Delta pandemic

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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