[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[Dick Swiveller]

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Wealden in the relegation places and a terrible goal difference. Hope Rother don't have a game in hand.

 

[A1X]

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Good news for two reasons;

1. The cases in Sussex are below (and often well below) the national average
2. It gives us all a fantastic opportunity to disown Crawley, which is all us true Sussex folk have wanted for a long time

 

[The Wizard]

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2036242

According to this the Pfizer vaccine >2 weeks after one dose, there is a 92% efficacy and after the second dose it goes up to nearly 95%, potentially more cracking news for our vaccine strategy.

We should start getting serious data in the next few weeks, which I’m anticipating will confirm the end of this hell in very close indeed.

 

[The Wizard]

 

[dazzer6666]

Worldwide new daily cases down over 50% since January 11th.

https://twitter.com/fact_covid/status/1362357897708134403?s=20

 

[Gazwag]

Wealden in the relegation places and a terrible goal difference. Hope Rother don't have a game in hand.

We have had all our vaccines taken away for so we might climb the table again soon

 

[dazzer6666]

Data update :

Infections - 12,057, rolling 7 day down 20.3% - whilst number appears to have flattened for a few days, the testing numbers also seem to have gone up over the last few days)
Deaths - 454, rolling 7 day down 26.9%
Admissions - 1,531, rolling 7 day down 24.8%
Vaccinations - 482k first jabs, more than reported last Thursday. Also, second jabs are just starting to ramp up - 15k yesterday.

 

[LamieRobertson]

The number of covid-19 deaths in the over 80s is starting to drop quickly.

The reported hospital deaths in the over 80s today in England is nearly 40% lower than this day last week.


Edit...soz should have checked first ..already posted

 

[shingle]

Just been Pfizered. The doctors surgery here in Lewes are reporting 100% take up today. Also saying some days Pfizer given and some days Oxford AZ given depending on what comes in.

 

[Weststander]

The Imperial College REACT study follows the home swabbing results of 160,000 volunteers (my wife’s one of them).

Their interim results for the last few days show infection rates at one fifth of levels in January in London & the SE.

Plus, do not believe the stirring from some hacks today about primary school age kids now taking over with horrendous infection rates. In absolute terms, theirs have fallen by a half.

 

[portslade seagull]

My son and his girlfriend have just been pfizered today in Worthing. Apparently both had underlying issues of which they are unaware of and the NHS wouldn't enlighten them. Son early 30s and girlfriend mid twenties. Meanwhile waiting my turn

 

[Mellotron]

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[Guinness Boy]

Data update :

Infections - 12,057, rolling 7 day down 20.3% - whilst number appears to have flattened for a few days, the testing numbers also seem to have gone up over the last few days)
Deaths - 454, rolling 7 day down 26.9%
Admissions - 1,531, rolling 7 day down 24.8%
Vaccinations - 482k first jabs, more than reported last Thursday. Also, second jabs are just starting to ramp up - 15k yesterday.

Really appreciate these daily stats mate. They are heading firmly in the right direction! It's almost like you have some time on your hands to prepare them

 

[Poojah]

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Potentially great news. A bit more anecdotal but I felt worth sharing; Covid recently ripped through my wife’s family. Her mum and two sisters run a childminding business together, so when they got it so did virtually everyone else around them (partners, their own children, the kids they look after and subsequently the kids’ parents).

There was only one person who had been in regular contact with them to test negative - my wife’s 80+ year old grandmother who suffers with Alzheimer’s. Both the missus’ mum and her sister care for her and so had been with her a couple of times a day in the run-up to their positive tests.

I can only believe this to have been possible, given how transmissible the bugger so clearly is, because she received the AZ vaccine in January. So again, albeit anecdotal, a suggestion that the vaccine reduces infection, not just symptoms.

 

[macbeth]

Some UK data now: just ONE dose cuts transmission by 2/3rds: [tweet] 1362521413551292417[/tweet]

Huge.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Some UK data now: just ONE dose cuts transmission by 2/3rds: [tweet] 1362521413551292417[/tweet]

Huge.

That Twitter handle is one of the best to follow....

 

[nwgull]

My son and his girlfriend have just been pfizered today in Worthing. Apparently both had underlying issues of which they are unaware of and the NHS wouldn't enlighten them. Son early 30s and girlfriend mid twenties. Meanwhile waiting my turn

Sounds a bit odd they they had underlying issues that they didn’t know about but that the NHS did. They weren’t another case like the bloke whose height they had as 6.2cm, were they?

 

[The Wizard]

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Over 40's to start being vaccinated before the end of March

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/over-40s-could-covid-vaccine-23527361

 

[atomised]

Over 40's to start being vaccinated before the end of March

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/over-40s-could-covid-vaccine-23527361

I'm over 40. Liking this