[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[LamieRobertson]

Another positive update...cautiously optimistic with some interesting comments over risk

https://youtu.be/v0hNR2puXOg

 

[Hotchilidog]

https://twitter.com/BBCSussex/status/1385140446540800001?s=20


Brighton and Hove on the cusp of less than 10 cases per 100k population, only 31 cases in the City at the moment. Almost eligible for the bottom category on the UK Gov Covid map

 

[dazzer6666]

More positive news on all key measures :

Infections - 2,729, rolling 7 day down 7.4%
Deaths - 18, rolling 7 day down 26.1%
Admissions - 140, rolling 7 day down 19.7%
Jabs - 117k first and 417k 2nd, cumulative 33.2m & 11.3m
In hospital - 1,915

 

[LamieRobertson]

Daily Covid-19 admissions have dropped into double figures (98) for the first time in England since September 8th.

https://twitter.com/coronavirusgoo1/status/1385264958028402688?s=21

We are now nearly down to the lowest daily levels recorded last august around 1000 symptomatic cases per day. Our ZOE data excludes LFT only positives so has very low false positive rates

https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1385280701315092482?s=21

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I'm 44 and just tried to book a jab, and it worked. Didn't work for my 42 year old wife though

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

The percentage of over-50s vaccinated has hit 95% in England, NHS data shows.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56849874

 

[LamieRobertson]

I'm 44 and just tried to book a jab, and it worked. Didn't work for my 42 year old wife though

Need to get yourself an older model

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

 

[Mellotron]

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[wehatepalace]

From the telegraph:

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Coronavirus good news
@Coronavirusgoo1
Good news:

- 1 dose of either Pfizer or Oxford reduces chances of infection by 65%

- 2 doses of Pfizer reduces chances of infection by 90%

- Infections after vaccination much more likely to be asymptomatic

- Vaccines work as well regardless of age.

 

[Postman Pat]

Just had my jab, got the Moderna which they have just started using at Brighton Centre.

 

[Mellotron]

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[Dick Swiveller]

Just had my jab, got the Moderna which they have just started using at Brighton Centre.

First time Modern and Brighton Centre have been in the same sentence for a while.

 

[ozzygull]

Just had my jab, got the Moderna which they have just started using at Brighton Centre.

Had the Moderna one yesterday at the Madejski stadium last night. Apart from feeling like someone has punched me hard on my arm where I had the jab, I feel fine so far.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

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We now have solid evidence that there are vaccines that protect against all variants of concern:
✓ B.1.351 (S Africa)
✓ P.1 (Brazil)
✓ B.1.1.7 (UK)
✓ B.1.526 (NY)
✓ B.1.429 (CA)

 

[dazzer6666]

More of the same numbers-wise, all continue on the right path :

Infections - 2,678, rolling 7 day down 4.1%
Deaths - 40, rolling 7 day down 12.4%
Admissions - 174, rolling 7 day down 20.2%
Jabs - 117k 1st & 417k 2nd, 33.4m & 11.6m cumulative
In hospital - 1,879 (21/4)

 

[Weststander]

More of the same numbers-wise, all continue on the right path :

Infections - 2,678, rolling 7 day down 4.1%
Deaths - 40, rolling 7 day down 12.4%
Admissions - 174, rolling 7 day down 20.2%
Jabs - 117k 1st & 417k 2nd, 33.4m & 11.6m cumulative
In hospital - 1,879 (21/4)

Good to see case numbers in check, when lockdown has in many respects been eased for a while now.

The second vax programme is flying. The media outlets and always unhappy scientists predicting a devastating shortfall in April have gone rather quiet on the subject!

 

[Napper]

Good to see case numbers in check, when lockdown has in many respects been eased for a while now.

The second vax programme is flying. The media outlets and always unhappy scientists predicting a devastating shortfall in April have gone rather quiet on the subject!

They are still piping up with 3rd wave warnings and indian variants to stay relevant but its done.

Good news continues to flow.

Roll on summer

 

[dazzer6666]

Good to see case numbers in check, when lockdown has in many respects been eased for a while now.

The second vax programme is flying. The media outlets and always unhappy scientists predicting a devastating shortfall in April have gone rather quiet on the subject!

Fantastic isn't it ? I don't think it was so much a shortfall, it was more a 'flattening', so the rapid progress with first jabs came to a halt as the available juice had to go to second jabs to keep within the 12 week window. Plan seems to be to ramp up first jabs again as soon as more becomes available but continue with the current rate of second jabs (will have to otherwise the 12 week window gets missed). The incredible thing is - thanks to the vaccine strategy - the key hospitalisation and death numbers keep falling anyway because the vast majority of those likely to end up seriously ill are already protected (and the first jab is proving even more effective than any trial predicted)