Good News 14: Keeping our spirits up, just a bit longer.

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No you still need both jabs if you've had a previous infection, though I think it's different in some countries.

I had Covid at Christmas but have had both jabs.

Thanks @Reachersloveinterest. I’m Spanish and they only provide 1 dose but people might have problems when traveling outside the Eu cuz they don’t recognise infection + 1 dose (Thailand for example requests both doses)

These are the figures for vaccination by age group - these are as of 25th June, so will now be higher. By my rough maths we have about 8m first doses to go to hit 100% of all adults - I reckon about another 5m will actually be done.

Apparently the median age for taking a PCR is 43, but the median age ofpositive cases in England is 24 which is kind of good news too (i did warm up before that stretch 🤣)

Vaccines work, yo!

@Bordois
Vaccines work, yo!

😂 love it!

Vaccines work, yo!

They do ! My mum used to take ages to pick up the mobile phone. Since she’s got the vaccine she picks it up much sooner. Must be the vaccines 5G

Yes East we still have to have both jabs to be on the safe side. Especially with the delta.

However what I was trying to say is one jab plus previous infection has been proven to produce high levels of antibodies with other variants. Therefore it should really help with this one two in theory.

Hopefully it may help case numbers to drop and stop some hospitalisation whilst they wait for that second jab.

Good news here. I helped at our vaccination centre yesterday. They have lots of AZ stock, but not a lot of bookings..... because they’ve pretty much second jabbed everyone who is due! They are just waiting on those who are remaining to hit the 8 week mark. On Pfizer days it’s packed with the enthusiastic youngsters. It was all very reassuring to see!

Sarah Gilbert: 'What none of us foresaw was how the vaccine would become a political football. Our year of painstaking attention to detail resulting in a vaccine with the potential to save millions of lives around the world could be dismissed by a politician with a grudge.'

She has roasted Macron. About time too!

Great Gilbert quote

Sometimes I feel the politicking and human flaw factor of all this is novel-like. Great science but we don’t always go with it or appreciate it

You are probably on to something there. The development and drama around the vaccines will make a good movie one day

I would who should play Sarah? Kate Winslet?

@TruelyonelastSchlep

You are probably on to something there. The development and drama around the vaccines will make a good movie one day

I would who should play Sarah? Kate Winslet?

Always a good choice

Morning everyone, just wanted to start the week saying you’re all amazing - I had a blip over the weekend and caught up on the thread last night and it without fail, always makes me feel better!

@Autumn101 I second that, it’s lovely to have a nice thread to escape the gloom.

I’m interested to see what our new health secretary has to say today.

I thought it was interesting @Cafeaulait27 that one of the first things he has said is he hopes for a return to normal as soon as possible.

Me too I’m actually feeling good that he’s taken over

A few reasons

• he says his priority is normality
• I think MH was scarred by care home scandal and became worried about doing same again becoming cautious
• stood up to Cummings and now has his job maybe due to same man

Also I read his background, some will oppose which is their wish but it’s impressive. VP Chase Manhattan bank at 25, from not rich background. Very smart might be bring some efficiency

I thought the same @MarshaBradyo

We moved our trip to see my family back again this weekend, though now that there are discussions about quarantine free travel to Amber countries for the vaccinated being floated about we may be able to move it forward again at some point.

Though I do worry when the wording is "later this summer"

I'm 26 days apart from seeing my family, one day closer is good news to me. Today they've said a pcr is needed if not vaccinated, but seems like under 12s dont need it so my good news is I dont have to do a pcr on my 3yo!

I've got another holiday booked to a green country...62 days left...

@MarshaBradyo

Me too I’m actually feeling good that he’s taken over

A few reasons

• he says his priority is normality
• I think MH was scarred by care home scandal and became worried about doing same again becoming cautious
• stood up to Cummings and now has his job maybe due to same man

Also I read his background, some will oppose which is their wish but it’s impressive. VP Chase Manhattan bank at 25, from not rich background. Very smart might be bring some efficiency

You don’t feel MH being cautious about not wanting to repeat the care homes disaster was a good thing? 😳

Obviously avoiding a repeat of same issue was a good thing.
However I welcome a clean slate right now. When you’ve become known to fuck up on a big issue at work you don’t always respond in best way to other stuff.

Anyway we’ll see. I thought the video was tawdry but I’m ready for the change and his first statement was good to hear.

Easter and Livin hang in there

I had a blip on weekend too as NZ / Aus bubble stopped again and I had a panic about ever getting home to see family (Aus).

This thread is good though, keep the positive stuff going

Just seen this on bbc:

Encouraging data means loosening of restrictions remains on the cards

Nick Triggle

Health Correspondent

There’s lots of talk about encouraging data. But with infection levels climbing rapidly how can that be?

The key is in the picture emerging with hospital cases and deaths. When the initial delay to step four was announced, infection rates had just started rising and government scientists were worried about what that could lead to with the vaccination programme not fully rolled out.

The past few weeks have provided clarity about what we can expect. The answer can be found by comparing the start of the second wave in the autumn with what is happening now.

During September and October cases were rising much as they are now. Within eight weeks that had translated to more than 1,000 admissions a day. This time round there are just above 200.

There is even better news with deaths. Latest estimates show fewer than one in 1,000 infections is leading to a death. At the peak of the winter wave it was one in 60.

This has dramatically altered what can be considered a proportionate response to the virus – and is why a further loosening of restrictions remains on the cards.

@wendz86 and yet just this afternoon Hong Kong has banned all visitors from the UK from entering due to us now being deemed ‘extremely high risk’.

Just to reassure everyone- cases were low yesterday as there was an issue with getting the data- its been corrected in todays report so case numbers are artificially high today.