Good News Part 5. For science, positivity, puffins and daffodils. For anyone who isn't coping with gloom and doom.All aboard Boaty McBoatface!

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New thread for the positive crew. Oldies, lurkers and newbies all welcome. Keep the science and positivity coming.

Love this thread. Placemarking

@BBCONEANDTWO I think a PP said the number to be vaccinated (once you take out under 16's and those who refuse the vaccine) is around 37M

Yeah, depending on the take up. 66m (population) less 19m (under 16s) and the 20% who don't want the vaccine.

@FourTeaFallOut just scrolled all the way back through thread 4 to find it! 

As quoted by you:

I honestly don't think it's insurmountable. When you take out kids and vaccine refusers we have around 37 million to jab. With a double dose vaccine and 2 million doses a week (feasible in a week or two) that's 37 weeks.

That's ignoring the j&j jab that might kick in from March and halving the vaccine schedule from there on in.

Obviously life never works as smoothly as we hope but I don't it will take a year to get to the worried well.

So here we go @FourTeaFallOut

Sorry meant to say here we go to @BBCONEANDTWO !

Don't forget to take off the people already done.

Yay

The best stats to see! (And the only numbers I am now looking at, for my own mental well-being)

@Brunt0n

The best stats to see! (And the only numbers I am now looking at, for my own mental well-being)

That is good

Ah yes you're right! @Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum 😀

And those stats are great to see @Brunt0n

Wow great news on vaccine rates today!
278,943 first doses
9,745 second doses
So the total doses in last 24 hours is 288,688
If you multiply that by 7 you get a weekly rate (if they carry on at this rate) of just over 2 million!
Well done to the NHS, this is just incredible.

Be interesting to see what the uptake stats are by, say, this time next year.

(Just bloody posted all this on the wrong thread instead of here )

More on the 500k jabs a day that breaks the Omni calculator.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/coroanvirus-latest-vaccinations-50000-a-day-drive-protect-vulnerable-covid-830869

This is interesting...

*The 16-page document was initially published online on Wednesday evening, but was swiftly removed.

Ministers are concerned that spelling out the amount of doses which have been obtained will lead other countries to pressurise the manufacturers to divert some of the supplies away from the UK.*

Anyway, great news about the total number of vaccines yesterday, I think I must have had the England only figure.

The www.covidmessenger.com table showing daily cases in councils in England is looking very green folks!

(green means falling cases)

Click the Week-over-Week (W-o-W) column and look at all that green!

156 councils with falling cases w-o-w
159 councils with rising cases w-o-w

That is very different than a few weeks ago when the whole table was red!

It wasnt long

And look at Essex and Kent (click the county column to sort by county and scroll down) - the counties first "hit" with the new variant.

All but one council has falling cases.

What a relief.

Obviously the absolute numbers are still high but it does (hopefully!) mark a very important milestone where things get back under control.

Obviously the absolute numbers are still high but it does (hopefully!) mark a very important milestone where things get back under control.

Brilliant. Bring the green!

@littleowl1

And look at Essex and Kent (click the county column to sort by county and scroll down) - the counties first "hit" with the new variant.

All but one council has falling cases.

What a relief.

Obviously the absolute numbers are still high but it does (hopefully!) mark a very important milestone where things get back under control.

And the one council that doesn't have falling cases was hit later than the others, and the infections are focused in one town. I know because I live in Tendring and the particular part I live in has dropped to under 600/100000 (although it never went much above) and the surrounding areas, which are closer to us than the hotspot (but different council or county). There are also signs that the numbers in Clacton are starting to stabilise, hopefully they'll start dropping in the next few days (think they went back under 2000/100000 in yesterday's numbers). That's the trouble with being such a large, rural district, numbers in one town massively skew the numbers and our district includes 2 large (to those of us that live in the villages) towns, 1 very small town and a multitude of villages.

Oh and the Zoe app is now showing a sharp decrease for Tendring over the last week, from almost 4000 active cases to under 3000, from what i've seen official numbers start to follow a few days later. (might take longer than a few days though as several asymptomatic testing centres have recently opened)

@littleowl1

And look at Essex and Kent (click the county column to sort by county and scroll down) - the counties first "hit" with the new variant.

All but one council has falling cases.

What a relief.

Obviously the absolute numbers are still high but it does (hopefully!) mark a very important milestone where things get back under control.

Looked today after a week's break, and my goodness the difference.

Also noticed the stark contrast of sorting by county. London and Surrey, and South East generally all gone green, red and rising now moved back up to Midlands and North. If it wasn't so horrible, it is fascinating.

I suspect a great many more vaccinations have actually occured than officially counted at this time. There are continuing problems with all the different systems handling this data within the NHS (as always), so expect the actual number to be higher as time goes on, and the data catches up.

It’s like ripples, isn’t it?

The Times is saying all over 50s to be vaccinated by the end of March!
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whitehall-sources-predict-all-over-50s-will-get-covid-vaccine-by-end-of-march-28p9hqz2g

Just to reassure anyone avoiding the news today over scary headlines about the Brazilian variant, I’ve just read a BBC news article and they are confident vaccines will still work. Also we were nice and swift with our travel ban. Avoid the hideous tabloid headlines!

Thanks @SaveWaterDrinkGin the new variants have been troubling me. Each one that occurs is like a click bait / scary headline opportunity.

[quote Crumpetycrump]The Times is saying all over 50s to be vaccinated by the end of March!
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whitehall-sources-predict-all-over-50s-will-get-covid-vaccine-by-end-of-march-28p9hqz2g[/quote]
So my countdown to Easter might be a good one. 11 weeks today is good friday. Whoop.

Of course it's one month now until 15th Feb. We're getting there, slowly, but still getting there.

@Blerg the ‘mutant virus’ headlines always make me laugh. That’s literally what a virus is. We have a new flu jab every winter because the virus mutates without headlines like ‘mutant flu virus on rampage’. Tabloid journo’s eh.