[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Ah, got it from a second hand source. Anyway, I don't think (as said elsewhere) these figures are prticularly meaningful beyond the long term trend. Too many variables.

Worldometers are saying the following regarding todays testings figures. (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/)

The Government has announced that the total number of people tested and positive cases in pillar 1 have been revised since yesterday’s total, after changes to historical data for Scotland to avoid counting people or cases more than once across pillars.
The cumulative totals today are therefore 88 lower for positive cases, than if you added the daily figures to yesterday’s totals.

So the 968 plus the 88 gives the 1056 mentioned by [MENTION=17745]Poojah[/MENTION]

 

[LamieRobertson]

https://twitter.com/anshul__k/status/1272552641764175872?s=21

 

[The Wizard]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...romise-treating-severe-COVID-19-patients.html

Another treatment that shown promising results for the sickest patients, small scale but real promise. Treatments like this could be a big stepping stone towards getting out of this.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Wizzy you follow this guy....

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[LamieRobertson]

[tweet]1272816392501370881[/tweet]

Latest tweet from the Prof ..some of us appreciate him

 

[LamieRobertson]

Wk ending June 5th ....London having less than the five year average Of deaths

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[Poojah]

Wk ending June 5th ....London having less than the five year average Of deaths

https://twitter.com/anshul__k/status/1272813618061545477?s=21

I guess this kind of inverse pattern is to be expected over the coming weeks. Many of the people who would have been dying in that timeframe have already been taken by Covid.

I expect that when we are able to look at this from the perspective of a three year period, 2020 to 2023, I think we'll see something much softer in terms of the number of excess deaths than we do right now. That's not trying to make light of the collective and personal tragedies before us, nor the massive economic impact, it's just an observation.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

34 people aged under 40 have died from Covid 19 with no pre existing conditions as of 10/6/20

 

[saulth]

I guess this kind of inverse pattern is to be expected over the coming weeks. Many of the people who would have been dying in that timeframe have already been taken by Covid.

Interestingly the same happened last week in Sweden for the first time. From Reuters:

Sweden last week recorded no excess mortality compared to the average of the past five years for the first time since COVID-19 struck a country whose death toll in the pandemic has eclipsed that of its neighbours, statistics showed on Monday.

Preliminary data from Statistics Sweden showed the country registered 1,524 deaths last week, slightly lower than the average for 2015–2019, which was 1,569 deaths.

 

[saulth]

Super-potent human antibodies protect against COVID-19 in animal tests

Scientists isolate powerful coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies from COVID-19 patients and successfully test in animals, all in less than seven weeks.

A lot of very relevant info here: https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20200615-burton-covid19antibody.html

I found this particularly interesting:

In the course of their attempts to isolate anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from the COVID-19 patients, the researchers found one that can also neutralize SARS-CoV, the related coronavirus that caused the 2002-2004 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Asia.

“That discovery gives us hope that we will eventually find broadly neutralizing antibodies that provide at least partial protection against all or most SARS coronaviruses, which should be useful if another one jumps to humans,” Burton says.

 

[Mellotron]

Super-potent human antibodies protect against COVID-19 in animal tests

Scientists isolate powerful coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies from COVID-19 patients and successfully test in animals, all in less than seven weeks.

A lot of very relevant info here: https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20200615-burton-covid19antibody.html

I found this particularly interesting:

Yeah, that last bit is potentially very, very good news regarding how we might be able to fight future pandemics much more successfully..

 

[loz]

34 people aged under 40 have died from Covid 19 with no pre existing conditions as of 10/6/20

Out of about 36 million, very sad but is that abnormal or normal for a Covid out break ??

Its still very sad though.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Had a bbc news flash on my phone which I can’t find now ..something about a steroid that greatly helps patients with COVID-19..anyone a link on this

 

[The Wizard]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-12007880

A cheap and readily available steroid treatment reduces deaths but a third, been hailed as a ‘MAJOR breakthrough’ a potentially massive moment in the fight against COVID.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I know there is a thread for it

But just over 24 hours till football is back

 

[LamieRobertson]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-12007880

A cheap and readily available steroid treatment reduces deaths but a third, been hailed as a ‘MAJOR breakthrough’ a potentially massive moment in the fight against COVID.

That’s what I was referring too ..couldn’t find it in the bbc site despite it being a bbc news flash

 

[jabba]

Had a bbc news flash on my phone which I can’t find now ..something about a steroid that greatly helps patients with COVID-19..anyone a link on this

BBC news. Reduces risk of death when on ventilator by a third, and by 20% if on oxygen.

 

[saulth]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-12007880

A cheap and readily available steroid treatment reduces deaths but a third, been hailed as a ‘MAJOR breakthrough’ a potentially massive moment in the fight against COVID.

It's a very significant reduction. Slowly but surely science is getting there.

 

[The Wizard]

The maths behind the findings on that drug:

Ventilated patients

With no drug: 40% of ventilated patients unfortunately die
With this drug: 28% of ventilated patients die

It may not sound a lot but a reduction on mortality by 12%, saving an extra person from every 8 cases is a big breakthrough, considering there has been no drug so far that has been proven to have any effect at all, it’s not a miracle drug but a big finding all the same and could open the door to using it with other drugs to help even further.

 

[Mellotron]

The maths behind the findings on that drug:

Ventilated patients

With no drug: 40% of ventilated patients unfortunately die
With this drug: 28% of ventilated patients die

It may not sound a lot but a reduction on mortality by 12%, saving an extra person from every 8 cases is a big breakthrough, considering there has been no drug so far that has been proven to have any effect at all, it’s not a miracle drug but a big finding all the same and could open the door to using it with other drugs to help even further.

Well also you'd hope it just helps continue to refine, narrow down the search and point scientists in the right direction in terms of what other drugs could help, and in the process of producing new drugs to tackle COVID.