Good News - Thread 13. 40/30s and onwards to the roaring 20s.

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@TruelyWonder

Great news from Oxford on B.1.617.2 the India variant.

Slight reduction in neutralisation, in line with 2.9x seen for P.1 from Brazil.

This is only slightly higher than the 2.6x seen for B.1.117 from United Kingdom

Far less than the 9x seen with B.1.351 from South Africa

Well done if you understand all of that. Basically the vaccines should work ok on the India variant. Something like they currently do on the Brazilian variant I think it means

Boom!

Thank god for this thread.

I was able to book my 2nd jab 8 weeks after my 1st yesterday. I'm 46 and didn't think I'd be able to but I put my details into to the booking website out of curiosity and got a date in June. I'd rather go to the same GP centre as I had the first but I just want it done (even with a needle phobia!).

That’s brilliant news @PinkSparklyPussyCat

Sorry think I missed posts about family members receiving vaccines - so nice to see (such a Pollyanna !)

@TruelyWonder

Great news from Oxford on B.1.617.2 the India variant.

Slight reduction in neutralisation, in line with 2.9x seen for P.1 from Brazil.

This is only slightly higher than the 2.6x seen for B.1.117 from United Kingdom

Far less than the 9x seen with B.1.351 from South Africa

Well done if you understand all of that. Basically the vaccines should work ok on the India variant. Something like they currently do on the Brazilian variant I think it means

But SAGE said

(c+p loads of stuff from SAGE minutes)

I am confused about that because of the clots issue. They won't be able to give it to younger people like we thought would they?

Oh yes, I had forgotten about the J&J clot issue 🤦🏼‍♀️

Still think a single jab would be ideal for unis and colleges to give out on site to their students, but thats like to be a non starter now

I am stupid. Shared that Times article with DSis.

Immediate intense and prolonged doom. "It won't work and it's everywhere already".

Is this whole thing making anyone else reassess how much time they want to spend with some people?

I have no problem with hearing people's worries, but the more doom I hear it just makes me think, do I want to be around you...

@TeenMinusTests when were you due to have your second jab? I'm in category 6 and due second on 19th June but hoping it might be brought forward now.

DH (60s) & I (50s) both had jabs booked in half term, so start June.

BBC news website- Hancock confident jab works on variety. Also said all but 1 admissions in Bolton were people who had not received vaccines. The person was vaccinated was ‘frail’.

So that fits with cracking on with arms out !

*variant

Pollyanna’s we are not doomed.

Continued thanks to everyone for the links. Nothing specific to add myself, but I'm so grateful to be able to pull up this thread every day!

Well I'm feeling a bit more positive today.

From what I can tell the vaccines we have should work against the Indian variant (obviously no vaccine is 100% perfect 100% of the time) and we need to get more and more vaccines into more and more people to help to stop the spread of this variant.

Well they have 4 weeks to get those jabs into arms and get the variant under control. Fingers crossed they can get it done so the roadmap can carry on. The next couple of weeks should give us an idea. Going to keep all my fingers and toes crossed.

One thing to keep in mind is that "we don't know if it works yet" is not the same as "it doesn't work"

Yeah I've got the "bring your second dose forward" text today. London but not problematic surge testy area as far as I know.

DH has been able to move his 2nd dose forward - so happy !

Lurker on these here! Just had my jab, my 15 minutes is up, but I'm quite enjoying the quiet sit down.

Yay namechange must feel great.

Coming back to this thread, as I do when feeling discombobulated. Thank you for perking me up
Please can I check, those of you who have been able to move your 2nd jabs forward, are you in the over 50s top priority groups please? Am late 40s and it’ll be 8 weeks tomorrow, 2nd jab booked in at 11.5 weeks and am wondering if it’s worth trying to change...? Thanks

Yes I'm 53.

I got a text this a.m. with a link. I originally booked my second jab without a text just through the site. It's worth a go I think. If you input your nhs number they know who you are.

Actually, come to think, when I followed the link to change my booking today I had to cancel my original booking first which was disconcerting. So hmm maybe not worth the risk. 🤔

Sorry not very helpful

It would be annoying if you ended up with a later date than your original second dose booking

@Oldtimer2020 I have an underlying condition that qualified me for an earlier jab and thinking the same about the second jab. Just gone onto nhs vaccine website though and saw this message. Don't think I'll risk trying to change it now. Hopefully we'll both get a message soon.

@Oldtimer2020 I posted about this on another thread. I cancelled my second AZ jab to rebook somewhere more local and got offered an appointment at 8 rather than 12 weeks. (Was end of July now end of June). Also booked a second appointment for DH as he didn't have one having had his first at a GP-led centre. He also got booked at 8 weeks. We are both 41 in a low cases area.

DH is 44, cancelled his 11 week appointment and got 8 weeks. Understand it’s a bit eek cancelling first but I don’t think they’ll let people go over 12 weeks - you could phone if this happened ??

Thank you! It’s the cancelling bit that’s freaking me out! Not generally a risk taker....