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

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54120753

This sounds a very positive step for treatment.

Monoclonal antibodies, which are potent, laboratory-made antibodies, will be given to about 2,000 people to see if they are effective against coronavirus.

It forms part of the UK Recovery Trial, which found that a cheap steroid called dexamethasone could save lives.

The first patients will be given the new drugs in the coming weeks.

Prof Martin Landray from the University of Oxford, who is co-leading the Recovery Trial, said: “This is the first type of treatment that's targeted for this specific virus.

“There are lots of good reasons for thinking it might well be effective - stopping the virus from reproducing, stopping the virus from causing damage, improving survival for patients.

“We need to know, and the way to know is to do the trials that will tell us whether that hope turns into reality.”

Another potential new treatment. This one sounds very exciting, though still in it's early stages scitechdaily.com/ab8-covid-19-drug-breakthrough-tiny-antibody-component-completely-neutralizes-the-sars-cov-2-virus/

@feelingverylazytoday - That is potentially very good news.

A vaccine with good efficacy plus a good treatment is the key to this.
(Clearly, I am stating the obvious there!)

Jumping back on this thread. Lots of depressing stuff around.

Also, this is a brilliant podcast from the radio 4 programme The Life Scientific about the incredible Oxford University vaccine progress:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000mj18

Thanks for keeping posting, I really need this thread today!!

This is a great 15 min video from Sky on data from UK and Europe.

Just wanted to share this, as it is a positive viewpoint on the scaremongering press:

www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563.full?ijkey=fb7IwiBWN21zMIF&keytype=ref#

Really interesting article on the possibility of some pre existing immunity

Not sure to make of this, but it sounds interesting anyway
medium.com/@drhassaballa/new-research-on-masks-show-they-can-act-like-a-vaccine-5dbde9398dd4

Interesting... Keep the good news stories coming

Thank you 🙏 will be dipping into these videos and links later

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-53932294?__twitter_impression=true

Another reassuring article about the small risks to children. Nothing we didn't know but found this part very reassuring in relaid on to other childhood illnesses:

Very low numbers of children have been admitted to critical care and the researchers reported a very low death rate - particularly in comparison to adults but also in comparison to the death rate due to other infections, influenza, chicken pox, meningitis, group-A-strep[tococcus] sepsis etc, and other causes of childhood death - for example, road traffic accidents," she said.

www.lji.org/news-events/news/post/t-cells-take-the-lead-in-controlling-sars-cov-2-and-reducing-covid-19-disease-severity/

T cells take the lead in controlling covid and reducing severity

"In line with what other research teams had found before, antibodies don’t seem to play an important role in controlling acute COVID-19. Instead, T cells and helper T cells in particular are associated with protective immune responses. “This was perplexing to many people,” says Crotty, “but controlling a primary infection is not the same as vaccine-induced immunity, where the adaptive immune system is ready to pounce at time zero.”

Thank you for this thread.

It always makes me laugh when I read the title.

Not going to read 30 pages but in case it hasnt been mentioned anyone eligible might want to bookmark this website and enroll if you get Covid. www.covidtrialathome.com/

Any news on vaccine people hanging by a thread here :-)

@Ellsbells12

Any news on vaccine people hanging by a thread here :-)

MN is fun today isn't it......

I think I might have to come off again for a bit like I did in April, it's gone crazy again!

@Sunshinegirl82

I think I might have to come off again for a bit like I did in April, it's gone crazy again!

Agreed i'm not going on any of the other threads except this one now.

The way I’m looking at it is we are in a very different position to March.

This professor on Twitter is excellent to follow for a sensible approach.

twitter.com/ProfKarolSikora

I’m not sure he can be classed as sensible didn’t he say it would be all over by June?

[quote 2020CanDoOne]The way I’m looking at it is we are in a very different position to March.

This professor on Twitter is excellent to follow for a sensible approach.

twitter.com/ProfKarolSikora[/quote]
I believe he was confident it would all be over by September.

I’m not aware of that tweet. He is an Oncologist so is focused on how many lives have been lost during lockdown due to delayed treatment and undetected cancers. It’s about balancing the threat of the virus against many other factors, something a lot of people seem to lose sight of.

I’m not aware of that tweet. He is an Oncologist so is focused on how many lives have been lost during lockdown due to delayed treatment and undetected cancers. It’s about balancing the threat of the virus against many other factors, something a lot of people seem to lose sight of.

Trouble is if we let COVID rip through the population the NHS would be overwhelmed and cancer (and other) treatments would still be stuffed.

I am going to do the same @Jrobhatch29 it is so hysterical etc