[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[Kinky Gerbil]

I would class this as good news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55669736

 

[Chicken Run]

Extract from the DT this morning :

Every adult in Britain will be vaccinated by the end of June, senior Government figures hope, as they grow increasingly optimistic they will be able to accelerate the rollout.

The Telegraph can reveal Whitehall sources believe this target could now realistically be achieved as they plan to vaccinate four to five million people a week within months.

A further two vaccines in the pipeline, from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, could help Britain speed up the process to vaccinate all 54 million adults. A source said: "All over-18s by June – yes." They added: "It is delivery, delivery, delivery.”

While senior Government figures are now privately working to this target, the Department of Health – which said it hoped to have vaccinated "tens of millions" of Britons by April – are reluctant to publicly acknowledge a deadline.

Separately, the chief executive of Britain's new £158 million Government vaccine factory in Oxfordshire told The Telegraph it will be able to vaccinate the entire nation against dangerous new Covid strains within four months when it opens in full by the end of the year.

.....and this :

Officials have been encouraged by data from Israel that has shown a big fall in serious illness and mortality in the over-60s by 25 per cent after two weeks of vaccinating 20 per cent of the target population.

The hope in Government is that in the UK, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 will fall sharply in early-March, two weeks after all of the top four priority groups have been vaccinated.


One source said: "The beauty of this is if we have vaccinated the most vulnerable then actually we are in great place because the rest of the economy can begin to open up.

“We still have to be careful – we still have to socially distance but at least we can go back to normal and know there are no more lockdowns coming.”

Writing in The Telegraph, Mark Harper, chairman of the Coronavirus Recovery Group of Tory MPs, calls for a "clear roadmap" to lift restrictions by March 8. He says: "There cannot be any more excuses and there's no need to wait until Easter. We need a clear roadmap to all our freedoms, economy and health prospects being fully restored."

Boris Johnson is due to review the rules governing the third national lockdown this week.

The UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine – 10 million more than planned – but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring. Britain has also already struck a deal for 30 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, with the option of ordering 22 million more, but it has yet to be approved by regulators.

Dr Matthew Duchars, of the Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Oxfordshire, said: “We’ll be able to make 70 million doses within a four to five month period, enough for everyone in the country, when we open late this year.

“New Covid variants are absolutely part of the thinking. We probably will need to make seasonal vaccine variants because there may well be mutations in the virus, as well as vaccines for other diseases. You never know what’s coming next.”

Currently under construction at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, the VMIC was first conceived in 2018 and originally planned to open in 2022.

When the Covid pandemic struck, the Government pumped a further £131 million into the not-for-profit company to bring the project forward by a year.j

Could I ask what with all the millions of Oxford Doses, plus Pfizer plus Moderna & now J & J totalling circa 147m doses why the need for that many?


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[RossyG]

Could I ask what with all the millions of Oxford Doses, plus Pfizer plus Moderna & now J & J totalling circa 147m doses why the need for that many?

Two each for a population of 70 million plus? (This figure includes under 18s, of course).

 

[The Wizard]

324000 vaccine jabs yesterday
13500 per hour
225 per minute
3 per second

You have to say it’s very impressive and only increasing, also confirmed that over half of the 80+ age group have received their first jabs.

 

[atomised]

324000 vaccine jabs yesterday
13500 per hour
225 per minute
3 per second

You have to say it’s very impressive and only increasing, also confirmed that over half of the 80+ age group have received their first jabs.

I was worried there would be a big drop off at weekends. Worth noting real figure higher for UK as Scotland don't report at weekends

 

[dazzer6666]

Could I ask what with all the millions of Oxford Doses, plus Pfizer plus Moderna & now J & J totalling circa 147m doses why the need for that many?


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Couple of things :

- two doses per person so around 150m needed
- government played a bit of a blinder hedging their bets on approval and supply timelines and availability so have massively over-ordered in total from multiple developers (sure someone will be critical of that at some point as a waste of money but for now it looks like a brilliant plan)
- may be that we will be administering 3 or 4 different types as they are released (particularly if there are any supply issues)

 

[dazzer6666]

324000 vaccine jabs yesterday
13500 per hour
225 per minute
3 per second

You have to say it’s very impressive and only increasing, also confirmed that over half of the 80+ age group have received their first jabs.

It was 324k Friday.......official website hasn’t been updated with yesterday’s stats yet ?

