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.

Love this thread!! Thank you!

[quote MarcelineMissouri]More numbers on hospitalisations in Israel

www.timesofisrael.com/israel-sees-60-drop-in-hospitalizations-for-over-60s-in-weeks-after-vaccination/[/quote]
Love this, thank you. It's so good to see the vaccines doing their thing.

Following

Can't believe I placed my bet on Monday to pass the 6 million mark. Looks like this 'blind optimist' needs to up her game.

@FourTeaFallOut

Can't believe I placed my bet on Monday to pass the 6 million mark. Looks like this 'blind optimist' needs to up her game.

Better to be proven wrong because the target has been hit faster than slower

Absolutely

Thanks for the positivity all, this thread is my lifeline these days. I keep finding myself falling down rabbit holes on other threads when I'm feeding the baby in the middle of the night and it's really starting to get to me.

On a sort of positive note my Dad who's 73 has an appointment for vaccine on Friday but is waiting to be unblinded on the novavax trial. They've said if he's had the trial vaccine he can't have both. Worries me a bit as we don't know the efficacy of the novavax. They recruited a lot of older people, so I really hope it's equally as effective as feels pretty unfair to be in a worse position by volunteering in the first place. I guess we wait and see.

@Gastonimo
I'm also a volunteer on the novavax trial. Everything I have read is extremely optimistic.
I'd certainly prefer to have had two doses of novavax rather than get offered one dose of another and not know when the next was coming.

At this stage, , stage 3 trials , I'd be confident the norovax is useful

@midgebabe and @frazzled2207 very good points thank you 😊

@Gastonimo
I'd be interested to hear if he had the real thing or not. I had absolutely zero side effects not even a sore arm so convinced I had the placebo

And thanks for being on the trial

Thank you for this lovely thread!

Feeling so much more optimistic with the vaccination numbers. Thanks for this thread.

Somebody show me some good news that takes my mind off the truly terrifying thread I just saw which says schools not reopening until September?!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9179677/Israeli-healthcare-group-says-coronavirus-infections-plunged-vaccinated-60s.html

Headline:

Proof the Pfizer Covid vaccine works in the real world? Israeli healthcare group says coronavirus infections have PLUNGED by at least 60% among vaccinated over-60s

Have a look at today’s government update if you want good news. Everything is going in the right direction: vaccinations up, cases, hospitalisations and even death numbers falling today (weekly rolling averages for the last 3).

This is the only thread I'm reading from now on!

@Reachersloveinterest

Somebody show me some good news that takes my mind off the truly terrifying thread I just saw which says schools not reopening until September?!

I don't understand how anyone could sensibly reason this. I think the thing to remember is nobody knows, it's all conjecture.

I understand how stressful those threads are, they make my anxiety shoot through the roof.

This thread on Twitter just really really cheered me up. It’s a bit maths heavy, but the graphs are excellent. First projection I’ve seen for the impact of the vaccine. It’s all just a projection and could be wrong, but for us positive thinkers it’s just what we need to see and hold on to right now.

twitter.com/bristoliver/status/1353270197935812608

And if you don’t want to read the working out bit, just look a this graph and smile before you go to sleep tonight ☺️

I lost you all! And only just realised. I've been so anxious this last week and I know it's from all the things I've been reading on here.

Thanks @TeaInTheGarden for the lovely graph!

Marking me place again. Wow cant belive it's thread 7 now 😊

This thread is great, thanks everyone, I'm glad I'm here, woohoo.

Has anyone seen this vac counter? No idea how accurate it is as it's going up rapidly and I don't think anyone is doing 24 vaccinations but it looks exciting!

covidvax.live/location/gbr