Vaccines' "spectacular impact" on serious disease.

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This has really cheered me up this morning:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56153600

Such good news!! And my younger (early 40s, healthy) brother has just been offered a vaccine tomorrow (SE England), which must mean they're making great progress.

I wonder if they might speed up some of the lifting of restrictions?

This has cheered me up more than actually having the vaccine!

Brilliant news.

Note that the initial figures suggesting that Pfizer was more effective than AZ were likely artifacts of slightly different criteria in the trials.

Both look fantastic at stopping severe illness and almost certainly spread.

Check out Chris van Tulleken on Twitter because he recently posted a really salient thread on this. I’m not clever enough to link to it!

This one?

mobile.twitter.com/DoctorChrisVT/status/1363476673920978944

(To link to something you just need to copy and paste the link from the address bar of your browser, but that might not work if you are using an app to view twitter).

Fabulous hopeful news 🥰

So excited! Having my first dose on Weds exactly a year to the day I was too ill to get out of bed - covid symptoms but didn’t believe it could be as it was ‘only a skier returning to in Brighton’ then...

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

Also note the AZ figures are better than Pfizer.

Where's that poster who used to obsessively post about how the AZ vaccine was barely more effective than sawdust?

I must admit I was slightly disappointed by parents had the Oxford after Mumsnet; now I feel happy

Great news

So good to see it especially for AZ as we are relying on it heavily

Where's that poster who used to obsessively post about how the AZ vaccine was barely more effective than sawdust?

Haha there was a lot of that on here

This is just fantastic, so much better than we could have dared hope for.

Really do hope that bearing this in mind everyone continues to be careful in their contacts for just another couple of months until groups 1-9 are all vaccinated, that will make all the difference to everybody getting out of this nightmare permanently,

SO good 😭👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Although not exactly that surprising, vaccines have always worked & shock horror they do now too..

Well done science! Shame the rest of Europe decided to make it political..