[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[Kinky Gerbil]

I get to stare at hunky men on Monday at the gym

 

[dazzer6666]

Limited, but very good, numbers update today :

Infections - 2,762, rolling 7 day down 33.5%
Deaths - 26, rolling 7 day down 44%
Jabs - 48k 1st and 48k 2nd (Easter Sunday....amazed we still did almost 100k)

 

[Richy_Seagull]

Limited, but very good, numbers update today :

Infections - 2,762, rolling 7 day down 33.5%
Deaths - 26, rolling 7 day down 44%
Jabs - 48k 1st and 48k 2nd (Easter Sunday....amazed we still did almost 100k)

Jabs stats are for the previous day.

 

[dazzer6666]

Jabs stats are for the previous day.

They always are.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

 

[Weststander]

Limited, but very good, numbers update today :

Infections - 2,762, rolling 7 day down 33.5%
Deaths - 26, rolling 7 day down 44%
Jabs - 48k 1st and 48k 2nd (Easter Sunday....amazed we still did almost 100k)

Down 44% is incredible. Lives not lost.

A virtuous circle from mass vaccination.

 

[timbha]

Limited, but very good, numbers update today :

Infections - 2,762, rolling 7 day down 33.5%
Deaths - 26, rolling 7 day down 44%
Jabs - 48k 1st and 48k 2nd (Easter Sunday....amazed we still did almost 100k)

I find it incredible that there have hardly been any blips or rogue results in the past couple of months.

Thanks for keeping us updated Boris, I mean Dazzer!

 

[dazzer6666]

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Down 44% is incredible. Lives not lost.

A virtuous circle from mass vaccination.

I’m actually genuinely (and happily) staggered at how the death rate has plummeted and continues to do so.......it’s a total vindication of the vaccination programme IMHO.......protect the vulnerable and very, very few people die. Same applies to admissions and people in hospital which have also fallen off a cliff.

 

[Weststander]

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I’m actually genuinely (and happily) staggered at how the death rate has plummeted and continues to do so.......it’s a total vindication of the vaccination programme IMHO.......protect the vulnerable and very, very few people die. Same applies to admissions and people in hospital which have also fallen off a cliff.

In ‘your’ daily stats over say the last ten weeks, it’s amazing how often a metric falls by 30-something percent on a rolling 7 day basis.

There must something about that percentage in the bell-shaped world of statistics and epidemics.

It’s interesting how the vaccinate young and healthy teachers debates fell away. Perhaps Whitty, Vallance and JVT knew what they were talking about after all, in terms of prioritising and where the main risks were. Reading about the response to vaccinating teachers overseas was an insight. By contrast, in Italy there was (in 2021) an aggressive pushback to vaccinating teachers, with unions claiming it breached their human rights and endangered them with rushed through vaccines.

 

[dazzer6666]

In ‘your’ daily stats over say the last ten weeks, it’s amazing how often a metric falls by 30-something percent on a rolling 7 day basis.

There must something about that percentage in the bell-shaped world of statistics and epidemics.

It’s interesting how the vaccinate young and healthy teachers debates fell away. Perhaps Whitty, Vallance and JVT knew what they were talking about after all, in terms of prioritising and where the main risks were. Reading about the response to teachers overseas was an insight. By contrast, in Italy there was in 2021 an aggressive pushback to vaccinating teachers, with unions claiming it breached their human rights and endangered them with rushed through vaccines.

Without painful analysis I can’t be arsed to do (would feel too much like going back to work) I think the death and admission rates have been on a fairly even downward plane for several weeks. I’d put this down initially to lockdown, then increasingly the vaccination effect....there will have been an intersection point where the latter becomes more dominant, probably when the O60s got jabbed, which along with the other more vulnerable cohorts stopped the serious effects of Covid19 in it’s tracks. We’re now digging into the far less vulnerable so the numbers keep dropping - in reality we’re probably very near the further intersection where further vaccs won’t affect the deaths/admissions too much (also the point where we ‘accept’ Covid as an illness that the NHS can cope with)

 

[Weststander]

Without painful analysis I can’t be arsed to do (would feel too much like going back to work) I think the death and admission rates have been on a fairly even downward plane for several weeks. I’d put this down initially to lockdown, then increasingly the vaccination effect....there will have been an intersection point where the latter becomes more dominant, probably when the O60s got jabbed, which along with the other more vulnerable cohorts stopped the serious effects of Covid19 in it’s tracks. We’re now digging into the far less vulnerable so the numbers keep dropping - in reality we’re probably very near the further intersection where further vaccs won’t affect the deaths/admissions too much (also the point where we ‘accept’ Covid as an illness that the NHS can cope with)

Huge respect to the great British public for having the faith to be vaccinated.

I had been concerned that a sizeable portion of over 60’s, say 20%, would’ve been heavily influenced by Facebook stirrers and mates. My son’s met many families and parents (in between lockdowns) in Brighton and Lewes who believe it’s all a Scandemic. Perhaps they’re just a noisy and tiny minority?

Proud of the 4 nations, from the NHS and volunteers running the whole show, to ‘the punters’.

 

[Poojah]

In ‘your’ daily stats over say the last ten weeks, it’s amazing how often a metric falls by 30-something percent on a rolling 7 day basis.

There must something about that percentage in the bell-shaped world of statistics and epidemics.

It’s interesting how the vaccinate young and healthy teachers debates fell away. Perhaps Whitty, Vallance and JVT knew what they were talking about after all, in terms of prioritising and where the main risks were. Reading about the response to vaccinating teachers overseas was an insight. By contrast, in Italy there was (in 2021) an aggressive pushback to vaccinating teachers, with unions claiming it breached their human rights and endangered them with rushed through vaccines.

