The Reading Covid-19 Outbreak Engagement Board meets on line at 2pm on Friday 26th February 2021. Please contact Nicky.Simpson@reading.gov.uk to take part.
South Reading Patient Voice will meet online at 6pm on Wed, 17th February 2021. You can join via this link There will be time for a short discussion on the NHS reforms as well as local news.
Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board meets online at 2pm on Friday 22nd January 2021. Please apply to nicky.simpson@reading.gov.uk if you want to observe the meeting or have a question.
The US Food and Drug Administration has released information on the BoiNtech/Pfizer coronavirus vaccine ahead of its meeting to consider emergency certification in the USA. It is noteworthy that the definition of a "case" is quite different from that used for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine so that the claimed efficacies are not comparable. For the BioNtech/Pfizer vaccine a swab is taken when an acute respiratory illness develops. For the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine weekly swabs are taken.