Good news Part 9

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Previous thread here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4151264-Good-News-Part-8?pg=37

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.

Good to hear about your Dh lack of side effects. But the really important question is how is George doing?

@tobee

Good to hear about your Dh lack of side effects. But the really important question is how is George doing?

Sorry missed out @FuzzyPuffling

😁😁 to answer your questions, I don't think it was any harder having all those jabs as an adult. They are all spaced out with MMR the last ones. We'd been in a sort of infection- avoiding personal lockdown for 2.5 years while treatment progressed ( it took a year for the donor graft to stick) so we were both just glad to reach another milestone.

And George has spent the day under the dining room table( we think he's traumatised rather than in pain now) but this evening took up his proper place on DH's lap and ate some of my evening cheese. So very happy to see him getting back to normal.

A day in the life of the Pufflings!

I keep hearing/ reading that the ox/az is a bit less effective against the SA variant BUT still massively reduces deaths and hospitalisations, which should be our aim, rather than trying to go for a "no illness at all" scenario.

The other positive about the SA thing that I’ve read, is that the strain is not dominant here at the moment. It doesn’t definitely become dominant just because it’s here- and it may actually be less infectious than “our” variant. So in a weird old way, our variant that caused so much trouble, might actually help protect us from the SA one. (This is just stuff I’ve been reading in Twitter I’m not an expert by any means!)

Oh just see the latest headline as chip paper for now.

The doses were given with a shorter gap. We already know AZ actually works better with a larger gap between doses. By using a 4 week gap they were starting at a lower effectiveness rate against infection anyway.

There is no evidence reduction of hospitalisation and death is altered. This wasn't tested.

We just have to wait for real evidence using the time frames of are current vaccination program

Yes it has definitely been said the transmission is slower

The whole runny nose go for a test thing I find interesting too. Plus cases in south Africa are falling on their own and deaths too. There is a vague possibility that this new south African variant is no way near as much of a problem than the old one.

Just double checking South Africa hadn't started vaccinations yet?

@Blerg has your mum tried to book via the website? She doesn’t need to have received her letter, just be eligible. If there is a hub nearby she can access, she will be able to book.

For more details check out the thread on here “everyone over 70 in England can now book themselves”.

@tobee

Just double checking South Africa hadn't started vaccinations yet?

Interesting isn't it

Thanks for the reassurance on SA variant and AstraZeneca everyone, especially @chri55ie

The Guardian freaked me out by saying they’ve stopped using it in SA, so maybe that is misleading.

@Rainbowqueeen thanks for that, yes we’ve tried the link quite a bit and it still says ineligible.

Meanwhile Richard the data guy on Twitter has remarked

England rolling average of announced deaths has dropped 24% in a week. Currently looking like a steeper drop than back in April (albeit from a higher level).

@TeaInTheGarden

The other positive about the SA thing that I’ve read, is that the strain is not dominant here at the moment. It doesn’t definitely become dominant just because it’s here- and it may actually be less infectious than “our” variant. So in a weird old way, our variant that caused so much trouble, might actually help protect us from the SA one. (This is just stuff I’ve been reading in Twitter I’m not an expert by any means!)

I like this theory a lot

Thanks for the thread - checking in for positivity.

My personal positive news is my 18 year old took her nan for her vaccine this weekend. She passed her driving test in September and this has been her first opportunity to give her nan a lift.

@nex18

My personal positive news is my 18 year old took her nan for her vaccine this weekend. She passed her driving test in September and this has been her first opportunity to give her nan a lift.

Oh @nex18 that's so lovely. The thought of that had made me well up a bit. Really lovely that your DD can help for a trip like that.

'Many of the front pages focus on the future of the UK's vaccine rollout, after early trials suggested the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine offered minimal protection against mild disease from the variant first discovered in South Africa. The i says current vaccines, including the Oxford jab, still offer "vital" protection against serious illness but updates will enhance its ability to tackle the South Africa variant. The NHS is planning an annual campaign of booster injections to tackle new strains of the virus, the paper reports.'

Have had a couple of days away from anything to do with Covid, am now back to secure my seat on the positivity express!

I wish I could quarantine news headlines for 3 days in the shad thr way people were doing with their post in lockdown 1. They come out with some 'the vaccine doesn't work' headline that then gets diluted and diluted to 'actually it still stops you getting very ill and anyway the study wasn't well done, small group, short interval etc' and it turns out the sky isn't falling after all.

I got my 2nd dose of sinopharm yesterday too.

We need to sit tight. (Although I appreciate we have been for rather a while already)

Love the chicken little reference 🐓

Feels like this at the moment

Indirect good news from BioNTech via their Covid vaccine work:-

Sorry bit truncated but I don't want to risk another screenshot fiasco 🧐

😂😂😂

I was reading about a illegal immigrant amnesty they have planned. To get them vaccinated. Else obviously they won't get done.

I think it makes sense really