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

[FuzzyPuffling]

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

Lol, chinese. Anyway it means quicker vaccinations for people who do want it.

That guardian article couldn't be more miserable if it tried. Talk about how to take a positive story and drown it in negatives.

@EngineeringFix

That guardian article couldn't be more miserable if it tried. Talk about how to take a positive story and drown it in negatives.

Absolutely!

[quote FourTeaFallOut]I haven't seen any concrete figures. Last week the Guardian reported that the uptake has been high. If the Guardian couldn't find a way to engineer some doubt into the equation, I can only image it must have been very high indeed.

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/29/covid-vaccine-uptake-high-despite-concerns-over-hesitancy[/quote]
This made me laugh

I didn’t read it but yes if The Guardian can’t kill it with negativity then no one can. Oh except on here - doomers can kill anything

@EngineeringFix

That guardian article couldn't be more miserable if it tried. Talk about how to take a positive story and drown it in negatives.

Standard

@FourTeaFallOut

Wait, I've already got the headline...

Johnson and Johnson: No More Tiers.

I like reading articles like that in the Guardian, and in my head, adding the words 'but it isn't' or 'but actually it's all fine' after every single paragraph. They should write news like this! Try it, it's fun .

@FuzzyPuffling

The MHRA have said they are upping staffing so they can get batches of OxAZ approved much more quickly - in 5 days rather than 20.

(Sorry, I read it in the Daily Fail. Sorry sorry sorry. Also an interesting article there by a German journalist saying how much the UK is doing than the EU. Sorry.)

I read the German journalists article too. It definitely gives a different view of our achievements and the problems of being in EU when it comes to getting hold of the vaccine.

I’m naturally a guardian reader but it’s so negative ... I buy the Times at the weekend sometimes for a bit of a different take on things

@Sebw

Just out of interest, has anyone heard what the uptake of the vaccine is. So how many are having it vs refusing. Fingers crossed most are having it.

Don't know that but apparently some over 80s are now saying they want the England vaccine not the American one

Can't imagine that will be many people though.

2.08% vaccinated in Scotland now

‘Don't know that but apparently some over 80s are now saying they want the England vaccine not the American oneconfused’

That’s such a Daily Mail story

I wonder how much we can correlate vaccine preference with newspaper readership- Oxford for the Little Englander Mail readers and Pfizer for Guardianistas because anything British must be crap!

Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered bbc.in/3pSLvOI

[quote Pinkcadillac]Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered bbc.in/3pSLvOI[/quote]
Exactly what I came on to share @Pinkcadillac. Good news! Although I’m struggling a bit with the 1/12 being a quarter of patients

It's a quarter of the 36% stated in the article. I had to read it a few times to get there!

Maybe it works for a quarter of people but some of them can get the same improvement from other drugs so they reckon it will save 1 in 12?

Ignore me, IncludeWomen makes more sense!

BBC news have just said 1.6m have had first dose. And obviously people are getting their second dose - Lionel Blair has just been talking about getting his second injection at Epsom racecourse.

#Nearly 36% of intensive care Covid patients receiving standard care died
#The new drugs reduced that by a quarter, to 27%, when given to patients within 24 hours of entering intensive care

So, you need to give it to 12 patients, 64% would have got better without it, and of the remaining who otherwise would die - 7% don't die as a result of it - but that's pulling a quarter back from the inevitable.

It's an odd way to report it.

No, I've written that backwards.

Of the 36% who would inevitably die, a quarter are saved by it but that only represents 7% of people sat in an ICU bed right now.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

‘Don't know that but apparently some over 80s are now saying they want the England vaccine not the American oneconfused’

That’s such a Daily Mail story

I wonder how much we can correlate vaccine preference with newspaper readership- Oxford for the Little Englander Mail readers and Pfizer for Guardianistas because anything British must be crap!

You have a point

I heard Angela Raynor on the radio this morning saying completely obvious things that I am 100% sure are already being done, but I thought it’s a positive if Labour are keen to get on the airwaves talking about the roll out as they must think it will be a success so are keen to be associated with it as much as possible or it’ll be a success without them
Politics aside it is actually great to see both major parties pushing in the same direction

Yes it’s great Starmer is reiterating message

If people won’t take a Cons message they can have the same wrapped up in Labour

@MarshaBradyo

Yes it’s great Starmer is reiterating message

If people won’t take a Cons message they can have the same wrapped up in Labour

Exactly! It’s a win either way

@FuzzyPuffling

BBC news have just said 1.6m have had first dose. And obviously people are getting their second dose - Lionel Blair has just been talking about getting his second injection at Epsom racecourse.

That will help convince some of the oldies it is ok. He was once much loved after all.