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.

J and J jab 66% effective with one dose:

www.ft.com/content/d05c7c57-da11-42a1-aa33-b66052c904ac

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

I think if you are feeling worried about new variants and efficiency you should click on that interview with the AZ CEO on last page.

He is very sensible and reassuring about most the issues people have panicked or shit stirred this week.

It’s the old thing of bad news affecting you a million times more than good. I don’t even know who these people on Twitter are yet I immediately believe them

[quote cathyandclare]J and J jab 66% effective with one dose:

www.ft.com/content/d05c7c57-da11-42a1-aa33-b66052c904ac[/quote]
Yay!

Another one!

Just came here to see which of us would have posted this first!

@farmerswifey2

Yesterday was the first time since last year that our county, Ceredigion (mid-Wales) hasn't recorded a single new coronavirus case. We've also turned green on the Gov.uk map!

Wonderful. My local authority has had some days in single figures recently. I have to say, I wonder how the areas with very low numbers are going to feel about the plan to drop the tier system. If it carries on dropping at this rate (a big if I know) we will start to see zeros like in the summer and it will be hard to justify this level of restriction.

Eric Idle has had the vaccine!!!

[quote louisejxxx]Apologies, that was the wrong one, here we go:

vimeo.com/138995089[/quote]
OMG, that is bloody brilliant - my inner child is going to spend the day believing that it’s completely true 💕🦒💕

Hope your son has had fun doing the commentary - things have certainly moved on from the stuff I did at school many moons ago!

Does anyone know when we are likely to get the J snd J vaccine? I know we have 30million on order but wondered when we are likely to get it once approved?

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Do you mean the statistics thread ChineseChicken? New variant stuff? Don’t forget what Oxford woman said about how quickly vaccines can be reconfigured for new variants (48 hours, wasn’t it?)

While this is true, they have to take time to manufacture the tweaked vaccine, which will probably take some months.

Just to flag that with all these vaccine figures and all the worries over decreased efficacy, the headline figure relates to actually catching covid at all.

Even for those who are infected, it's statistically much less serious.

For example, the J&J vaccine is "66% effective" BUT it's ALSO 100% effective (in the data so far) in preventing hospitalization and death.

Looks like it's going to be a 400k + day for the UK vaccinations.

The (other) good news about the J&J is that the EU have ordered 400million. Clearly they are very reliant on this.

I did my first volunteer shift at our small pharmacy based vaccine hub today. Approximately 3 people are booked in every 5 minutes, so lets say approximately 400 people a day!

Everyone I checked in today was in the over 70s group and thrilled to be getting their jab.

We're getting their guys!

400 people a day is fab @HalfDutchGirl

I thought pharmacies would be doing 50 a day tops!

@Frazzled2207 I was amazed at the numbers!

In my five hour shift I checked in approximately 35 people and there are four of us checking in. There were three clinicians giving the jab and they didn't stop!

@Level75

Just to flag that with all these vaccine figures and all the worries over decreased efficacy, the headline figure relates to actually catching covid at all.

Even for those who are infected, it's statistically much less serious.

For example, the J&J vaccine is "66% effective" BUT it's ALSO 100% effective (in the data so far) in preventing hospitalization and death.

Thanks @Level75 that's actually a really good point! I will have to remember that when anyone is worried about efficiency.

This is almost my fave post of the day but the baby owl just topped it 😊

Americans have given out 22 million vaccines, they give them to people with allergies (not previous severe reactions to vaccines) and they are not seeing a lot of bad reactions, just sore arms. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/01/28/covid-19-vaccines-cdc-safety-data-pfizer-moderna-coronavirus/4281434001/

EU approval of AstraZeneca in all adults over the age of 18 🥳

EU drugs regulator approves AstraZeneca vaccine www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55862233

So nothing about "not for the over 65s" for Europe then?

No, nothing about it at all. Licensed for all adults.

I'm going to leave it at that on this good news thread and take my chundering elsewhere.

Chuntering - maybe autocorrect knows something I don't

The CEO of AZ also said about the 100% against serious illness

Oxford University conducted the so-called Oxford trial in UK and Brazil, and we have data for patients who received the vaccine in one-month interval, 2 or 3 months interval. First of all, we believe that the efficacy of one dose is sufficient: 100 percent protection against severe disease and hospitalisation, and 71-73 percent of efficacy overall. The second dose is needed for long term protection. But you get a better efficiency if you get the 2nd dose later than earlier.

Speaking aboutthe new variants he has said before yo remember the efficiency being lower is not everything. Basically yes you would be slightly more likely to catch it. However the vaccines would still very likely prevent you from being seriously ill. That is what the expectation is so far.

@HalfDutchGirl

I did my first volunteer shift at our small pharmacy based vaccine hub today. Approximately 3 people are booked in every 5 minutes, so lets say approximately 400 people a day!

Everyone I checked in today was in the over 70s group and thrilled to be getting their jab.

We're getting their guys!

Marvellous stuff

Looks like about 444k vaccines today. A lot better.

I don't k ow whether this counts as good news, but I signed up for the convalescent plasma donations, and I have my first appointment in 2 weeks.
Nice to feel like I'm doing something useful.