United States
100 million shots in 100 days
Current supply issues
Using the defence production act
Federal Emergency Management Agency and National Guard to build sites
Federal mask mandate
https:/covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
https://covidtracking.com/data(The Atlantic)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5
Cases, + 215,449 = 23,715,000
Down 8.1% in past 7 days
National positivity rate, 11.1%
Hospitalizations, 126,139 (23,524) (7,755)
Down 3.5% in past 7 days
Deaths, 386,825
Up 6.4% in past 7 days
US, Vaccinations
Distributed, 31,161,075
First dose, 10,595,866
Second dose, 1,610,524
UK
Sir Simon Stevens, Head of NHS England
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-55694385
Hospitals, extreme pressure
London and South East, East of England, Midlands, North West
Transfers
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Estimated R number
1.2 – 1.3 (15th January)
Daily infection growth rate range, of + 2% to + 5% (15th January 2021)
Cases, + 41,346 = 3,375,361
Cases, last 7 days, down 18.6%
Hospitalised, + 4,532 = 37,475 (3,789)
Last 7 days, up 19.7%
Deaths, + 7,722 (7 days) = 88,590
Last 7 days, up 23.5%
UK death certificate deaths, 93,030
Vaccinated, first dose, 3,559,179 (Jan 15th)
Second dose, 447,261
Vaccinations, next step
End of June, all over 18 vaccinated, (54 million)
Four to five million people a week within months.
Moderna (17m)
Johnson & Johnson (30m)
Nadhim Zahawi, new vaccines for variants, 30-40 days after first identified
Hospitalisations and deaths down early March
UK Super-factory (158m)
End of 2021
Vaccinate everyone against VOCs within 4 months
Opens later this year
Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC)
Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, not-for-profit company
Capable of producing 70m doses in four to five months
Much of the Pfizer and Oxford vaccine made in Belgium and Netherlands
Equipped to produce mRNA vaccines and adenovirus-based
Mr David Davis, MP
Andalusia
8 million people
Death rate cut by two thirds
50 -70 per day down to 5 -15 per day
Calcifediol to high-risk groups
Madrid is reviewing
India
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-vaccinations/2021/01/15/342a7282-55c9-11eb-acc5-92d2819a1ccb_story.html
Emergency approval to two vaccines
First 300 million
3,000 vaccination centres
Oxford-AstraZeneca
Covaxin, Bharat Biotech
Both fridge temperatures
Both cost $2.75 per dose
Pfizer is $19.50
Indian regulators, Bharat Biotech vaccine, used in clinical trial mode
Serum Institute, Covax project
Israel
Rate in community transmission remains high after 20% vaccinated
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/early-data-israeli-vaccine-programme-suggests-infection-rates/
Pfizer-BioNTech, reduce chances of catching coronavirus by 33 – 60 % after 14 days
Looking like vaccine prevents recipients transmitting coronavirus
N = 200,000 (vaccinated)
N = 200,000 (unvaccinated)
No behaviour change
Full 95 per cent protection comes after two shots
Now inviting over 50s
Zimbabwe
https://www.chronicle.co.zw/covid-19-government-to-ascertain-safety-of-vaccines-first/
Government will first ascertain that Covid-19 vaccines are safe before administering them on volunteers.
Following other States, with keen interest
Zimbabwe adopted a measured approach
Further, in the unlikely scenario that cases spiral out of control, all hospitals in the country may be turned into Covid-19 centres.
Australia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55693223
Several players have expressed frustration
At least three female players said they might not have gone
At least 47 players are now in isolation in Melbourne
Two flights with positive cases
Emma Cassar, Quarantine Commissioner, Victoria
People in the hotels were breaching lockdown rules by opening their doors to communicate with others on their floor
It is really low-level but really dangerous acts which we just can’t tolerate
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