[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[CHAPPERS]

Slightly off topic, but how do you embed a tweet on here please?

Click into tweet and find url. In this case the url is:

https://twitter.com/Coronavirusgoo1/status/1348598703658041344


Now copy the numbers at the end of the url. In this case:

1348598703658041344

Then wrap them with [ tweet ] and [ /tweet ] but without the spaces

 

[macbeth]

Click into tweet and find url. In this case the url is:

https://twitter.com/Coronavirusgoo1/status/1348598703658041344


Now copy the numbers at the end of the url. In this case:

1348598703658041344

Then wrap them with [ tweet ] and [ /tweet ] but without the spaces

Thank you

 

[atomised]

Matt Hancock says average of 210 thousand vaccinations per day over the weekend

 

[dazzer6666]

Matt Hancock says average of 210 thousand vaccinations per day over the weekend

Yep.....around 1.3 million in the last week (double what was done in the first 4 weeks). Over 200k on each of the last 4 days.

 

[Mellotron]

27.91m vaccinations worldwide.

 

[dazzer6666]

Seems as though the overall daily infection numbers, whilst still high, have taken on a bit of a downward trend the last 3 days ? Difficult to work out from the info but sure we were at 70k+ a few days ago, today it’s under 50k.

 

[Poojah]

Seems as though the overall daily infection numbers, whilst still high, have taken on a bit of a downward trend the last 3 days ? Difficult to work out from the info but sure we were at 70k+ a few days ago, today it’s under 50k.

I honestly don't know whether that's one of those Monday 'quirks', but looking at the official government data at the link below there's definitely the suggestion of a downward trend and with a bit of luck the makings of a (final!) peak:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases

We did see a similar pattern in December before cases began to rise again, but that was of course at a time when large swathes of the country were only under tier 2 restrictions and the remainder under tier 3. There are certainly signs that the latest lockdown is in fact working despite murmurs to the contrary, and that we may just avoid a truly 'draconian' implementation of the rules.

 

[dazzer6666]

I honestly don't know whether that's one of those Monday 'quirks', but looking at the official government data at the link below there's definitely the suggestion of a downward trend and with a bit of luck the makings of a (final!) peak:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases

We did see a similar pattern in December before cases began to rise again, but that was of course at a time when large swathes of the country were only under tier 2 restrictions and the remainder under tier 3. There are certainly signs that the latest lockdown is in fact working despite murmurs to the contrary, and that we may just avoid a truly 'draconian' implementation of the rules.

Thanks for confirming.....I did look back as well as I could and it doesn’t appear that there are weekend/Monday fluctuations in the infection rates in the same way the deaths only seem to catch up midweek. Will be watching the numbers the rest of this week with interest - if they are dropping at a decent rate that will be fabulous.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I honestly don't know whether that's one of those Monday 'quirks', but looking at the official government data at the link below there's definitely the suggestion of a downward trend and with a bit of luck the makings of a (final!) peak:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases

We did see a similar pattern in December before cases began to rise again, but that was of course at a time when large swathes of the country were only under tier 2 restrictions and the remainder under tier 3. There are certainly signs that the latest lockdown is in fact working despite murmurs to the contrary, and that we may just avoid a truly 'draconian' implementation of the rules.

Bit early to suggest latest measures are working as there is always the lag effect...whether it is or not ....I’m hoping the figure you’ve quoted and stuff quoted by those relating to the Zoe App is the start of a trend ...and as you say hopefully leading to ‘draconian’ measures not being implemented

 

[Billy the Fish]

Yep.....around 1.3 million in the last week (double what was done in the first 4 weeks). Over 200k on each of the last 4 days.

Seems as though the overall daily infection numbers, whilst still high, have taken on a bit of a downward trend the last 3 days ? Difficult to work out from the info but sure we were at 70k+ a few days ago, today it’s under 50k.

F**k yeah!!!!!!

We're on our way, we're on our way

 

[Billy the Fish]

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

Just found this website. Very good. Lots of graphs.

 

[Madafwo]

Seems as though the overall daily infection numbers, whilst still high, have taken on a bit of a downward trend the last 3 days ? Difficult to work out from the info but sure we were at 70k+ a few days ago, today it’s under 50k.

The Guardian list all their data relative to the previous week, I assume to counteract the difference in reporting methods throughout the week. It was down 12,615 compared to last Monday.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Bit early to suggest latest measures are working as there is always the lag effect...whether it is or not ....I’m hoping the figure you’ve quoted and stuff quoted by those relating to the Zoe App is the start of a trend ...and as you say hopefully leading to ‘draconian’ measures not being implemented

This may be a bit early for the lockdown effect but could be the tier 4 ( + school holidays ) we had before lockdown kicking in.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Found this interesting and very encouraging!

[Tweet]1348975137299832835[/Tweet]

 

[A1X]

Could future intranasel vaccines stop transmission?

Who nose?

 

[RossyG]

Snot for me to say.

 

[BBassic]

That news certainly isn't anything to sniff at.

 

[Norman Potting]

Found this interesting and very encouraging!

[Tweet]1348975137299832835[/Tweet]

Won't somebody think of the hamsters

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Won't somebody think of the hamsters

I immediately wondered how small a hamster's nostril must be!

 

[Surport Local Team]

Why are they just testing it on Richard Hammond!??