in Singapore. Other than high risk activities, we pretty much adapt, learn to live with covid; so she chooses in-person tuition classes over hybrids/ online-ones -
starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2027596\" time=\"1624156389\" user_id=\"14025:
Below 12 = children
Below age 12: kids?raysusan\" post_id=\"2027595\" time=\"1624153778\" user_id=\"1304:
https://news.yahoo.com/vaccine-experts-having-second-thoughts-100022396.html
Age 13 to 18: ???
Above 19: adults?
12-18 adolescents
https://postimg.cc/vgK5g0wj -
Are you guys requiring your private tutors to swab with ART before going to your place for tuition?
Surprised my tutor WA me the ART negative result image. I didnt ask for it. In any case, we can’t even prove whose result that belongs to. LOL.
My tutor wanna take S. Not sure if you guys are asking for tutors’ vaccination status update or will that be too rude? -
sevenseals\" post_id=\"2027750\" time=\"1624351156\" user_id=\"124401:
Vaccine + treatment go hand in hand. Both vaccine + cure mfrs will have buyers, so don't you worry! You use the cure, you are also helping the shares of that pharma which developed/sells the cure to shoot up, no? :slapshead:
Pharma do not want us to use anti-viral med, as it will make their vaccine obsolete/unnecessary. When anti-viral is effective, very few people will die of covid. And there will be no fear factor and their hundreds of billion dollars vaccine revenue per year will be down the drain. They will try their very best to make every online platform censor any such news about anti-viral med from you the public.
H1N1 vaccine + Tamiflu
Chicken pox/Shingles vaccine + Zovirax
Right now, they probably are using a cocktail of antiviral drugs to treat positive cases. E.g. Remdisivir by Gilead.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-treatment-singapore-coronavirus-trials-remdesivir-12699782
Of course there's Regeneron's REGN-COV2, ''similar'' to that cocktail used by Donald Trump last year, thanks to the plasma from Singapore's recovered patients.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/how-singapore-helped-with-us-president-trumps-covid-19-treatment
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/regeneron-says-antibody-injection-drastically-175130528.html
And Singapore's working on Tychan.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-drug-singapore-company-antibody-tychan-13749540
Low mortality rate dont just happen miraculously. Somebody is paying for your 1-5 mth hospitalisation and very expensive antibodies therapy.
You have seen the no. of oximeters Temasek had shipped to India - >50,000! Those BiPAPs, Advanced Medtech ICU-grade ventilators, smart gas cylinders, etc.
The high % of UNvaccinated not dying here in Singapore is partly due to the abovementioned equipment and our national stockpile of antiviral drugs that they're using on symptomatic cases in hospitals.
So don't take everything for granted, naively thinking that Delta is actually not very lethal leh; after all, every day only 20+ cases in Singapore, so I just wait and wait for the miracle cure like a hunter waiting under a tree for his rabbit.
We're extremely lucky we're living in Singapore. If in backward India, and you still don't want to vaccinate, you may end up with either black fungus or Long Covid if you don't die. -
.zeit\" post_id=\"2027837\" time=\"1624420413\" user_id=\"171271:
Just look at the Bukit Merah view hawkers.
Are you guys requiring your private tutors to swab with ART before going to your place for tuition?
Surprised my tutor WA me the ART negative result image. I didnt ask for it. In any case, we can't even prove whose result that belongs to. LOL.
My tutor wanna take S. Not sure if you guys are asking for tutors' vaccination status update or will that be too rude?
Many of them are vaccinated with P or M but still continue to bring virus home to infect their whole families! So I guess it doesn’t really matter whether your tutor has taken P or M or S. Vaccine protects oneself but it does not seem to stop transmission. -
lee_yl\" post_id=\"2027841\" time=\"1624422783\" user_id=\"17023:
May or may not be true. Heard from relative that her colleague's family of 5+ 1 FDW. Hubby fully vaccinated got it from outside , came home to transmit to his 2 elder unvaccinated DDs, but his youngest unvaccinated DS was not infected. Wifey also fully vaccinated was also not infected. Helper not vaccinated not infected too. So 3 out of 6 pax.
Just look at the Bukit Merah view hawkers..zeit\" post_id=\"2027837\" time=\"1624420413\" user_id=\"171271:
Are you guys requiring your private tutors to swab with ART before going to your place for tuition?
Surprised my tutor WA me the ART negative result image. I didnt ask for it. In any case, we can't even prove whose result that belongs to. LOL.
My tutor wanna take S. Not sure if you guys are asking for tutors' vaccination status update or will that be too rude?
Many of them are vaccinated with P or M but still continue to bring virus home to infect their whole families! So I guess it doesn’t really matter whether your tutor has taken P or M or S. Vaccine protects oneself but it does not seem to stop transmission.
It's almost like a Russian roulette! Depends on your own risk threshold, like how you potentially could suffer from a foggy brain, fatigue, breathlessness, etc. Foggy brain for unemployed is fine. Foggy brain and tiredness for those sitting for national exams in future is no good.
Psst, IMHO, it's best to be infected so you have natural immunity and with the high level of antibodies in you, you actually don't need to be vaccinated, until 6 months later when your antibodies reduce then the govt will offer you only 1 dose.
You have not been vaccinated yet? :scratchhead: -
It makes a difference which vaccine tutor is taking, be it S or P/M. Our family members might transmit the virus to the tutor who has less antibodies! We're already eating in pairs outside since Monday. She must beware...but still better than those unvaccinated tutors.
People who are vaccinated against Covid-19 with BioNTech’s vaccine were found to have \"substantially higher\" levels of antibodies than those who received Sinovac’s jab, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday (June 19), citing a Hong Kong study.
Some who received the Sinovac vaccine might need a third booster shot as well, the newspaper said, citing lead researcher Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiologist with the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/biontech-covid-19-shots-trigger-more-antibodies-than-sinovac-report -
as of 21st Jun
~52.0% at least 1 dose
~36.1% fully vaccinated
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