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Good News Thread Number 4. Because that positivity just keeps on coming!

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FuzzyPuffling · 31/12/2020 15:41

Here it is....number four thread of science and positivity!

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 03/01/2021 21:02

@FourTeaFallOut

I have my fingers crossed they don't take too long to get to group four. I know that's spectacularly Machievellian of me but I'm so desperate to get this jab and not be the weakest link in our house.
I’ve heard of more Machiavellian things than this tbh Grin
FourTeaFallOut · 03/01/2021 21:06

Yeah, you say that now, but if there were a call out for a spare sixth dose I'd leave a trail of old folks in my wake.

Bathroom12345 · 03/01/2021 21:15

Sorry to be thick. I cannot see anything in the Telegraph. I have a subscription. Only doom and gloom and they aren’t normally like this. Am I looking in the right place?

chri55ie · 03/01/2021 21:23

@Bathroom12345 it’s in their website under news. Article called ‘the challenges facing Oxford vaccine roll out’

Bathroom12345 · 03/01/2021 21:34

Blimey! That was a bit buried. Boris was not committing to anything very much on the Marr show.

Thank you.

Mynxie · 03/01/2021 21:42

Thank you from me too. This thread is now the only one I read as the rest are just too alarmist for me! The amount of positive but balanced news on here is really reassuring and for the first time in ages I can sleep at night again.

FuzzyPuffling · 03/01/2021 21:50

24 million almost ready to go?
I could cry with happiness at this... that's enough to get CV me done. ( Totally selfishly that makes me inordinately happy). With my dodgy kidneys and auto immune conditions I'd love to feel safer again.
I've not had my hair cut since January, or been in a supermarket since March.
DH ( CEV) and I have been shielding since March 10th and it has been so very hard.

And we've got tickets to see Pete Tong in June at a local festival and I sooo want to go!

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OrangeBananaFish · 03/01/2021 22:02

So the last few posts (I can't have looked as much as I usually do) are saying that we are getting (or have got) a LOT of vaccines available within days and its only another 4 weeks or so until we start to see some effect of these? That is great news and I feel so much better hearing it from this thread rather than the government, I never know if there is a hidden agenda to what the government say sometimes.

Thank you for the posts everyone. Definitely a good mood booster.

BooksAreNotEssentialInWales · 03/01/2021 22:06

I’m clinging onto the fact that the weather improving will massively decrease spread so come March/April the new season along with the vaccine being rolled out should give us breathing space until end of September. By then the vaccine should mean we’re in a much better place in winter 2021. Thanks for the focus on positive news. I truly believe that we’ll turn the corner by Easter.

Spiratedaway · 03/01/2021 22:46

@chri55ie

And Oxford committing to 2m doses a week from mid jan. so I think it sounds good! Just need to get it in peoples arms now!
Omg that is fantastic
Airplanes · 03/01/2021 23:12

Thank god for this thread, the last couple of days put me in a spin. This thread has made me feel so much better. Thank you for the information here

EngineeringFix · 03/01/2021 23:13

The good news on vaccines is rather hidden away yet it had been reported earlier that Oxford AZ would be the game changer and had many doses ready to go once approved.

I think we do have to note that it's believed you may still be able to transmit once vaccinated: it's a vaccination against the disease, not a sterilising vaccine. So masks and distancing will remain. Maybe this is why news is muted: there is no room for complacency on distancing.

tobee · 03/01/2021 23:26

I'm ready!

Good News Thread Number 4. Because that positivity just keeps on coming!
thereplycamefromanchorage · 03/01/2021 23:28

Thank you so much for this thread, it's honestly a bit of a lifesaver just now.

TeaInTheGarden · 03/01/2021 23:29

@chri55ie is that 2million more per week on top of the ones already ready to go? So not including the millions ready to be put into vials?

How quickly can they do this do we think?
If they have 24 million doses almost ready, then vaccinating 2 million per week seems way too slow a target?!

tobee · 03/01/2021 23:31

@EngineeringFix

The good news on vaccines is rather hidden away yet it had been reported earlier that Oxford AZ would be the game changer and had many doses ready to go once approved.

I think we do have to note that it's believed you may still be able to transmit once vaccinated: it's a vaccination against the disease, not a sterilising vaccine. So masks and distancing will remain. Maybe this is why news is muted: there is no room for complacency on distancing.

I think they just don't have evidence on transmission yet. Too early to tell. Plus there are going to be a whole heap of vaccines coming to the finish of their trials soon.

TeaInTheGarden · 03/01/2021 23:34

How long have the 5 million Pfizer diesel been in the country does anyone know? I hate to think it’s here just say waiting..?! Please tel me it arrived today 🙈

ChristmasinJune · 04/01/2021 07:20

@TeaInTheGarden

How long have the 5 million Pfizer diesel been in the country does anyone know? I hate to think it’s here just say waiting..?! Please tel me it arrived today 🙈
They've been quiet about the five million Pfizer haven't they? I wish they'd get in with it now!!!
BBCONEANDTWO · 04/01/2021 08:32

@tobee

I'm ready!
Ha ha - love it!
Brunt0n · 04/01/2021 08:36

bbc.in/3n5qv5K

First Oxford / Az vaccine done! At 7.30 this morning :)

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 04/01/2021 08:40

And Matt Hancock says they are going to remove the anti terrorism training from the requirements for vaccinators...

sashagabadon · 04/01/2021 08:44

Fab news! Smile

Bathroom12345 · 04/01/2021 08:55

Engineering is on the right lines I think. I heard two elderly people behind me the other day in the queue in the supermarket (still no sign of people thinking they should come in singly so we were all out in the rain waiting to go in!) saying that could meet up with friends once they have both had the jabs and wasnt it a shame that they had to wait for the 2nd one!

These are the sorts of people we need to get through to. Still think short sharp ads splashed over the news would help. Some people just need it spelt out to them. Not fancy slides with tiny graphs that just confuse people.

Of course there are the people who just carry on doing their own thing without a thought for anyone else who are really too dense to recognise that its probably going to be THEM that will end up being affected.

Shockingly I also believe that the reason vaccine delivery isnt being reported is because the site then becomes a terrorist target. How awful is that!

Anyway, Oxford is only 25 miles away from me. We are very very proud of you.

I have volunteered to be a steward but have taken to actually writing to the head of my large surgery as I havent heard anything back.

That is for another thread. Red Tape in the NHS....

Hoping that my Mum nearly 90 will get an invite for her one soon. She is London and can get to the surgery under her own steam. I dont want to call the surgery and clog up the phones but it has been awfully quiet.

Honestly having worked with government for many many years - the first few weeks will be quiet. They are not used to working so quickly but they SHOULD become quicker as they see more and more of their colleagues giving out the vaccine. They never want to be first.

I am also thinking - who would we have wanted to run this project in industry? Andy Street? Someone used to the commercial world and used to working fast.

EngineeringFix · 04/01/2021 08:59

True that there is no evidence on transmission. However I was listening to TWIV podcast ( far too much time on my hands at the minute!) by virologists and they were saying that they aren't particularly expecting them to be "sterilising" vaccines as it's not what these vaccines are designed for and is unusual to achieve.

EngineeringFix · 04/01/2021 09:01

Not trying to be miserable though, I still think the vaccines development is si very positive! Just cautious.