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

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

John Campbell on YouTube- he did a great positive video yesterday

Love John Campbell too!

Such a positive video.
It’s frustrating to hear people continually claim there will be no lasting immunity and antibodies don’t last blah blah. There’s so much we don’t know but I do think the fact that people still have T-cell immunity 17 years later from SARS is so encouraging.

I think t-cells are important here too. That study is very encouraging and more so for vaccines!

1.3 million people vaccinated in UK (figures just out!) Daily figures to be reported from Monday (source - coronavirus good news Twitter!)

Daily figures to be reported from Monday

That would be great.

Apparently over a quarter of over 80s have received the first dose of the vaccine

Listening to press conference I’m reminded again how lucky we are to have such good scientific knowledge and scientists up against this

John Campbell is brilliant! His vlogs on Youtube are so calm and he explains everything so well. His vlogs and thus thread are whats getting me through right now.

1 in 4 over 80s is very good

I was watching the press conference too - I think Whitty spoke very well and was very reassuring. I liked his explanation of how we will lower the risk the virus poses over time until we reach a stage where Covid is like flu. Yes people will still die but it will be a manageable amount and society won't need to act in the way we don't act with flu. People have voiced similar on here and had a good ticking off and have been told it's devastating when 90 year olds die. He was saying about some measures possibly being needed next winter but I could cope with that if things are drastically different to now and it was a short term thing. He was also saying he thought the vaccination timeframe was realistic and I think he can err on the side of pessmimism in some ways, so that's a huge positive. It was all reassuring at a time when cases are clearly rising.

I like listening to Chris Whitty - he explains things in very clear terms.

Chris Witty is the man.

@Benjispruce2

Chris Witty is the man.

I’m a Van Tam girl personally. He has the best analogies. ❤️

Yes love Chris. I hope he gets proper public recognition when this is over. At least a Sir, if not a Lord. He’d be great in the house of Lords in a few years. We need more scientists in there. Bet that would embarrass him though and he’d turn it down.

Yes Sir would suit him

Why oh why do I keep looking at the other threads?! I missed the press conference so came in here for the latest and there’s some scaremongerer putting a completely different slant on what Chris Whitty said 😡 I’m grateful to the posters on here for providing a balanced view.

And my positive for the day is that both teen DC’s had a full school day of live lessons which they both engaged with (after the initial trauma of dragging them out of bed on time for them this morning!).

@Inastatus I watched the entire presser and came away feeling very positive esp from
Whitty. And then I dipped in on the general corona board

@tootyfruitypickle - I’m definitely hiding it! Glad to hear you thought the press conference was positive - let’s just listen to the experts from now on eh?

Also Vallance was very calm and positive about adapting vaccines to mutations - didn’t seem like an issue at all and was expected

I didn’t know there was a presser today. Just a general update?

Just popped on to say I've had my 1st vaccine.
Sorry not read thread as I am avoiding MN.. but maybe I need this thread !

Chris Whitty is fabulous, people are being vile on the other thread of doom sadly.

Well done pomegranate. Pfizer or Oxford?

Should have added
This will be the new divide in society!
Brexit/ remain is so 2020