Coronavirus good news thread

Randy said:
Nearly one third of recently registered Covid deaths in England and Wales are people who died primarily from other causes, the latest figures show.
Weekly death data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that, for nearly 33 per cent of people included in the overall coronavirus death figures, Covid was not an underlying cause of death but was merely mentioned on the death certificate.
The number of people who are not principally dying from Covid but are still being included in the official figures has been creeping up steadily as the pandemic has declined.
It had been running at around 10 per cent for most of the crisis but had risen to nearly a quarter by mid-April and is continuing to increase.
In the latest data, published on Wednesday, which records death registrations in the week ending April 23, some 260 deaths from Covid were recorded in England and Wales, but only 67.7 per cent (176) of those had the virus as an underlying cause.
The new figures showed that more people are now dying from flu and pneumonia than Covid for the first time since before the second wave.
While 176 people were listed as dying from Covid as the underlying cause, 278 died from influenza and pneumonia.
The figures show that coronavirus deaths in England and Wales now make up just 2.6 per cent of all deaths – the lowest since September. At the height of the second wave earlier this year, some 45.7 per cent of all deaths involved the virus.

England and Wales have been trending well below the five-year average death rate for the past seven weeks, with the latest data showing 5.3 per cent fewer deaths recorded overall compared to the expected figure and 497 fewer deaths than the previous week.



From The Telegraph.
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No cause is "merely" mentioned on a death certificate. I lost both my parents to pnuemonia, except I didn't. There were other contributory causes that I agreed to when I signed the paperwork when registering their deaths.
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
Any idea how effective the current Oxford jab is against the SA variant?
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Last Monday they said both deaths and hospitalisations were reduced by 85-90% with one dose of the AZ vaccine. Yesterday Hancock said that 6 out of 18 vaccinated people had been hospitalised in Bolton, with about 750 Indian variant cases in the previous week. That suggests, at face value, the overall rate of hospitalisation is low in Bolton (just over 2% compared with 5% nationwide) but the 6 vaccinated people is statistically higher than the nationwide experience. The numbers are very small to make any conclusions though.
 
Randy said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1394253195279470593


SCIENCE!
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She (Chise) knows what she's on about too, a good follow on Twitter.

Most have been saying the Indian variant is not as evasive as the South African variant, it's just similar to the UK one, as far as vaccines go. The issue is meant to be the transmissibility, although there's not a lot of actual data on it, largely because the main place with the Indian variant problem (India) don't accurately record their numbers.
 
Andy_W said:
She (Chise) knows what she's on about too, a good follow on Twitter.

Most have been saying the Indian variant is not as evasive as the South African variant, it's just similar to the UK one, as far as vaccines go. The issue is meant to be the transmissibility, although there's not a lot of actual data on it, largely because the main place with the Indian variant problem (India) don't accurately record their numbers.
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What happened to the South African and Brazilian variants?
 
bear66 said:
Good to see the large number of people coming forward for vaccine jabs in Bolton

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It's a good idea, assuming it's extras and the u40's and they're getting Pfizer, especially as Pfizer is about ~40% protection after 7 days in the under 40's and ~90% after 14 days, for just one jab. Even if the variant ends up being a problem, the vaccine will make it a much lesser one, and handicap it early doors, they should do the same in other deprived/ high minority northern towns.

Hopefully, Bolton might just be a spike/ outbreak, they had all the tools for it to be.
We were opening up, deprived northern town, plenty of young (unvaccinated), plenty of minorities (low vaccine uptake), high Indian population, letting in flights from India, the outbreak shouldn't really be a shock.
 
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Seems to be a lot of panic over the Indian variant, but I can't really see why in the UK wide numbers, maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic here, but anyway.

The UK, for the last 4 days, the highest case number is 2,193, which is including "Bolton" and including us going hell for leather trying to find more Indian variant cases. If we don't go over 2500 cases per day for the next few days, that's 2200 for the 7 day average, which is about the lowest we've had this year, if you take out the bank holiday affected numbers, not bad considering we've been opening up and people have been a bit less obedient of all the rules.

Obviously, Bolton has gone bad, but the rest must have made up for it and then some, as the trend is down or flat for the UK now, and we've been relaxing measures. So whilst bad news in one area, is very good news in others.

Seemingly the case increases in Bolton have halted, hopefully if we can get that under control and down to the Uk average we should have some really low numbers.
 
Andy_W said:
Seems to be a lot of panic over the Indian variant, but I can't really see why in the UK wide numbers, maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic here, but anyway.

The UK, for the last 4 days, the highest case number is 2,193, which is including "Bolton" and including us going hell for leather trying to find more Indian variant cases. If we don't go over 2500 cases per day for the next few days, that's 2200 for the 7 day average, which is about the lowest we've had this year, if you take out the bank holiday affected numbers, not bad considering we've been opening up and people have been a bit less obedient of all the rules.

Obviously, Bolton has gone bad, but the rest must have made up for it and then some, as the trend is down or flat for the UK now, and we've been relaxing measures. So whilst bad news in one area, is very good news in others.

Seemingly the case increases in Bolton have halted, hopefully if we can get that under control and down to the Uk average we should have some really low numbers.
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Map showing incidence as a proportion of total cases. Only to 1 May as there's a long lag in getting all PCR positives tested.

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bear66 said:
Map showing incidence as a proportion of total cases. Only to 1 May as there's a long lag in getting all PCR positives tested.

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Not surprised, India’s probably got 2m cases per day, if testing was free, available and used in villages. Not shocked it’s increasing here, largely fuelled by travel and delivery into deprived high occupancy households.

I actually just read another good very good Twitter thread on it, well worth a read.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1394359535754698755
 
A new siRNA (small interfering RNA) medicine shows promise as a therapeutic against CoVid-19, with a potential of reducing viral load by over 99%.

World-first COVID-19 antiviral therapy developed in Brisbane and US targets virus in the body

According to the article:
  • Gene-silencing RNA technology is used to destroy the COVID-19 virus genome directly and stops the virus replicating
  • The treatment could be available as early as 2023, depending on the next phase of clinical trials
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Liamo said:
A new siRNA (small interfering RNA) medicine shows promise as a therapeutic against CoVid-19, with a potential of reducing viral load by over 99%.

World-first COVID-19 antiviral therapy developed in Brisbane and US targets virus in the body

According to the article:
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The anti-vaxers are going to love the sound of that! :rolleyes:
"I don't want to be silenced"
"It's the nanobots, they're going to seek and destroy my brain cells"
"I've head it's designed to make us sterile"

Great news though, although needs bringing forward and if it looks promising I imagine it will.

Clever, clever people, ❤️ science.
 
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