Change in symptoms

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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