Lots of good news at the moment!

[FrugiFan]

www.bbc.com/news/health-53467022
A trial of a drug which could reduce ICU admission by 79%, and is already in use for other things so doesnt need human trials for side effects etc.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53469839
Promising news about one of the many vaccines in production.

Hospital admissions have not increased, more than 2 weeks after pubs and restaurants reopened.

Lots of reasons to think positive at the moment

[quote tobee]Plus a baby gorilla has been born at Bristol Zoo!!

🤣🤣🤣

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53874594[/quote]
Oh those photos are so cute

Baby gorilla - just gorgeous 😍

[quote tobee]Plus a baby gorilla has been born at Bristol Zoo!!

🤣🤣🤣

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53874594[/quote]
Pandemic? What pandemic? 😍😍

Chris Whitty always reassures me. Says reasonable chance vaccine ready for next winter, by which I assume he means for everyone so I think we’re looking at priority vaccination in the spring? I find it helpful to have a time frame to look to.

www.researchgate.net/publication/343797723_Emerging_of_a_SARS-CoV-2_viral_strain_with_a_deletion_in_nsp1

This is just a preprint and I don't pretend to understand the science lol maybe someone else does? Seems to suggest a strain has been identified that has mutated with potential to be less severe. Says it is important to find out if this strain is in circulation.

reaction.life/we-may-already-have-herd-immunity-an-interview-with-professor-sunetra-gupta/

10 minute breath test!!
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-trials-10-minute-coronavirus-breath-test-hl6w0lvzw

I really hope one of these things actually comes to fruition the saliva tests seem to have disappeared and a lot of the quick results tests seem to have come to nothing as well. It would be such a game changer to have something like this properly rolled out.

it would be such a game changer to have something like this properly rolled out.

I couldn’t agree more. In the short term, swift testing has the most potential to get us back to something like normal.

I really love this thread. I was feeling quite depressed about everything today. Reading the comments here always makes me feel more optomistic and hopeful. 💕

*optimistic

Thought these were good, reassuring graphs of the current situation in Europe despite rising cases

@Jrobhatch29 love your positive stories
Have you heard latest on vaccine ? Prob by end of year !

This is a great thread. Thank you to all who are contributing

[quote Ellsbells12]@Jrobhatch29 love your positive stories
Have you heard latest on vaccine ? Prob by end of year ![/quote]
Oh no I haven't heard that. That would be great!

Trials to begin on the Oxford dual antibody treatment
news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-important-milestone-as-volunteers-given-first-doses-in-covid-19-treatment-trial-12056132

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.23.20179796v1

Memory B cells remain stable even after antibodies have faded. Looks good for longer term immunity

[quote feelingverylazytoday]Trials to begin on the Oxford dual antibody treatment
news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-important-milestone-as-volunteers-given-first-doses-in-covid-19-treatment-trial-12056132[/quote]
Oh this is good news 😊😊

@Jrobhatch29

Thought these were good, reassuring graphs of the current situation in Europe despite rising cases

Thank goodness for this thread! The stats are speaking for themselves there. Thanks for sharing!

It's good news that the Government has changed its mind about masks being worn in schools, so kids are a bit more protected there.

Good news today: In Scotland in the last week nearly 17,500 children (2-17) have been tested revealing 49 cases, only an increase of 2 from the week before when tests were significantly lower. This should provide parents with some reassurance, especially in lower risk areas.

Positive cases across England fall for the first time in 6 weeks,
despite an increase in testing. This is from 6616 to 6115 cases/ week.

Fingers crossed this will continue.

Ohh that is good news, where did you see this?

[quote Ellsbells12]@Jrobhatch29 love your positive stories
Have you heard latest on vaccine ? Prob by end of year ![/quote]
Ooh that is good news, where did you read this?

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/28/vanishingly-small-risk-of-death-or-severe-illness-for-children-from-covid

There is a thread on this but the doom mongers have already turned it into a school misery thread. Hope the OP of that thread doesn't mind me posting it here where it might just be accepted as some positive news. Risks to children vanishingly small!

This is such a good thread. Keep the good news coming