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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
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darkwolf666
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Figures heading in the right direction, nationally...
https://coviddatashare.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/TableCumulative_Rate_20210117.html
https://coviddatashare.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/TableCumulative_Rate_20210117.html
Great to see so much green in the end column
So that would be 1 in 13 people who we aim to have vaccinated. Excellent.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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Over 50% of people over 80, which is especially important when nearly 80% of deaths are amongst that age group, it should have a massive impact on mortality through February you would think.
JJ McClure
Go Jags
Positive feedback from my dad who had his jab in Haywards Heath yesterday, said it was really well organised and he felt very safe with all the measures in place.
darkwolf666
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Indeed. The figures are still really high, but falling.
Just need to see the same on hospitalisations and a reduction in deaths will follow...
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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More good news, infection rate in Brighton and hove looks like it’s falling at a similar rate to the national rate.
That’s a very powerful chart. Week-on-week, a fourfold increase in serious cases for 40-55 year olds is contrasted by a 50% reduction in the over sixties category. This is what the beginning of the end looks like.
All eyes very much on Israel and seeing if this pattern continues as they cycle through the agebands
Israel has now vaccinated almost 30% of its population. Meanwhile, we are approaching the 7% mark and in percentage terms are way ahead of any other western nation (France somehow still floundering at just over half a percent).
Not quite ‘world bearing’, but bloody good nonetheless.
To put in even greater perspective, only the US and China have vaccinated more than us and we’ve vaccinated almost double that of Israel. Given relative population sizes of the top countries, we’re doing brilliantly.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
People in England aged 70 and over, as well as those listed as clinically extremely vulnerable, will begin receiving offers of a coronavirus vaccine this week.
From the bbc website
From the bbc website
This is fantastic news, the government can only be commended for their efficient handling so far of the vaccination program.
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Madafwo
I'm probably being facetious.
- Nov 11, 2013
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It took me a while to realise that this is good news as at first I failed to see that it was as a percentage of serious cases, not the number of serious cases.
That's quite a dramatic drop off.
If that's all over 70's getting an invitation to vaccinate then that's my parents expecting a letter in the next couple of days.
Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
I think very sensibly delegating the logistics to the Army is the reason for the ongoing success.
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My dear Dad (of this parish) had his vaccination two weeks ago. Don't know if his doctors' just had an excess or something?
Data from Israel giving hope about plans to reopen country, says minister
The drop in mortality rates in Israel - which is leading the vaccine race - is setting a path for restrictions to be lifted in the UK, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi has suggested.
The small country—whose roughly nine million population is less than that of Greater London —has vaccinated around 20 per cent of the population, including more than 72 per cent of over-60s. While there was little difference between those who had been vaccinated and those who hadn't in the first 14 days, data shows a 33 per cent fall in infection rates thereafter.
The drop in mortality rates in Israel - which is leading the vaccine race - is setting a path for restrictions to be lifted in the UK, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi has suggested.
The small country—whose roughly nine million population is less than that of Greater London —has vaccinated around 20 per cent of the population, including more than 72 per cent of over-60s. While there was little difference between those who had been vaccinated and those who hadn't in the first 14 days, data shows a 33 per cent fall in infection rates thereafter.