UK
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights
W/e 6th August
1 in 75 people in England
1 in 220 people in Wales
1 in 55 people in Northern Ireland
1 in 190 people in Scotland
13 August 2021
64% of adults met up indoors with someone not in their household in the past seven days
United States
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations
90% of counties with high or substantial transmission notes
93 million not vaccinated who are eligible
Therefore, mutation more likely
Measles, smallpox, polio (universal vaccination)
Hospitalizations up 34.6% over past week
Florida and Texas, 40% of hospitalizations
RSV surge in a heat wave
Parainfluenza viruses
MIS-C, 2 to 6 weeks after a covid infection
Children in hospital with covid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/13/children-hospitalizations-covid-delta/
1,785
Florida worst 247 children admitted last week
Nearly all parents unvaccinated
Either under age 12 or teens who put off the vaccine
Long covid in children
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/
After even mild or asymptomatic infections in children
Michael Smit, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Vaccines for 5- to 11-year-olds delayed until later this year
We have months more to go
We’re in a real danger period between now and then
Australia, NSW
Cases, + 390 = 12,440
140 linked to a known case or cluster
118 are household contacts
22 are close contacts
Source of infection for 250 cases is under investigation
58 cases were infectious in the community
Isolation status of 191 remains under investigation
6,874 locally acquired cases reported since 16 June 2021
Deaths, + 2
man in his 90s
woman in her 40s
Deaths in current outbreak = 38 = 95
In hospital = 391 (63, 30)
Regional sewage systems in Tamworth, Bomaderry, Bathurst, Parkes and Bourke
No known cases of COVID-19 living in these areas
420 COVID-19 testing locations across NSW
your nearest clinic visit: https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/how-to-protect-yourself-and-others/clinics
Myanmar
Yellow flags
Many deaths at home
Serious oxygen shortage
UN, 40% of health care facilities functional
Oxygen production channelled through military hospitals
DIY home care
Local doctors working locally
HCWs arrested
Resistance often led by doctors
Backlog at crematoriums
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