[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[dazzer6666]

... and Easyjet announce 50 daily flight from UK to Gib starting May 17

Go up rock, see apes. Admire view of North Africa. Buy cheap fags and booze. Ummm...........

 

[Poyningsgull]

Go up rock, see apes. Admire view of North Africa. Buy cheap fags and booze. Ummm...........

and your problem is....?

 

[dazzer6666]

and your problem is....?

Nowt else to do...............beaches are crap

 

[Rugrat]

Go up rock, see apes. Admire view of North Africa. Buy cheap fags and booze. Ummm...........

... come back on evening flight

 

[dazzer6666]

... come back on evening flight

That would work.

 

[Poojah]

Go up rock, see apes. Admire view of North Africa. Buy cheap fags and booze. Ummm...........

Been there once on business a few years ago and did all of that and very little else. Oh, I had a nice steak in the marina with a client before he suggested we visit a brothel just across the border. I declined to partake (honest!) but do keep in mind you wouldn’t be able to visit the brothel at this moment in time.

Ooh, I feel like Judith Chalmers on an episode of Wish you were here...

 

[shingle]

Got my second on Sunday NHS

 

[dazzer6666]

Great thread on Twitter about vaccine effectiveness...........

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1389617547935420423?s=21

 

[Poojah]

Great thread on Twitter about vaccine effectiveness...........

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1389617547935420423?s=21

Very good. I must say, of all of the mainstream media outlets over the course of the last year or so, the FT has stood out above all others in my opinion. Consistently excellent, measured and assured in their reporting.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

I'm 39, no underlying health conditions and have just had a text from my surgery to book jab - all booked in for next Thursday and 2nd one in July.

Looks like it's the under 40's turn now

 

[dazzer6666]

Wow.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...nes-87-effective-after-first-shot-2021-05-05/

https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1389900853759315970?s=21

 

[dazzer6666]

Daily numbers - huge weekly % drop in deaths, and admissions dropping towards double figures and in hospital number updated. Relentless forward progress continues.

Infections - 2,144, rolling 7 day down 12.1%
Deaths - 27, rolling 7 day down 41.2% (90 in 7 days)
Admissions - 108, rolling 7 day down 14.4%
Jabs - 121k/257k, cumulative 34.8/15.9m
In hospital - 1,285

 

[Poojah]

Daily numbers - huge weekly % drop in deaths, and admissions dropping towards double figures and in hospital number updated. Relentless forward progress continues.

Infections - 2,144, rolling 7 day down 12.1%
Deaths - 27, rolling 7 day down 41.2% (90 in 7 days)
Admissions - 108, rolling 7 day down 14.4%
Jabs - 121k/257k, cumulative 34.8/15.9m
In hospital - 1,285

The rapidly accelerating reduction in deaths is surely very telling - we seem to have reached that point where the link between cases and deaths has been broken. Almost halving by the week now, a very strong signal that those most at risk are now being protected.

 

[dazzer6666]

The rapidly accelerating reduction in deaths is surely very telling - we seem to have reached that point where the link between cases and deaths has been broken. Almost halving by the week now, a very strong signal that those most at risk are now being protected.

Vaccination of the most vulnerable first (and a large % have now had both doses) - and lo and behold very few people are dying any more, closely followed by the plummeting numbers going in to hospital (was 4,000 a day at the peak, now it's close to 100). Fantastic news and everything we hoped would happen.

 

[saulth]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I don't recall it. Zero covid cases in Gibraltar (100% vaccinated) for three weeks in a row.

After two months of more or less unrestricted life, one thing is clear: Vaccines do work. There have been no active cases among Gibraltarian residents for three weeks now. The COVID ward of St. Bernard’s Hospital has seen two hospitalizations and zero deaths since March 14. If anyone still needs convincing that vaccination is worth it, they won’t find a better case study than “Gib.” Forget about the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s about leaving the tunnel far behind.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/gibraltar-covid-vaccination-safe.html

Vaccines are wonderful.

 

[LamieRobertson]

https://youtu.be/3VE2_ZfL5g0

 

[LamieRobertson]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I don't recall it. Zero covid cases in Gibraltar (100% vaccinated) for three weeks in a row.



Vaccines are wonderful.

Post 7462 if you’d like more

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

This was posted on LinkedIn by a former colleague:

The power of vaccination

3 weeks after my first Pfizer vaccination, my Roche Anti-SARS-CoV2-S quantitative antibody level was only 8 U/mL

3 weeks after my second vaccination the level is now off scale at >2,500 U/mL

It’s a great feeling to have confirmation that 2 doses of the vaccine makes such a difference

 

[dazzer6666]

More incredible vaccine effectiveness data - Qatar

https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1390064064806760453?s=21

 

[dazzer6666]

.....and now some data from Israel

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...ection-after-two-doses-of-pfizer-jab-12298002

COVID-19: First nationwide data from Israel shows 95% protection from infection after two doses of Pfizer jab
The study uses data from between 24 January and 3 April, when the UK variant was responsible for most of Israel's infections.