I had a slightly awkward debate with my not particularly bright but quite opinionated mother-in-law the other night. She argued that we should have vaccinated the young first to stop the virus circulating amongst those most mobile in society. Of course, this strategy might work somewhere like New Zealand where you’re starting from a base of zero Covid, but the adoption of that approach here would no doubt have led to tens of thousands more deaths by now.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I don’t particularly like this current government of ours for an abundance of reasons, not least Boris Johnson. But though we, like many others, got our opening moves very very wrong a year ago, our vaccination strategy has been absolutely exemplary on virtually every level and deserves so much credit. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths are receding at a truly astonishing rate right now and that fact should be celebrated accordingly.

 

[dazzer6666]

I had a slightly awkward debate with my not particularly bright but quite opinionated mother-in-law the other night. She argued that we should have vaccinated the young first to stop the virus circulating amongst those most mobile in society. Of course, this strategy might work somewhere like New Zealand where you’re starting from a base of zero Covid, but the adoption of that approach here would no doubt have led to tens of thousands more deaths by now.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I don’t particularly like this current government of ours for an abundance of reasons, not least Boris Johnson. But though we, like many others, got our opening moves very very wrong a year ago, our vaccination strategy has been absolutely exemplary on virtually every level and deserves so much credit. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths are receding at a truly astonishing rate right now and that fact should be celebrated accordingly.

That.

 

[Weststander]

I had a slightly awkward debate with my not particularly bright but quite opinionated mother-in-law the other night. She argued that we should have vaccinated the young first to stop the virus circulating amongst those most mobile in society. Of course, this strategy might work somewhere like New Zealand where you’re starting from a base of zero Covid, but the adoption of that approach here would no doubt have led to tens of thousands more deaths by now.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I don’t particularly like this current government of ours for an abundance of reasons, not least Boris Johnson. But though we, like many others, got our opening moves very very wrong a year ago, our vaccination strategy has been absolutely exemplary on virtually every level and deserves so much credit. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths are receding at a truly astonishing rate right now and that fact should be celebrated accordingly.

I never had a strong view either way on whether healthy teachers in their 20’s and 30’s should get vaccinated. I listened to all the arguments including viral overload. In the end I just trusted Sage and also the likes of Dr Chris Smith - who were clear, with finite vaccine resources, saving the lives of thousands of elderly per week should be the absolute priority, and vaccinating all NHS staff (my wife was vax’d a week into January) and care home staff.

 

[nwgull]

I never had a strong view either way on whether healthy teachers in their 20’s and 30’s should get vaccinated. I listened to all the arguments including viral overload. In the end I just trusted Sage and also the likes of Dr Chris Smith - who were clear, with finite vaccine resources, saving the lives of thousands of elderly per week should be the absolute priority, and vaccinating all NHS staff (my wife was vax’d a week into January) and care home staff.

The SAGE group is full of outstanding individuals, not just the guys that are prominent in the media. It’s a no-brainier to be vaccinating the old farts first thorough. Not only does it save most lives from COVID directly, but it also takes a massive burden off the NHS, which will indirectly save lives of people that need treatment for non-COVID conditions.

 

[essbee1]

I had a slightly awkward debate with my not particularly bright but quite opinionated mother-in-law the other night. She argued that we should have vaccinated the young first to stop the virus circulating amongst those most mobile in society. Of course, this strategy might work somewhere like New Zealand where you’re starting from a base of zero Covid, but the adoption of that approach here would no doubt have led to tens of thousands more deaths by now.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I don’t particularly like this current government of ours for an abundance of reasons, not least Boris Johnson. But though we, like many others, got our opening moves very very wrong a year ago, our vaccination strategy has been absolutely exemplary on virtually every level and deserves so much credit. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths are receding at a truly astonishing rate right now and that fact should be celebrated accordingly.

Totally agree. But I would not give credit to the govt. as a whole for this. NHS staff, the army logistics, the GPs, the pharmacies, the brilliant volunteers and the single govt. minister who is overseeing it. I heard that at the Crick Institute that they were all mucking in - and you could even be signed
in at the desk for your jab by a Nobel Laureate. Amazing effort really.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Cough cough...u old duffers are sounding more like a debate (some of which I might disagree with, but not on here)

 

[LamieRobertson]

The Moderna vaccine will be in deployment "around the third week of April", vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi has confirmed.

"It will be in deployment around the third week of April in the NHS and we will get more volume in May as well," he told BBC Breakfast.

"And of course more volume of Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca and we have got other vaccines. We have got the Janssen - Johnson and Johnson - vaccine coming through as well.

"So I am confident that we will be able to meet our target of mid-April offering the vaccine to all over-50s and then end of July offering the vaccine to all adults."

 

[Marshy]

I have been on annual leave so apologies for lack of updates

As of 8am this morning UHS NHS trust... Formerly BSUH.... has only 10 covid patients. with 0 in ITU.

1 patient in RSCH and 9 at PRH.

 

[blue-shifted]

I have been on annual leave so apologies for lack of updates

As of 8am this morning UHS NHS trust... Formerly BSUH.... has only 10 covid patients. with 0 in ITU.

1 patient in RSCH and 9 at PRH.

Richly deserved mate

Great numbers

 

[Yoda]

I have been on annual leave so apologies for lack of updates

As of 8am this morning UHS NHS trust... Formerly BSUH.... has only 10 covid patients. with 0 in ITU.

1 patient in RSCH and 9 at PRH.

Do you not get told the former WSHT ones as well now seeing as you are one big trust?