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

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Thanks for the new thread!

I’m a bit confused and I wondered if anyone could help me… I was invited by my GP to book my second vaccine (Oxford / AZ) and I can book it as soon as this weekend. BUT I only had my first jab 5 weeks ago. I thought I needed to go at least 8 weeks between doses? Should I wait or should I book?

@Autumn101

Mancy - I’m Brighton too and when I went to change my jab a couple of hours ago there were lots of appointments for Brighton Centre from end of June onwards so hopefully some will show for him soon 🤞

Thanks Autumn. I'll get him to check again.

@Worried1305

Thanks for the new thread!

I’m a bit confused and I wondered if anyone could help me… I was invited by my GP to book my second vaccine (Oxford / AZ) and I can book it as soon as this weekend. BUT I only had my first jab 5 weeks ago. I thought I needed to go at least 8 weeks between doses? Should I wait or should I book?

Where are you? Which vaccine is it? the incidence high where you’re ? Personally if az if not many cases in your area I’d wait If moderna o pfizer then maybe I’d book it (because I’m Spanish and my friend have theirs 21-28 days as recommended by the pharmaceutical)

Hang on you said az. I’d try and wait … if not in Bolton or hotspot area

Also if it is being offered to you early because you are cev then take it early. Even if not currently in a high risk area. The risk of things changing by the time you have it and then a couple of weeks to work better.

Checking in, I love how this thread still brings me back to reality when I’ve read a panicky story.
Here’s my kitten Ziggy

Have just frightened myself looking at cases today. Cornwall up by close to 1000%. Tell me hospitalisation etc are not following suit? I cannot handle another peak like January.

Loving the really cute cats❤

This is a good article. Very good if true❤

inews.co.uk/news/politics/cases-have-peaked-in-delta-variant-hotspot-after-emergency-testing-and-vaccination-1056569

Just checking in!

@Reachersloveinterest

Have just frightened myself looking at cases today. Cornwall up by close to 1000%. Tell me hospitalisation etc are not following suit? I cannot handle another peak like January.

I don’t think it looks bad for Cornwall the cases And you’ve 0 people in the hospitals in one trust and 1 in the other trust

@Reachersloveinterest

Have just frightened myself looking at cases today. Cornwall up by close to 1000%. Tell me hospitalisation etc are not following suit? I cannot handle another peak like January.

Yes up 1000% sounds scary but Cornwall was only 32 cases before. So though an increase of any size isn't good. Cornwall will probably not get to high. The vaccination rate for a start is very good. Which will dampen down cases and hospitalisations a bit. Definitely limit deaths.

I've tried so hard to be positive and this thread really helps me but I'm struggling. Please tell me we won't have another lockdown, we'll achieve herd immunity one day and we'll be able to travel again one day, when do you all think? Give me some hope please!

I think we will be able to do all of those things. What we don't know is when yet.

No more lockdowns?

@Reachersloveinterest

Have just frightened myself looking at cases today. Cornwall up by close to 1000%. Tell me hospitalisation etc are not following suit? I cannot handle another peak like January.

I have friends who live in St Ives, they were just telling me this evening that quite a few of the cafes and restaurants are now shut due to outbreaks, if you follow any of the Cornish groups on Facebook you can tell there’s a fair bit of panic now because it seems to have suddenly creeped up on to them. The big problem they face is their lack of hospital capacity.

A few people are trying to spin it as being caused by the G7 but half term there was chaos. I hope this is a glitch and the numbers roll back down for them because they can not cope with a big spike and so many of the independent businesses are only just clinging on as it is.

I was in Cornwall over half term and I’m not surprised about the increase, it was rammed!

Hopefully it’ll just be cases and hospitalisation won’t get too high due to vaccination.

Despite cases going up nationally, hospitalisation isn’t going up too much and case increases are slowing.

I was freaked out by the ‘leaked documents’ that we’ll be wearing masks and wfh forever - really hoping it’s not true! I’m one of those loons who doesn’t want to wfh anymore.

Cases have peaked in Blackburn apparently due to surge vaccination ☺️

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/16/covid-cases-have-peaked-in-blackburn-official-figures-show

@Rainingagaininseattle

I've tried so hard to be positive and this thread really helps me but I'm struggling. Please tell me we won't have another lockdown, we'll achieve herd immunity one day and we'll be able to travel again one day, when do you all think? Give me some hope please!

The vaccination take up in the U.K. is the highest in the world, and doubled jabbed people are 95% more protected from being hospitalised than they were before being vaccinated. The only reason there's a big rise in cases is that unvaccinated under 30s have been spreading it in their social groups, and most under 50s aren't yet double-jabbed. That will change in the coming month or so. I don't believe we're going back to lockdowns.

I agree with Hamil the next four weeks are the slightly trickier part but after that we will have high enough vaccination

With no vaccine evading variants things will switch markedly

@Fleek

I screenshotted one of the most active negative posters on this board on 4th June, it's on my phone which I can't be bothered to go get now. She was adamant by 21st June we would be seeing 100,000 cases a day every day. I saw her repeat that several times on the board.

Not that I think current numbers are brilliant but the virus is going to have to work an awful lot harder to hit 100,000 a day more by 5 days time. I know some people have started pushing it to 'we'll hit that in mid-July' but I'm still not getting the sense that's very realistic. Absolutely great to see the growth slow down and the deaths stay so low. I've had such a bad month with managing my feelings around the Delta variant, any bit of good news helps.

I remember that post. Can't help but laugh as they're on another thread claiming they've experience in data modelling. Which is odd considering how shockingly bad the maths to get to 100k cases a day was....

Apparently the latest delay was decided against modelling which was much more pessimistic than its turned out to be, so hopefully things will be ok in a month.

The below article says projected deaths have now been slashed, and currently only 1% of beds in hospitals have covid patients in them:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/16/latest-covid-modelling-pushed-back-june-21-based-out-of-date/

Every time the chart(s) of doom was plopped onto a thread it was pointed out that it was based on out of date information and incorrect assumptions. Even a maths numpty like me knew it was using wrong data!

My 21 yo has a vaccine appointment for next week.

@TeenMinusTests

My 21 yo has a vaccine appointment for next week.

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