Good News part 11 - Picnics galore as we head into spring

[OrangeBananaFish]

Hope no-one minds me starting this. Apologies if another has started too. Please can someone add the pretty pictures.

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.

Please note, this is a thread to share good news and for wobblers to be reassured. Doomploppers will be met with scorn and derision!

I thought they had slowed down too, but all I could think of was saying that deaths and cases have gone down again. I do think it's like you have said, now we are coming out there is no actual extra good news so it is becoming the norm. Suppose that's good news in itself

The immune response to COVID-19 vaccines in patients with certain immunosuppressed conditions is set to be examined in a new study.

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-new-study-to-examine-vaccine-responses-in-patients-with-impaired-immune-systems-12233737

No doom headlines to correct or reassure people about etc

I think that is part of why the thread is slower

That and the weather finally got a bit better. People are going out for walks or gardening again

2 more days of home school!!
That’s definitely good news 😆

@TeaInTheGarden

2 more days of home school!! That’s definitely good news 😆

Definitely a good news story 🥳

I can't get the link to work (advice welcome for a newbie!)

Strong T-cell response is good news for battle against Covid variants

twitter.com/FT/status/1367123846457917450

My area has "gone white" on the cases map. My DF is over his infection and I'm taking my mum for a coffee on Monday. 🙂

I’m so excited because my home schooling days are done! They have a no screen day today for World Book Day, and tomorrow they are in school,

Don’t know how I’ve survived a 2nd stint of home Ed...when we got to the summer hols I said “never again” 😅🤪

Here’s my good news run down:

1. Vaccination programme is going really well
2. Numbers are looking great and starting to really plummet
3. Transmission data for vaccines is looking incredible
4. As posted above, vaccine T cell responses look promising against variants
5. The scary Manaus case study, where it looked like they had reached herd immunity then everyone got reinfected (I paraphrase) has been debunked
6. It’s spring
7. I only have to do 0.5 days more homeschool
8. I have an itinerary of lovely things to do over summer, to the point where I feel too busy (oh, the irony)

1. I’ve just snuck into the next group for vaccines after group 9

I love your summary The Chinese chicken. That's lots of good news!

Considering this time last year most of us really had no concept of how serious the covid situation was going to be, we’ve come a long way

I missed the Manaus good news- could someone please point me in the right direction?

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

I missed the Manaus good news- could someone please point me in the right direction?

This is what I saw yesterday

mobile.twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1367142419188350976

Same

Today is my last ever day of home schooling!!!!

That's positive news if ever I heard it.

Can someone post an ‘incredible’ transmission link? (Can’t look too much as meant to be home schooling - ugh)

Thanks very much CornishYarg. Love Sailorroscout!

Link working now, no idea why it didn't before!

mobile.twitter.com/FT/status/1367123846457917450

Can anyone help me find a table, please? It was on the efficacy of the Oxford vaccine, I think based on the Scottish rollout. It was a very simple table - two columns, perhaps four lines.

The left hand column was 'types' of covid (asymptomatic/symptomatic/serious/death or similar) and the right-hand was the protection given by one jab against each of those.

I know I've seen it or followed a link to it from a mumsnet thread somewhere, probably this one, but I now can't find it.

Thankyou!

@JemimaPyjamas

Can someone post an ‘incredible’ transmission link? (Can’t look too much as meant to be home schooling - ugh)

This was the one www.standard.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-results-public-health-england-b921793.html

Thank you!

Twitter @HugoGye

NHS England weekly stats published to 28th Feb. 1st dose has gone to:

95% of over-80s

100% of 75-79
95% of 70-74
85% of 65-69
21% of under-65s

93% of frontline NHS staff
88% of clinically extremely vulnerable
91% of older care residents
71% of care staff

@Reachersloveinterest

Today is my last ever day of home schooling!!!!

That's positive news if ever I heard it.

Fuck yes! 🍻

@Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum

Twitter *@HugoGye*

NHS England weekly stats published to 28th Feb. 1st dose has gone to:

95% of over-80s

100% of 75-79
95% of 70-74
85% of 65-69
21% of under-65s

93% of frontline NHS staff
88% of clinically extremely vulnerable
91% of older care residents
71% of care staff

Ok, which greedy 75-79 year olds have had two first doses?