Thank you Jacqueline!
The news is certainly focusing on the problems and looking to apportion blame,
when in fact there has been an incredible turn around in all manner of areas
and you’re right to highlight this amazingly good news!
Research & Development is one area where the ingenuity and problem solving
skills of our universities and businesses are making incredibly fast progress.
There is also a tremendous amount of work being done in other countries around
the world and an unprecedented sharing of scientific and medical information (I
am working for an Austrian drug development company and get insight to what’s
happening there too).
Treatments will improve and as vaccines are developed and herd immunity grows
(which will keep large social outbreaks less likely in future) we will be even
better placed to respond to any resurgence of this virus and also for any
future novel viruses.
Stay safe and keep your spirits up and this time will pass,
Ray (Old School House)
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On 2 Apr 2020, at 09:04, Jacqueline Pumphrey <jacquelinepumphrey@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi everyone
It occurred to me yesterday that I am lucky that my work involves some
good-news stories about the fight against Covid-19, and I wanted to share
some of them with you.
As you may know, I work in communications at the University of Oxford. I'm
currently in the department of clinical neurosciences, which includes
(somewhat strangely, for historical reasons!) anaesthetics - and critical
care. Some of these guys have been working on developing a prototype
ventilator that could easily be manufactured at scale, and is now at the
testing stage:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-03-31-ventilator-project-oxvent-gets-green-light-uk-government-proceed-next-stage-testing.
Others have developed wearable monitoring devices that allow nurses to check
on hospital patients in a way that minimises their own risk of infection:
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/news/using-wearable-technology-to-monitor-covid-19-patients
And the University is also involved in a Covid-19 vaccine trial:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-03-27-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-programme-opens-clinical-trial-recruitment
I thought I'd share this because one of the things that I find comforting is
the fact that some of the brightest minds in the world are working together
to apply themselves to all sorts of aspects of the situation we now find
ourselves in.
Stay safe everyone, and stay hopeful.
Jacqueline
