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

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New thread 😊

I’m finding it strange that teenagers spreading it in schools is now such a big deal - surely that’s always happened? And school kids went back in March and we didn’t actually see a big increase in cases. But now they’re doing more testing of course we will!

It’s feeling a bit like the media are clutching at straws to give us something to worry about now.

Obviously it’s not ideal that the virus is still out the and spreading through schools, I just think it’s nothing new surely 🤪

It's clearly spreading in schools because the vaccines have reduced the spread in the community. Or have I made that up?
My 12 year old has never once moaned about all the distancing, masks, screwed up year 6, rubbish experience in year 7, not being allowed to see her friends, trying to educate herself via a smartphone. I feel for her age group, and yet some people view them as germ-filled pariahs.

I really feel for them too. I can’t imagine what it must be like to miss out on seeing friends, having to wear a mask all day, missing prom, missing all the fun and parties and exams!

You only get your youth once - it’s awful that they’ve had to miss out.

I feel for uni students too, missing out on that proper experience which is so helpful for life skills.

DS 26 vaccine booked for Thursday. Also didn’t ever think twice about having it. Second one not til end of August which seems a long way off.
This age group just want to be free to travel and socialise and see the vaccine as the route to this. The ones I know have also been very careful to protect their parents abs grandparents from infection

Nicola Sturgeon just said that at the height of the pandemic, 10% of those with Covid were admitted to hospital. Recent figures suggest that now it's only 5% ! Also average length of stay in hospital reducing.
Vaccines working!

Good news from NI - for the first time since August 2020, there are no patients with COVID in ICU!

@mrsfeatherbottom

Good news from NI - for the first time since August 2020, there are no patients with COVID in ICU!

That is totally awesome ❤

Scientific breakthroughs in finding drugs to help seriously ill patients, such as dexamethasone and budesonide, have also helped the death rate in intensive care halve since January, dropping from 40 per cent of all those admitted to less than 20 per cent.

Covid patients made up three quarters of all ICU patients in January but this has tumbled to just one in five

The average age of patients being admitted to hospital has plunged by a decade to below 50 for the first time during the pandemic, thanks to vaccines protecting millions of vulnerable older people who were prioritised in Britain's inoculation roll-out. And this is likely to drop further once those second doses are done for 50s then 40s.

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Yay for all the good news 🥳🥳🥳

From the BBC website:

About 8 in 10 adults in the UK had antibodies to coronavirus by 17 May, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.

The figures are 83% for adults in Wales, 80% in England and Northern Ireland and a slightly lower 73% for Scotland.

They're up from 77% for Wales, 76% for England, 75% for Northern Ireland and 69% for Scotland - the week before.

Antibodies are evidence of vaccination or past infection

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@TruelyStruttingHotpants so technically does that mean herd immunity...?! 🤞

[quote Cafeaulait27]@TruelyStruttingHotpants so technically does that mean herd immunity...?! 🤞[/quote]
Depends who you talk too.

I think with the new variant we still need 5% on top

However once the 18 to 29s are jabbed with first and the teenagers have had this latest case rise. We hopefully have this sorted. I am fingers crossed for my the end of June we have enough people with antibodies to really stem this new wave.

@TruelyStruttingHotpants

From the BBC website:

About 8 in 10 adults in the UK had antibodies to coronavirus by 17 May, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.

The figures are 83% for adults in Wales, 80% in England and Northern Ireland and a slightly lower 73% for Scotland.

They're up from 77% for Wales, 76% for England, 75% for Northern Ireland and 69% for Scotland - the week before.

Antibodies are evidence of vaccination or past infection

❤

That's SO good!

The NHS Providers chief executive, Chris Hopson, told Times Radio: “What [hospital] chief executives are consistently telling us is that it is a much younger population that is coming in, they are less clinically vulnerable, they are less in need of critical care and therefore they’re seeing what they believe is significantly lower mortality rate which is, you know, borne out by the figures. So it’s not just the numbers of people who are coming in, it’s actually the level of harm and clinical risk.

Sorry if it's been posted before but thought you would all like this regarding our vaccine take up rate. Sometimes when I read posts on hear I think no one is getting vaccinated but hopefully this shows otherwise

www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1439

*here

The news is so up and down at the moment - bad news and then good news.

I cant keep up 🤯

Over a million covid bookings today from the under 30s - which is a new record!

Shows how much people want to get back to normal, particularly young people x

It's so stressful isn't it? I hardly know what to feel. I think while the rise in cases is pretty awful, the deaths are still so low. Every day means more vaccinated and 80% having antibodies is incredible. I still feel optimistic about everything, I'd just love to be sitting here in a month seeing the case numbers fall away and deaths still really low. It will help going into winter if we can see that too.

Cases numbers are definitely spreading out from the centres in Bolton and Bedford now. My county has gone green from yellow on the map again today, the whole thing is making me anxious again. It shouldn't because I can see the rise in cases is not seeming to mean a rise in hospital admissions or deaths, and because this time everyone I care about is vaccinated (the last 3 of us have 2nd jabs in the next week) but it is still making me fidget a bit.

And the original hotspots for the delay variant of Bolton and Bedford now have dramatically dropping case numbers.

At some point they are going to have to stop publishing daily case numbers. We don’t get told this for any other disease. If it is determined that the link between cases and hospitalisations / deaths has been broken then there is no value in knowing cases numbers, is there?

@Cafeaulait27

Over a million covid bookings today from the under 30s - which is a new record!

Shows how much people want to get back to normal, particularly young people x

Yes. I just came to post this from the BBC website. Isn't it wonderful ❤

Under-30s set record-breaking day Covid-19 jab bookings

Coronavirus vaccine bookings on the NHS website reached a record high of more than one million yesterday.

It's first time daily appointments made through the national booking service have topped the million mark.

As vaccines were opened up to people aged 25 to 29 yesterday morning, a total of 1,082,596 first and second dose slots were snapped up across the day online and by phone.

That's about 45,000 an hour on average and more than 750 every minute, over the full 24 hours.

The daily total for the National Booking Service yesterday means around four times as many slots were booked yesterday compared with the day before and the same day last week.

When do we think bookings for under 25s will open? I have 23 and 21 year olds living in different parts of the country to me and they are keen to get jabbed up. Wondering if the massive rush from the 25 to 29s might slow things up a bit capacity-wise?