UK, Delta variant, 91%
CoViD symptom study
https://covid.joinzoe.com
R = 1.3 (UK)
Delta, R = 6 (in no lockdown conditions)
Two doses needed
Young and unvaccinated
Cases could double in the next week, up to 20,000 per day
Increased cases will feed through into more deaths, 40 per day
Long CoViD will also increase
Change in presentation
Cold like features
Symptoms now (since May)
Headache
Sore throt
Runny nose
Fever
Cough
No loss of smell anymore
The four tests
The vaccine deployment programme continues successfully
Evidence shows vaccines are sufficiently effective in reducing hospitalisations and deaths in those vaccinated
Infection rates do not risk a surge in hospitalisations which would put unsustainable pressure on the NHS
The assessment of the risks is not fundamentally changed by new variants of concern.
ONS
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19roundup/2020-03-26
Long COVID from first wave
1 million with symptoms for more than 4 weeks
As of 2 May 2021
376,000 people still symptomatic
63.7%, at least some limitation to their day-to-day activities
18.8% day-to-day activities have been limited a lot
35 to 69 years more likely than over 70s
Second vaccine doses
Lower among all ethnic minority groups compared with White British population
Overall, 70 years and over in England
96.0% got second dose within eight weeks (by 9 May 2021)
Pakistani 82.4%
Bangladeshi 82.7%
More deprived areas, lower 2nd dose rates
Disabled people, lower 2nd dose rates
United States
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/10/world/covid-vaccine-coronavirus-mask#moderna-fda-teen-vaccine
Deaths down 90 % since January peak
Late May, 2,400 weekly deaths
Unvaccinated population
Main mortality group now 50 to 74
Black and Hispanic populations lag behind Asian and white
Also, rural, homeless, people who don’t access medical care
MIS-C US
https://www.cdc.gov/mis-c/cases/index.html
Cases, 4,018
Deaths, 36
Moderna
Requested an emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration
For 12- to 17-year-olds
Also Moderna has applied to Health Canada and European Medicines Agency
Authorization by F.D.A. 3 or to 4 weeks
Pfizer already authorised
About 7 million under 18s already
Group of 7 summit
Prime Minister
The world needs this meeting
We must be honest: International order and solidarity were badly shaken by Covid.
Nations were reduced to beggar-my-neighbor tactics in the desperate search for P.P.E., for drugs — and, finally, for vaccines
put those days behind us
This is the moment for the world’s greatest and most technologically advanced democracies to shoulder their responsibilities and to vaccinate the world,
because no one can be properly protected until everyone has been protected
President Biden
Buying 500 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech
Donate to 100 countries over the next year
Latin America, Caribbean (25 million doses this month)
80 million doses this months
Dr. Etienne, W.H.O. news conference
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay still bad
I.C.U. beds are full, oxygen is running low and health workers are overwhelmed
India
Audit, uncounted fatalities in Bihar
5,500 up to 9,000 people
(Normally about 20% of deaths medially recorded)
Germany
Vaccination confirmation app started today
CovPass, QR code confirming full vaccination
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