 

[LamieRobertson]

Couple of things :

- two doses per person so around 150m needed
- government played a bit of a blinder hedging their bets on approval and supply timelines and availability so have massively over-ordered in total from multiple developers (sure someone will be critical of that at some point as a waste of money but for now it looks like a brilliant plan)
- may be that we will be administering 3 or 4 different types as they are released (particularly if there are any supply issues)

Just a question how do u get to 150 million?
Surely below a certain age no vaccination
J&J one close to authorisation one dose
67 million time two 134 million

 

[dsr-burnley]

If we have too many, there are plenty of worthy but impoverished countries who could use the spares.

 

[Bob!]

324000 vaccine jabs yesterday
13500 per hour
225 per minute
3 per second

You have to say it’s very impressive and only increasing, also confirmed that over half of the 80+ age group have received their first jabs.

277k yesterday, so little bit of a drop off.
but 5 x 320k and 2 x 275k is over the 3m per week.
With more vaccination centres coming on, hopefully the 3m will be easily beaten each week

 

[dazzer6666]

Just a question how do u get to 150 million?
Surely below a certain age no vaccination
J&J one close to authorisation one dose
67 million time two 134 million

True - forgot the kids won’t have it (yet anyway)
Doesn’t matter re the rest as we’ve ordered way over in total anyway [emoji2369]

 

[dazzer6666]

277k yesterday, so little bit of a drop off.
but 5 x 320k and 2 x 275k is over the 3m per week.
With more vaccination centres coming on, hopefully the 3m will be easily beaten each week

UK (inc NI but not Wales/Scotland - presumably their data missing yesterday and today will be reported tomorrow - will amount to a further 25-30k per day) total yesterday reported as 300k :

-298k first dose
-2.5k second dose

Positive cases DOWN again - 38,598 (approx half the peak total this wave - from 5th Jan - for comparison)

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

 

[dazzer6666]

277k yesterday, so little bit of a drop off.
but 5 x 320k and 2 x 275k is over the 3m per week.
With more vaccination centres coming on, hopefully the 3m will be easily beaten each week

Might want to check your sums there [emoji6]

 

[Bob!]

Might want to check your sums there [emoji6]

oops!
over the 2m per week.
Obviously.

 

[Fungus]

UK (inc NI but not Wales/Scotland - presumably their data missing yesterday and today will be reported tomorrow - will amount to a further 25-30k per day) total yesterday reported as 300k :

-298k first dose
-2.5k second dose

Positive cases DOWN again - 38,598 (approx half the peak total this wave - from 5th Jan - for comparison)

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

Cases not only down, but down despite another big increase in testing.

 

[The Wizard]

Cases seem to be quite dramatically reducing, which of course is to be expected with restrictions, but it does make you wonder how long it will be till the tipping point, there’s been 3m confirmed positive COVID since the beginning, the number is widely expected to be around 6/7x the confirmed cases, adding that in with the people vaccinated that could be circa 25 million people who have been exposed?

It will be interesting in the coming weeks to see how steeply the new cases and then hospitalisations drop off.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

My 94 year old grandma had the vaccine yesterday.

She said it took only 50 minutes to go from her house on the outskirts of Guildford to the vaccine centre in town and back home again.

She said the organisation and constant sanitation of the chairs was fantastic.

 

[dazzer6666]

My 94 year old grandma had the vaccine yesterday.

She said it took only 50 minutes to go from her house on the outskirts of Guildford to the vaccine centre in town and back home again.

She said the organisation and constant sanitation of the chairs was fantastic.

Just spoke to my neighbour....all a bit sad as his wife died this week, but he went and had his today and said the same (Haywards Heath).

 

[dazzer6666]

Cases seem to be quite dramatically reducing, which of course is to be expected with restrictions, but it does make you wonder how long it will be till the tipping point, there’s been 3m confirmed positive COVID since the beginning, the number is widely expected to be around 6/7x the confirmed cases, adding that in with the people vaccinated that could be circa 25 million people who have been exposed?

It will be interesting in the coming weeks to see how steeply the new cases and then hospitalisations drop off.

Yep....think the combination of lockdown and vaccination of the vulnerable should see the hospitalisation numbers drop off quite steeply when it starts. May not be too long from that point now - I’d take a punt on early/mid March at this point

 

[LamieRobertson]

7.5% of the UK’s adult population has now received their first vaccine dose.

https://twitter.com/coronavirusgoo1/status/1350856711175856129?s=21