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

My local pharmacy does flu vaccines, so do Boots.

@cathyandclare

They have been able to (and do so extensively) since 1996...... all those jabs our children get are usually given by a nurse, same with flu vaccines.

I am v surprised anyone, especially a Health Secretary doesn't know this.

Good news for the travel industry that England hasn't re added Portugal (or Greek islands) to the Quarantine list, even if its extremely puzzling as to why not.

Sorry I misunderstood you I know- I'm a doctor. I can't believe he didn't know, it defies belief

Come on! Roll out those saliva tests!

Thanks for that @littleowl1! I signed up last night.

My ds had the best first day back! :)

@herecomesthsun

This is a parenting forum, so is it surprising that people are writing about parenting ?

Except that this is a 'Coronavirus' forum and many if not most posts on the whole site aren't about 'parenting'.

My DC are also so happy to be back @ school.
We’re hoping to start weekly testing of staff (nhs) which will really help with mapping transmission.

I've seen a few tweets and comments elsewhere about positive cases starting to creep back up to March/April levels. However, we can't directly compare as we are testing considerably more now.

I find these graphs reassuring in inferring infection rates over time based on all of the data so far, as it indicates a significantly larger portion of people were infected than the number of positive cases in the first few months. It puts the current numbers a bit more in perspective.

It looks like the tests might be a bit too sensitive and picking people who have dead virus in their blood so might explain why cases are increasing but hospital cases aren’t.

Evening,I came onto the post the exact same news as the PP. But considering this forum seems so depressing tonight,I thought this thread could do with a bump anyway!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-54000629?__twitter_impression=true

all those jabs our children get are usually given by a nurse, same with flu vaccines.
I am v surprised anyone, especially a Health Secretary doesn't know this.

I didn't see Hancock's interview, but is this just a (deliberate) misunderstanding by the media?

He lists GPs in this quote as well;

"He told BBC viewers; "we have changed the law so that more people can administer the jab. We want pharmacists, nurses, and GPs to be able to administer the jab."

nursingnotes.co.uk/news/hancock-change-law-allowing-nurses-administer-flu-vaccines/

"Consultation document: changes to Human Medicine Regulations to support the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines."

"Expand the workforce legally allowed to administer vaccines under NHS and local authority occupational health schemes, so that additional healthcare professionals in the occupational health workforce will be able to administer vaccines. Vaccinations for health and care workers are often administered through occupational health schemes, but only nurses are authorised to administer prescription-only medicines under written instruction of a doctor.The proposals would expand the workforce that can administer COVID-19 and flu vaccinations under an NHS or local authority occupational health scheme so that it also includes midwives, nursing associates, operating department practitioners, paramedics, physiotherapists and pharmacists" ...

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/distributing-vaccines-and-treatments-for-covid-19-and-flu/consultation-document-changes-to-human-medicine-regulations-to-support-the-rollout-of-covid-19-vaccines

This seems like a positive development. Nothing guaranteed of course so caution required but definitely good news!

www.standard.co.uk/news/health/matt-hancock-uk-coronavirus-vaccine-next-year-a4541561.html

Some stuff about how lung damage can heal in some patents after being seriously ill, sounds positive today.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/06/lungs-damaged-coronavirus-can-repair-three-months/

Dr Sabina Sahanic, who worked on the study at the University Clinic in Innsbruck, said: "The bad news is that people show lung impairment from Covid-19 weeks after discharge; the good news is that the impairment tends to ameliorate over time, which suggests the lungs have a mechanism for repairing themselves.”

It’s been a crappy couple of days for case numbers that’s for sure but I was just reading this twitter thread by Ed Conway which has some really reassuring graphs in it about how the path we’re currently on seems quite different to before...

twitter.com/edconwaysky/status/1303035292753031171?s=21

This article is interesting about how different a situation we are now compared with March:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54064347

Declining fatality rates across all age groups:

www.cebm.net/covid-19/declining-covid-19-case-fatality-rates-across-all-ages-analysis-of-german-data/

Some more positive vaccine news

apple.news/AQYujwD4pS7Sp3KuwHixNEA

"Five reasons why coronavirus rise in cases is not all it seems - extra testing, targeted at high infection rate areas and a massively under-estimated spring peak all should be taken into account" Nick Triggle BBC

www.bbc.com/news/health-54064347

[quote MarcelineMissouri]Declining fatality rates across all age groups:

www.cebm.net/covid-19/declining-covid-19-case-fatality-rates-across-all-ages-analysis-of-german-data/[/quote]
I read that, it's really interesting.

Sorry I hadn't realised that article had already been posted.

Some important points though, particularly with the articles from a few days ago about tests potentially picking up dead virus.

apple.news/ApVs20ii-RSSFu8cY6ut8eQ

covid19vaccinetrial.co.uk/trial-resumes

The Oxford trial is back on hurray. Seems like the issue wasn't related to the vaccine but hope that person recovers well.

Thanks for the posts on this thread. I've just been reading through.
It can feel like a zombie apocalypse reading some of the other covid threads

Anymore good news having a paranoid day :-)

Pfizer vaccine is being expanded to 44,000 trial participants.

mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2630QH?