Netherlands
https://nltimes.nl/2021/01/25/police-union-expects-days-weeks-curfew-riots
https://www.dw.com/en/netherlands-another-night-of-riots-over-coronavirus-curfew/a-56341554
Curfew riots
9 pm to 4.30 am
Bars and restaurants closed since October
Schools and non-essential shops shut since December
Cases going down
National Institute for Health (RIVM) warned another new variant powered wave
Filipa in Portugal
The situation in Portugal is horrible
We are now in lockdown but until last week the Government insisted in keeping schools open…
We are staying at home for a year working from home because I never trusted our numbers.
And yet the planes keep coming and the Hospitals at 300 per cent occupation rate.
UK
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
US, CDC data
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
Past 7 days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?itid=sf_coronavirus
Global vaccine tracker
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
UK vaccine tracker
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations
US vaccine tracker
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations
Europe vaccine tracker
https://data.spectator.co.uk/city/vaccines
US
Brazil variant
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/25/covid-coronavirus-live-updates/
Minnesota resident with recent travel history to Brazil.
Anthony Fauci
We have concern about the mutation that’s in South Africa
It is clearly different and more ominous than the one in the U.K.
Mr. Biden
1.5 million per day
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccine-coronavirus/2021/01/25/f1ce56dc-5f2e-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html
I think with the grace of God . . . we’ll be able to get that to 1.5 million a day
(Now close to 1 million per day)
By spring, everyone who wants a vaccine should be able to get one.
It’s going to be a logistical challenge that exceeds anything we’ve ever tried in this country, but I think we can do that
I feel confident that by summer we’re going to be well on our way to heading toward herd immunity. I feel good about where we’re going, and I think we can get it done
We will still be talking about this into the summer
We’re still going to be dealing with this issue in the early fall
Death toll could rise to 600,000 or even 660,000
In week after 2nd Pfizer shot, 20 of 128,000 Israelis get COVID
https://www.timesofisrael.com/week-after-2nd-pfizer-vaccine-shot-only-20-of-128000-israelis-get-covid/
0.015 %
Professor Cyrille Cohen, Immunologist, Bar Ilan University
Israel, general population, around 0.65% are infected in a week
Imperfect control group
Vaccine is slightly exceeding 95% effectiveness
Anat Ekka Zohar, Analyst
None of the 20 hospitalized or suffered from a fever higher than 38.5 degrees
EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
Pfizer 61% reduction, down to 31 m
This new schedule is not acceptable to the European Union
EU, €336 million ($409 million)
EU move requiring drugmakers to preregister all vaccine exports,
Oxford AZ approval, 29th January, starting 15th February
Serbia
Population, 7 million
Inactivated, two-dose vaccine from Sinopharm
One million doses, 79.3% effective
China, Bahrain, Brazil, Peru
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