England, 95% of over 50s have had first dose
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56849874
45-49 at 59% so far
Care home staff, 80%
Proportion of over 18s vaccinated in UK
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Patients in hospital
2% of hospital beds
Zoe latest
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
NE highest
SW lowest
No big surges in South London (SA variant)
No data on India variant yet
Chance of contracting CoViD in next 24 hours
No vaccine 1 in 46,000
12 days after first dose 1 in 74,000
12 days after 2nd dose 1 in 114,000
Lancet paper next week
People in care homes with two vaccines should be given more freedoms
E mail from CDC to CNN, Breakthrough infections
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949381?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=127834AR&impID=3316056&faf=1
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/14/health/breakthrough-infections-covid-vaccines-cdc/index.html
Vaccinated people who become infected, 1 in 13,275
Of these, asymptomatic 29%
Required hospitalization 1 in 194,444
Deaths 1 in 1,040,540
US
Vaccine tipping point?
Point where supply outstrips demand
This week, 3 million per day
Last week, 3.3 million per day
Summertime, hopes life will return to normal
India
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56826645
Highest ever one day total anywhere
Cases, + 314,835 = 16 million
(US, 8th Jan, + 313,000)
30% positivity rates
Deaths, 2,104 = 185,000
Crowds outside hospitals
People dying waiting for admission
Oxygen supply variable
Deputy Delhi Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia
Some hospitals have run out of oxygen
Delhi crematorium resorting to building pyres in its car park
Specific example
Nashik, Western India
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/21/india-hospital-oxygen-deaths/
Broken valve on oxygen tank
150 CoViD patients
22 died
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Asked officials to find ways to produce more oxygen
States to come down heavily on anyone hoarding supplies
Curfew in Delhi, increased restrictions in Maharashtra
Vaccines, 130 million so far
Evidence going back more than 30 years suggests that platelets can biosynthesize proteins
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09537100801990582?journalCode=iplt20
Sweden
https://www.dw.com/en/do-swedens-covid-liberties-cost-lives/a-57268022
Size limitations on public gatherings
8 p.m. closing time for restaurants and pubs
Other, recommendations
January, passengers on public transportation encouraged to face cover
South Africa
31 million doses of the J&J
30 million doses of Pfizer BioNTech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/22/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
Resume using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
South Africa, no reports of unusual blood clots
290,000 of 1.2 million health workers have been given the J&J vaccine in a study
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