Good News Thread Part 3

[FuzzyPuffling]

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

Just checking in.
Thanks for the thread, FuzzyPuffling.
My personal good news (which I have posted elsewhere) is that mil in her mid 80s is being jabbed on Wednesday.
I was hopeful they would do a few token jabs before Christmas but for there to be quite decent numbers including a family member is better than I expected

Well,today's not been the best so far has it! I,like everyone,am hanging on for news about the Oxford Vaccine,googling it every day. Earlier on R5 they had Fergus Walsh discussing the TV show he's done about how the vaccine was developed that I think is on TV tonight. He was extolling it's benefits over the Pfizer one (easier to transport,can get kept in any fridge,better for developing countries) and I think he made a bit of a slip up as he started to say the vaccine could be approved in a week,then changed it to before Christmas.

Now,maybe this was me hoping to hear something positive from someone in the know,and tbh, I'll take it on this crappy day!

I’m so desperate for the Oxford news, because it will surely speed things up considerably. I’m wondering though whether they will continue to give the Pfizer one to the elderly/healthcare workers and give the Oxford one to those at the younger end of the priority list?
I can’t wait for my mum to have one. She’s 79 so missing the first round by a whisker.

Fuck, I hadn’t seen the news

Sorry, that message was not in the spirit of the thread

It's not unprecedented news tho iyswim

No and now I have read a bit more it’s not so alarming. Just feels like we’re constantly having obstacles thrown at us and it’s exhausting

@TeaInTheGarden

Thanks for the new thread. Everything crossed this will be the tread we can celebrate oxford approval and roll out 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Hear hear

Place marking on the new thread, it keeps me going! I'm excited about how far we'll have come by the end of this thread!

I had heard a while ago that MIT had managed to correctly identify people with covid just by listening to them coughing (even if they were asymptomatic and had to force a cough) - with ridiculously high accuracy:

news.mit.edu/2020/covid-19-cough-cellphone-detection-1029

Well, now Cambridge is doing similar research and you can enrol to help by downloading an app onto your phone and coughing into it:

www.covid-19-sounds.org/en/

ChineseChicken don't worry - I think we all hear or feel things that knock us for six. That's very different from the Doom-mongers on some other threads who seem to take delight in being negative.
We aren't Pollyannas!

Take a deep breath and keep your eye on the prize!

A nurse is the first person to be vaccinated in the US www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-distribution/nurse-gets-new-yorks-first-covid-19-vaccine-as-u-s-rollout-begins-idUSKBN28O1TQ?utm_source=reddit.com
How fitting and well deserved. Best of luck to the US in rolling out their vaccination programme, especially their frontline health workers. It's hard to imagine what they are going through at the moment.

Wow Plibber, my mind is boggled.
Imagine how we would look back on the old days of primitive throat and nose swabbing, if that became the standard way to detect it.

@feelingverylazytoday

A nurse is the first person to be vaccinated in the US www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-distribution/nurse-gets-new-yorks-first-covid-19-vaccine-as-u-s-rollout-begins-idUSKBN28O1TQ?utm_source=reddit.com How fitting and well deserved. Best of luck to the US in rolling out their vaccination programme, especially their frontline health workers. It's hard to imagine what they are going through at the moment.

Great news

Thanks so much for this wonderful thread. Got everything crossed for some Oxford news in the coming days! Surely it must be sooooon!

I’ve decided I’m going to take one for the team and stop obsessively checking the news for Oxford, a watched pot and all that. It’s almost certain to be announced while I’m looking away

Well done Fleshlumpeater. Keep looking away....! (We'll shout if anything comes up!)

Such good news about the vaccine being rolled out via GPs now, as well as hospital hubs. MIL, 86, is keen to get her jab. We keep saying we think she'll get called forward any day now. We want her to be able to resume her old life without being in constant fear of the virus. She's been so careful for months now, but really misses her social life, and pottering around the shops. She is quite a resiliant person, but the time has dragged for her. Well, like it has for many people, I guess. This thread is great.

There's a panorama programme on BBC1 now about the Oxford vaccine development. I'm watching...

Today I heard of younger people with health conditions and people in the 70s with appointments for vaccines for this year. I was surprised as they're further down the list but I was assured it was really true. I guess they're appointments ready for the Oxford vaccine.

That was a great programme. Clear and positive and the Head of AZ at the end... he wasn't the only teary one!

Ooo I think I will watch on catch up....I’m taking it as a good sign of approval soon!

Did the programme give any clues on how long approval may take..?! Will definitely be catching up.
I feel so proud of the oxford team, it’s bizarre really considering I have zero links with them. I just remember hearing about them back in spring and have been watching and willing them on ever since- I think I’m too invested 😆 (if that’s possible!)

@Plibber

I had heard a while ago that MIT had managed to correctly identify people with covid just by listening to them coughing (even if they were asymptomatic and had to force a cough) - with ridiculously high accuracy:

news.mit.edu/2020/covid-19-cough-cellphone-detection-1029

Well, now Cambridge is doing similar research and you can enrol to help by downloading an app onto your phone and coughing into it:

www.covid-19-sounds.org/en/

Wow that's amazing! Added to the clever doggies that can sniff out Covid! 🐶

@TheChineseChicken when we read stuff that seems like a set back or a downer I find it helps to take a breath and think there's thousands of advances in medicine and technology that have these moments and we don't notice coz a) we're not usually so desperate b) the world's spotlight isn't shining on it!