Coronovirus in the Philippines

The Oxford AZ which we all got is little better.

The point of the Oxford AZ and the Chinese vaccines is to prevent serious illness and death they won't necessarily completely suppress all symptoms nor completely suppress transmission although it would appear that suppression down to mild illness is enough to prevent most transmission.

This quote below references one study from Brazil that is quoting similar levels of protection from moderate to severe disease as the Oxford AZ vaccine, but as they point out you need more people vaccinated to completely protect a population when the individual efficacy is low and low efficacy equates to a difficulty in measuring efficacy itself as they have differing reports from different countries in regards to the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines.

China's Sinovac Vaccine Goes To Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey. Will It Work? : Goats and Soda : NPR

I checked the KLM destination entry requirements for the Philippines for Christmas it came back and told me that basically I should not book, they just say do not board, but really that means you would have to be insane to buy a ticket just now.

I think Christmas is cancelled for me now, I can see things being a lot worse in the Philippines by December rather than better, mostly due to the slow vaccination program and the anti-vax resistance in the population including in my own family.

WHO advises that ivermectin only be used to treat COVID-19 within clinical trials

I watched a doctor talking about Ivermectin the other week, I'm not sure I think the WHO is right that it should only be used in clinical trials at this time.

Still highly restricted.