Good News Part 8

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Previous thread here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4144814-Good-news-part-7?watched=1&msgid=104169501#104169501

Useful links:

coronavirus.data.gov.uk

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

www.covidmessenger.com. thanks to LittleOwl for all her hard work!

ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk
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.

Happy birthday to your daughter for tomorrow Eek. Maybe she'd like a birthday treat around September? (I know I'm hoping for one, but I do every year. January birthdays suck!)

Noo fred!

wednesdayalltheway mindymomo

You don't need the letter and if you don't know your NHS number you can just enter your name, dob and postcode and the system can find you that way.

Placemarkkng.
Sadly my parents live in the in the EU so a long wait for a vaccine while if they lived here, it would be pretty soon.
Positive signs that the vaccine is starting to bring cases down!

Saw this and decided it summed up our group very well

Not entirely good news, and an odd one, but I'm not on other threads.

A link to the staff vaccine booking page for my hospital trust has been circulating on WhatsApp! The accompanying message said that the link was to book on for leftover doses and was available for teachers and police and encouraging circulation of the link.

I went through the whole booking process and booked first and second jabs without any checks of my entitlement (I'm not entitled). It definitely wasn't signing up for a list to be called back at the end of a day if they had surplus jabs. I obviously cancelled straight away.

The booking confirmation emails did provide a list of things to bring (like a face mask) which included NHS ID. However, even if I'd turned up and been turned away due to a lack of ID (which may well not have happened), those slots I'd booked were no longer available for those in genuine need of them.

I suppose the good news part is that I went through the whole process as DH knows relevant very senior people at the hospital trust and has emailed them to flag the issue. It might be a little complicated to sort, but as a minimum the booking site should have a huge 'staff only' warning. It was reasonably obvious to me it was for staff but not obvious enough that people couldn't claim to have been unaware.

Hopefully DH's emails will stop the problem.

Parents have their jabs on Thursday woo

level75 that is so crap, but very good that you and your DH have tried to sort it. I have no prob with teachers or the police getting jabs, but all in good time. The priority list is there for a reason.

Nearly at the end of January, and February usually feels like such a short month so we’ll soon be in Spring (and I’ll try to forget that we usually go on holiday in March).

Not necessarily good news, but this did make me chuckle.

The weather has been vile today, and I’ve been bored, so have been surfing the Internet a lot.

Apparently, last night, around 100 people were fined in France for breaking curfew, not social distancing and not wearing masks. It was at a sex party in a warehouse 😂

And there was me thinking I was edgy for taking a walk round a friend’s horse fields which obviously aren’t classed as a public space!

Just to say that vaccine booking link (and comments from previous posters) helped my mum, dad and MIL (all over 70) to book their jabs for next week without having had letters. There were loads of slots available and a choice of locations - amazing. I love this thread!

Thanks to everyone who has posted about it.

@level75 are you in the South East? Heard of something similar

I'm just shocked that a staff booking page is able to be used on the open Internet without having to use some kind of staff log-in in or password!

@TJ17

Saw this and decided it summed up our group very well

Exactly 😊

@InterfectoremVulpes

I'm just shocked that a staff booking page is able to be used on the open Internet without having to use some kind of staff log-in in or password!

I think the problem is that people who are given the link shouldn't really be sharing it. I also think it's come out quickly mistakes have been made. The other problem is that if you end up having phone appointments you need to 'man' it and that's a lot of manpower.

Just discovered this lovely data page; lots of pretty graphs all going in the right direction

data.spectator.co.uk/city/national

We’ve seen all the data in other places but I thought this was one of the best presentations.

@Littlebelina, no North East

@NeedingCoffee nice graphs!

@NeedingCoffee thanks for that link. I never thought I'd be recommending the spectator but I've found their coverage during the whole pandemic quite positive/realistic and not sensationalist. I get an email every day with a summary of their coverage and I've found it pretty useful.

Yay new graphs 👍❤

That will keep me busy for a bit

Hi all, great to see another thread started - here’s to the good news getting bigger and better! And thank heavens January is nearly over, I swear it’s lasted well over a year!

Thank you thank you thank you for this group. Just got shielding mum and over 70s dad appts for monday at our local hospital for vaccinations thanks to the advice on here. Literally rang them at 1130pm and ran through it with them. They are over the moon. Mum says she doesnt think she'll be able to sleep as so happy. Love you all. 💕

@HalfDutchGirl

Hi all, great to see another thread started - here’s to the good news getting bigger and better! And thank heavens January is nearly over, I swear it’s lasted well over a year!

Yes definitely the longest January ever

Placemarking

Another screenshot from The (Sunday) Times:-

Well done them. So totally awesome ❤

Though I wish the papers would stop comparing us to other countries. (Well maybe Germany and their normal efficiency I don't mind😂) It doesn't help stop the drama does it.