[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[seagullwedgee]

Try it with a 92 year old...the look of disgust when I couldn’t get hold of a tin of evaporated milk despite trying two stores

Just leave half a pint of semi skimmed outside your back door in the sun for four days and use that.

That should solve the problem. One way or another....

 

[LamieRobertson]

Just leave half a pint of semi skimmed outside your back door in the sun for four days and use that.

That should solve the problem. One way or another....

Problem there is it don't come in a tin! ...Anyway solved with tonight’s shopping ...5 large tins just to get that sorted for the next few months

 

[seagullwedgee]

Don’t tell me. Peach segments. From a tin. Doused in Carnation Evaporated Milk. From a tin. Wartime spirit.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Good news - ZERO deaths in the whole of Sussex over the last 24hrs.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Try it with a 92 year old...the look of disgust when I couldn’t get hold of a tin of evaporated milk despite trying two stores

Haha, I can see it now.
I have that with lemonade, and I get diet lemonade because my fathers diabetic, but my mum will forget and give him the wrong one!
I have to be cruel to be kind!

 

[Postman Pat]

Good news - ZERO deaths in the whole of Sussex over the last 24hrs.

Only one new case too.

In Brighton and Hove the total number of cases remains the same as yesterday at 408. One further case has been confirmed in East Sussex, bringing the total to 666, and the total for West Sussex remained the same at 1,276.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18460871.coronavirus-latest-sussex-figures/

 

[The Wizard]

244 NHS England hospital deaths announced last Wednesday, 166 this week. 130 of those in the last 5 days, hopefully the after weekend care home deaths today will give us a better picture of where we are at care homes wise. Hospital deaths coming down in England rapidly though, for a Wednesday 166 is very low this time a month ago it was 650.

 

[dazzer6666]

244 NHS England hospital deaths announced last Wednesday, 166 this week. 130 of those in the last 5 days, hopefully the after weekend care home deaths today will give us a better picture of where we are at care homes wise. Hospital deaths coming down in England rapidly though, for a Wednesday 166 is very low this time a month ago it was 650.

With the odd exception, the comparable day number (ie as you saw Weds-Weds-Weds etc) is really dropping very quickly, at least in hospitals. The care home situation is horrible but now is starting to feel a bit like a 'different problem', or at least one that needs different measures because away from that it's looking much more hopeful. No new cases detected in London on May 18th is hugely positive too - added to the SE, that's a population of 18 million people.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...s-east-of-england-public-health-england-tests

 

[The Wizard]

Double post!

 

[Pierre the Painter]

https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/ideal-weather-conditions-may-have-helped-coronavirus-thrive-initially-study-suggests/740533

Short term good news at least, there does seem to be some link with weather/temperature and how it affects the spread. Looks increasingly likely that higher temperatures, move exposure to UV and more sunlight are not as conducive for the virus to spread so will help us to suppress over the summer and maybe get some of the hospitality industry open before we may face further challenges over autumn/winter. As many countries in Europe lift lockdowns so far there doesn't seem to be any great increase in transmissions which may again be linked particularly over Southern Europe to the better/warmer weather.

 

[Yoda]

Good news - ZERO deaths in the whole of Sussex over the last 24hrs.

Sorry to put a dampener on this one, but in today's update Western Sussex Hospitals has one now recorded for 18-May-20.

On the plus side, none reporting any for 19-May-20 (as yet)

 

[gripper stebson]

Good to see Martin from Game On has done OK.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Good to see Martin from Game On has done OK.

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I thought it was Cedric from Darling Buds of May?

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Record testing in one day today 177,000, the BBC didn't see it as breaking news, but I do.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Record testing in one day today 177,000, the BBC didn't see it as breaking news, but I do.

Maybe because only 66000 people were tested. Someone mentioned that on the other thread. Dunno why there is as big a disparity. Having said that, it is great that we are upping capacity!

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Record testing in one day today 177,000, the BBC didn't see it as breaking news, but I do.

Number test sent out rather test taking place. However if you don’t send them out you can’t get the tests done.


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[Lyndhurst 14]

Only in New York

 

[bobbysmith01]

Was told by a nurse at Worthing Hospital yesterday that they have no Covid patients at the moment, that has to be very encouraging.


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[Triggaaar]

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Only in New York

Good news for my sister, she's going to be a star. She'd always been held back by her face.

 

[Postman Pat]

Can people who recover from COVID-19 get it again or do they become immune?

That’s been one of the most urgent questions raised by health experts during the coronavirus pandemic, because the answer has sweeping implications. If the antibodies that people produce to fight off the virus do make them immune, they can resume their lives after recovery without fear of reinfection. It also increases the likelihood that scientists can create a vaccine to trigger a similar immune response.

Now research teams led by a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center vaccine specialist have published two studies of laboratory monkeys that suggest the answer is yes ― antibodies do provide protection, whether they are triggered by an infection or a vaccine.

Both studies, which appear to be among the first peer-reviewed papers studying immunity to COVID-19 in primates, were published Wednesday in the journal Science.

Dr. Dan Barouch, head of Beth Israel’s Center for Virology and Vaccine Research and lead author of the studies, said more research must be done to determine whether the findings apply to humans. But he’s hopeful, given that humans and rhesus macaque monkeys share 93 percent of the same genetic makeup.

“We have to be careful about making predictions for humans,” said Barouch, who is also affiliated with the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard University. "But I can say these data increase our optimism that natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity can be achieved in humans.”

Neither study determined whether the immunity response is permanent or how long it may last. Still, other vaccine experts were buoyed by the findings.

Dr. Louis Picker, associate director of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, said the studies “convinced me that this is an infection that will be controllable with vaccination.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05...ity/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true