Used to be Coronavirus Good News, now Help Me To Pass - aimed at helping GCSE students to navigate their GCSE's & test themselves with instant feedback
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This account brought COVID good news! Now, I’m proud to share helpmetopass.com which I built to help my daughter during her GCSE's. Instant feedback, all subjects. Parents, please try it! Teachers, what do you think? Would love any feedback!
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For anyone interested I also maintain the following site - justgivemepositivenews.com which tries to track down all the positive news online surrounding COVID (and beyond), it should hopefully be another resource to try and help.
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Interesting analysis of why COVID-19 requires a 3rd booster vaccine by looking at *most* other vaccines which require multiple doses
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the most interesting movement in today's chart is not in the 80+, but in the under-20s, which seem to be losing growth momentum. 1/2
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How long does immune memory last after #mRNA vax?
Immunity vs. variants?
What happens when you “boost” w/ vaccine?
Our work on durability & evolution of memory responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…. Antibodies, memory B/T cells, & more. Full thread below 💉👨🔬
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Absolutely love the triple-scale chart @TravellingTabby implemented for Scotland here: travellingtabby.com/scotland… so I thought I'd show one for the whole UK.
I've offset the admissions and deaths numbers (6 and 14 days respectively) to make the main point more clearly.
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Did you hear vaccinated people with Delta “have just as much virus in their nose so are just as infectious as unvaccinated”?
Turns out vaccinated people have significantly less culturable virus present at the same Ct count
They are LESS INFECTIOUS 💥
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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SARS-CoV-2 variants technical briefing 21 was published today.
Hospitalisation and death rates are shown for people aged 50 plus with the Delta variant, split by vaccination status.
These rates are 11 times higher among the unvaccinated than in the fully vaccinated 1/3
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Debunking antivaxxers' assertions that cases in Iceland mean vaccines don't work: health officials in Iceland report vaccines preventing 60% of vaccinated from any infection and 90% against serious illness. 97% of vaccinated cases have mild or no symptoms. reuters.com/article/factchec…
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Israel started administering a third dose to 60 y/o and above on July 30
By now, over half of this age group received the 3rd dose
In the two weeks that passed, the relative fraction of cases of 60 y/o and above who are vaccinated out of all cases dropped from ~12-14% to ~6%
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Breaking down Ontario's cases, hospitalizations, and deaths by vaccine status - using all pop for cases, and adult pop for hospitalization and death (rough calc).
Vaccine efficacy is 87.5% against COVID-19, 94.7% against hospitalization, and 99.3% against ICU
The vaccines work
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So, if vaccination doesn't work we should expect 8.9 times more vaxxed people in hospital than vaxxed. We actually see 0.67 times.
Vaccines only work on the vaxxed, so they've "squished down" that ratio by protecting the vaxxed.
"Squishing" 0.67 / 8.9 = 0.075.
= 92.4% effective.
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More good news for Scotland - cases have been falling for a couple of weeks and now the number of people in hospital with a positive COVID diagnosis looks to have started to fall too.
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Latest modelling analysis from @PHE_uk and the University of Cambridge’s MRC Biostatistics Unit suggests that the COVID-19 vaccination programme has so far prevented an estimated 7.2 million infections and 27,000 deaths in England alone.
gov.uk/government/news/covid…
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If you want to bring your second vaccine dose forward, but haven’t because you have to cancel your appointment first… you can use the new availability checker before you cancel to make sure you’ll get an appointment sooner #nhsdigital #COVIDVaccination #Covid19
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travellingtabby.com/uk-coron…
Wales have now vaccinated over 70% of their total population with the first dose, making them the first country with over a million population to do so! 🥳
#Covid19UK #coronavirusuk #DailyCovidUpdate
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Even better than that.
Portion of population currently double dosed represents 96% of total pop covid hospitalisation risk pre-vaccines (Great JCVI strategy for risk targeting).
Only accounting 3% of Delta is in keeping with vax effectiveness 97% against hospitalisation.
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Over 40s can now rebook earlier second jabs (from 8 weeks after first dose).
I just brought mine forward by 3 weeks (and moved it to a location I can walk to).
Via link below and “Manage my appointments”.
nhs.uk/conditions/coronaviru…