Good News Thread Part 3

[FuzzyPuffling]

New thread as I got worried the old one was going to run out of space!

Thanks @FuzzyPuffling I think we can all use some positivity at the moment!

Looks like Oxford approved next week 😉 please please please

@Spiratedaway

Looks like Oxford approved next week 😉 please please please

Where did you see / hear this?

It's everywhere.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/0/covid-19-vaccine-moderna-oxford-pfizer-update-coronavirus/

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/oxford-vaccine-approve-christmas-covid-b1776481.html

Small positive bit of news, admittedly only relevant to me; my grandma (shes 98) has her first Covid jab booked for Thursday afternoon!!!

[quote FourTeaFallOut]It's everywhere.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/0/covid-19-vaccine-moderna-oxford-pfizer-update-coronavirus/

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/oxford-vaccine-approve-christmas-covid-b1776481.html[/quote]
Oh! I avoid the news as much as possible as it makes me depressed

yeah, they also said the Oxford would be approved today

I think the rumours about today were because the vaccine hubs were told to prepare. This is a leak from a widely reported 'Whitehall source' which is more concrete. It all depends on the new data yesterday. I'm refreshing by the minute!!

I got up early to watch the news!

I was thinking it could even be as early as tomorrow...if they have the data yesterday? Keeping everything crossed

My smidge of good news - I was contacted by NHS Professionals regarding my application to be a vaccinator. The email was from them asking me to complete my application online.

Maybe this means they are expecting approval imminently 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

The data shows that the vaccine reduces serious illness and risk of mortality from around 10 days of having just first dose

twitter.com/peston/status/1341355872761593857?s=21

@cathyandclare

I think the rumours about today were because the vaccine hubs were told to prepare. This is a leak from a widely reported 'Whitehall source' which is more concrete. It all depends on the new data yesterday. I'm refreshing by the minute!!

It was in the Telegraph article a few days ago along with the figure of 500,000 vaccinated by the weekend, both 'from a senior Whitehall source'. And the 500,000 figure turned out to be accurate so I have high hopes that they really are expecting vaccine approval next week as well.

January's going to be pretty miserable, but imagine going into it knowing they're rolling out a huge mass vaccination programme and millions more people are being vaccinated every week - will help things look up a bit.

[quote MarcelineMissouri]The data shows that the vaccine reduces serious illness and risk of mortality from around 10 days of having just first dose

twitter.com/peston/status/1341355872761593857?s=21[/quote]
Thank you, I knew I had read it somewhere but couldn’t recall where.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/covid-vaccine-likely-to-work-on-uk-variant-biontech-boss-says

This put my mind at rest - not sure if this has already been posted

This may be covered but the Biontech/pfizer boss says that it would only take 6 weeks to alter vaccine for new strain if needed.

I think all the vaccine work over the past year will go way beyond this pandemic and will help with future pandemics and other illnesses.

Another positive tweet re protection levels after 1 dose

twitter.com/stevebrown2856/status/1341436843934531586?s=21

According to Twitter the coronavirus dashboard will soon be updated with vaccinations given...a positive step...

That’s great- tracking positive stats for a change!!

Soon as in going live in a few hours or soon as in a week or two?

Just says coming very soon...would say days rather than hrs

Excellent, thanks.

www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin-idUSKBN28W2GP?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0JJP1p1Qn2sNZBUshfelEkPCryG-hTiC5lINuTcuJ9gzTgmVgBpuGr6hw

Good news about the new variant and oxford vaccine. Also, India should be approving it by next week. Surely they won’t beat us to it..?! Good news though

I've read about the journalist Christian Martin on this thread before; no-one's too sure what his links to the Oxford vaccine are but he's been pretty reliable so far. He's just tweeted this:

mobile.twitter.com/askomartin/status/1341548969990696960

Which according to Google Translate says:
LATEST: our sources in Oxford and Astrazeneca Cambridge Headquarters assure us that internally there is no doubt that the Oxford Vaccine will be effective against the new Covid strain. Approval in December 27/29. Millions of ready-made doses throughout the country.

Hopefully his source is still reliable!

👍🤞👍🤞