Good news part 7

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

For all your vaccine news, treatment development stories and other positive things to make you feel there is hope for the future!
Good news only please!

Useful websites we are referring to a lot:

Government daily statistics

Worldometer for international case number comparisons

Covid Messenger for local authority figures, thanks to LittleOwl for all her hard work!

OurWorldInData international vaccination figures

Omnicalculator vaccine queue calculator NB Please don’t take this too seriously- it depends what vaccine delivery speed and uptake you estimate so it’s not written in stone.

2020CanDoOne - that's a good video. I hope it reassures people.

Yes, I WhatsApp call her but she gets upset as she thinks you're really there. My parents have managed to continue to meet her outside, but with carers and my children, we would have exceeded the rule of six and she lives too far away for me to leave the children behind, so it's just not been workable to see her. I'm interested to see how they actually get a needle in her, but that's their problem, not mine!


Florian Krammerr*

@florian_krammer

Replying to
@florian_krammer
11) And then there is the data from Moderna and the NIH Vaccine Research Center from today. This is also pseudotype particle neutralization with the full B.1.1.7 spike. Basically no impact. https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.427948v1.full.pdf

So it looks like the Modena and Pfizer could still be in the high 8os to protect against South African strain which is amazing. Does anyone know what about Oxford one?

29744 cases estimated by Zoe today

(Just to clarify , there estimates are no good at local level but they seem to be there or thereabouts at a national level)

@InterfectoremVulpes

29744 cases estimated by Zoe today

(Just to clarify , there estimates are no good at local level but they seem to be there or thereabouts at a national level)

Definitely agree on the local basis - my towns rapid magical rise by over 4000 cases last week appears to have returned to the lower levels of the previous week today

Yeah, my yowns up and down like a yoyo!

Vaccination England

Region of Residence 1st dose 2nd dose Cumulative Total Doses to Date
Total 5,962,544 443,010 6,405,554

East Of England 742,018 53,658 795,676
London 647,171 55,866 703,037
Midlands 1,124,204 67,322 1,191,526
North East And Yorkshire 961,478 71,777 1,033,255
North West 828,920 63,803 892,723
South East 944,635 76,626 1,021,261
South West 679,484 53,662 733,146

Sorry that messed up - 6.405 million doses now.

I make that about 236k vax in England (not UK) yesterday.

Place marking. Thanks to all posters for keeping this going. It's my favourite fix.

UK first doses @6,573,570

@FourTeaFallOut That might be from yesterday?

I just assumed the dashboard would have updated by now.

@FourTeaFallOut

I just assumed the dashboard would have updated by now.

I keep hitting refresh too. 😆

Yeah, running late today

6,853,327 first doses now, so thats just under 300k?

279,757 first doses given

Wow, not bad. Is anyone doing a rolling average on these figures?

Cases are down again too. Unfortunately deaths are up again but that could partly be due to the weekend reporting lag.

DH and I have been accepted onto the ONS covid study. First home visit tomorrow morning.

It feels good to be doing something positive after all these months of being told what a burden we are!

Has anyone else done the ONS thing?

Ooh do you know what it involves Fuzzy ?

@InterfectoremVulpes

Cases are down again too. Unfortunately deaths are up again but that could partly be due to the weekend reporting lag.

Take a look at the "data" tab. Deaths have actually been pretty consistent 1,100 per day approx for a couple of weeks now.

True, it smooths out a bit when they are shown by date of death. Hopefully will start heading downwards soon as we must be at the tail end of the peak in cases driving this rate?

Ooh do you know what it involves Fuzzy ?
First visit is a longer one as there are consent forms etc to fill in. And blood tests (I think for antibody detection)
Then regular swab tests.

I'll let you know when it's happened. (We signed up last September and thought we'd been thoroughly forgotten about!)