[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[Kinky Gerbil]

Jamie Jenkins
@statsjamie
Police cars revolving lightPolice cars revolving light Breaking - further falls in the number of confirmed #Covid19 patients in hospital in #England

New admissions lower than people leaving so total cases falling

Total cases in hospital 56% lower than this time last year

1 in 4 in with Covid but not because of it

 

[banjo]

http://accurx.nhs.uk/r/rxmsnh6y9v

Managed to book a booster jab locally using the link above. (Worthing area) saves travelling to Brighton.

 

[banjo]

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Boosted yesterday.

 

[Yoda]

COVID-19: Most Omicron cases are 'mild' and there's no evidence to suggest vaccines may be less effective against the variant, says WHO official

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...fective-against-the-variant-says-who-12483729

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

drug treatment which, the makers say, works against the new Omicron variant of Covid-19, has been approved by UK regulators.

Xevudy (sotrovimab), made by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has been found to cut hospital admission and death by 79% in those at risk.

The monoclonal antibody has been authorised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for people with mild to moderate Covid-19 who are at high risk of developing severe disease.

It comes as GSK and Vir Biotechnology said preclinical data shows the drug "retains activity against key mutations of the new Omicron Sars-CoV-2 variant".

The UK Government has ordered around 100,000 doses of the drug.

George Scangos, chief executive of Vir, said: "Sotrovimab was deliberately designed with a mutating virus in mind.

"By targeting a highly conserved region of the spike protein that is less likely to mutate, we hoped to address both the current Sars-CoV-2 virus and future variants that we expected would be inevitable.

"This hypothesis has borne out again and again, with its ongoing ability to maintain activity against all tested variants of concern and interest to date, including key mutations found in Omicron, as demonstrated by preclinical data.

"We have every expectation that this positive trend will continue and are working rapidly to confirm its activity against the full combination sequence of Omicron."

 

[carlzeiss]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10266585/AstraZeneca-uncovers-trigger-blood-clots-jab.html

Scientists believe they have solved the mystery behind the extremely rare blood clots caused by the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

AstraZeneca uncovers ‘trigger’ of blood clots after its jab: Vaccine acts like a magnet and attracts platelets which body mistakes for a threat and attacks

New study has found possible link to rare jab blood-clots which killed 73 Britons
They found the virus used in the jab attracts a protein in the blood like a magnet
In a case of 'mistaken identity' the body then attacks this cluster, triggering clots

 

[spoonie]

1st November 9,623 People were in Hospital across the UK and on 1st December we had 7,336. The cases may be high but seems to be majority in the youngsters so not as many needed hospitalisation.

 

[Bozza]

Boosters work, kids.

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[dazzer6666]

Boosted....thank you scientists, NHS and volunteers

 

[Fungus]

Boosted....thank you scientists, NHS and volunteers

And thank you for being boosted!

 

[Billy the Fish]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...icron-outbreak-appears-mild-say-norway-covid/

As many as 120 people who attended the Louise Restaurant and Bar on the night of November 26th have now tested positive for coronavirus, about half of whom have screened positive for omicron, with 13 of those proven to have the variant in sequencing.

"They have symptoms like fever, cough, headache, muscle pain, fatigue, but for now, none of them has become severely ill, and none of them have been treated in hospital," Tine Ravlo, the Oslo infectious disease doctor responsible, told The Telegraph.
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Norway's state epidemiologist, Frode Forland, said that the sheer number of people infected at a single event added to evidence that omicron was considerably more infectious than the delta variant.

 

[dazzer6666]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...icron-outbreak-appears-mild-say-norway-covid/

Good to read the 'best case scenario' again.................

Forland, Director of Infectious Diseases at the Norwegian Institute of Public said that one of his agency's three scenarios for omicron was that it would be both very mild and very transmissible.

"That is the hope. That is the best scenario we can have," he said. "That it's getting milder, most people will get it, and they will get a natural immunity."

If that were the case, it might mark the beginning of the end for the Covid-19 pandemic, he said.

"It might be that it has now replicated and mutated so many times that this is the optimal position from the virus' point of view, to spread widely and not kill the hosts," he explained.

"That's what we've seen with other diseases beforehand. And of course, then it gets into more like an endemic phase."

 

[Weststander]

The key here is three doses including the booster.

[Nations that were very slow to get to double jab numbers and necessarily therefore booster jabs eg Austria could be in a lot of poo if Omicron is found to cause serious illness for many].

 

[Napper]

Just been announced that the office is closing on Monday and everyone can toss it off at home ...... i mean work from home

Christmas comes early !!

 

[driller]

News and report from South Africa.

 

[driller]

 

[Gazwag]

More proof boosters work:

Update from my wife's booster she had in the trial back in June. Her bloods still shows excellent resistance. Unfortunately the booster she had has been discontinued as that company have moved onto another better vaccine. The Moderna and Pfizer have shown ever better results on the trial subjects.

Means she will now have another booster in the new year as the one she has won't be recognised in the NHS passport app so will need to have one that is.

Her blood, along with the other 2,000 who took part in the trial is currently at Porton Down seeing how it fights the Omicron, which is quite exciting.

 

[LamieRobertson]

More proof boosters work:

Update from my wife's booster she had in the trial back in June. Her bloods still shows excellent resistance. Unfortunately the booster she had has been discontinued as that company have moved onto another better vaccine. The Moderna and Pfizer have shown ever better results on the trial subjects.

Means she will now have another booster in the new year as the one she has won't be recognised in the NHS passport app so will need to have one that is.

Her blood is currently at Porton Down seeing how it fights the Omicron, which is quite exciting.

I hope they left her a bit

 

[Gazwag]

I hope they left her a bit

It's okay she's filled up again