Mr. Trump
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/03/16/its-something-that-works-trump-urges-distrustful-supporters-to-get-vaccine/?sh=ced26153b645
Encouraged his supporters to get vaccinated
Vaccine is safe and something that works
It’s a great vaccine, it’s a safe vaccine and it’s something that works
I would, I would recommend it to a lot of people who don’t want to get it
US, 30 million doses of AZ ready to go
China
https://www.dw.com/en/china-introduces-health-passport-for-travel/av-56852170?maca=en-NL-Corona-Compact
Launching a digital health passport
Intended to allow easy travel across borders
British Airways
Passengers to register on a smartphone app
Germany
Cases, + 13,435 = 2,594,764
Deaths, + 249 = 73,905
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-top-virologist-warns-covid-rates-to-spike-again/a-56895173?maca=en-NL-Corona-Compact
Christian Drosten, virologist
B117, increasingly prevalent in Germany, (75%)
Driving infections, drastically more difficult
April back to December levels
More transmissible but also more dangerous
Paul-Ehrlich-Institute for vaccines and biomedicines
https://www.pei.de/EN/newsroom/hp-news/2021/210315-pei-informs-temporary-suspension-vaccination-astra-zeneca.html
Sinus vein thrombosis in connection with thrombocytopenia and bleeding
https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronavirus-node.html?cms_tabcounter=3
Seven affected individuals, three deaths
Affected individuals had ages ranging from about 20 to 50 years
Six of the affected persons had a particular form of cerebral venous thrombosis, called sinus vein thrombosis.
All six individuals were younger to middle-aged women
All cases occurred between 4 and 16 days after vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca.
Statistically significantly higher than the number of cerebral venous thromboses that normally occur in the unvaccinated population
Observed-versus-expected analysis was performed
14-day time window
1.6 million AstraZeneca vaccinations in Germany
About one case would have been expected, and seven cases had been reported
A connection between the reported above-mentioned diseases and the vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca was not implausible
Australia and PNG
https://www.dw.com/en/australia-asks-eu-to-send-vaccines-for-papua-new-guinea/a-56894487?maca=en-NL-Corona-Compact
Surge in cases in Papua New Guinea (8.7 million)
Ask AstraZeneca and the European Union to release one million COVID-19 vaccine doses
Prime Minister Scott Morrison
We’ve contracted them.
We’ve paid for them.
And we want to see those vaccines come here so we can support our nearest neighbour, PNG, to deal with their urgent needs in our region
They’re our family, they’re our friends. They’re our neighbours. They’re our partners …
Virus needed to be controlled in order to stop a new variant from developing
Positivity rate, batch of 500 tests, 50%
Italy
Recently blocked 250,000 vaccines being delivered to Australia
UK vaccinations
BJ (56) to get the AZ soon
The Vaccine Taskforce
Department for Business
Not Department of Health
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-vaccine-taskforce-objectives-and-membership-of-steering-group
Secure access to promising vaccine/s for the UK population
Make provision for international distribution of vaccines
Support industrial strategy by establishing a long-term vaccine strategy plan to prepare the UK for future pandemics
Sir Patrick Vallance
Kate Bingham (VTF Chair), appointed May 2020, unpaid
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32175-9/fulltext
Strategy, diverse portfolio
Adenoviral vectors, mRNA, adjuvanted proteins, and whole inactivated viral vaccines
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/covid-cases-now-confirmed-more-20172721
Werneth High, in Romiley, Stockport 90 pupils sent home, asymptomatics, picked up with lateral flow tests
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