UK and India
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56800305
PM cancels India trip
Cases, + 200,000 for past 4 days
Deaths, + 1,620
Delhi lockdown for 1 week
(Weekend curfew judged ineffective)
Health services overwhelmed
Public Health England, 73 in England, 4 in Scotland
Not on red list
Chief Medical Advisor for NHS Test and Trace, Dr Susan Hopkins
UK did not have enough data yet to determine if India should be put on the list
UK Health Security Agency, please intervene now!
Not been classed as a “variant of concern”
Details on India
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef3652ab722df11fcb2ba5d/t/6076f57d3b43fb2db4a7c9c9/1618408831746/India+TF+Policy+Brief+April+2021.pdf
Test positivity rates
Start of April, 2.8%
April 10th, 10.3%
Case fatality rate from March 2020 = 1.3%
Now, 0.87%
New Zealand and Australia, travel bubble
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/new-zealand-australia-travel-bubble-coronavirus/2021/04/19/d7b9dab4-a0ba-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html
Monday, first quarantine-free flight from Australia to NZ
After 400 days isolation
Janssen pause lifting Friday 23rd April
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/18/pause-johnson-johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-likely-be-lifted-by-friday-fauci-says/
Dr. Fauci
By Friday, we should have an answer as to where we’re going with it
I would think that we’re not going to go beyond Friday in the extension of this pause
I do think that there will likely be some sort of warning or restriction or risk assessment
I think it’ll likely say, ‘Okay, we’re going to use it, but be careful under these certain circumstances.’
The six cases of the blood clots were in women ages 18 and 48
Late summer or early fall (Dr. Fauci)
FDA and the CDC will probably decide on a third booster shot
Expects high school students will be vaccinated by the fall school term
Elementary schoolchildren will receive vaccine doses by the first quarter of 2022.
Now
Just over half of all adults in the US, at least one dose
131 million people
Sunday, 84 million, fully vaccinated
Anyone aged over 18 is now eligible
Dr. Fauci
US remains in a precarious position
US cases going up
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
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