Vaccine tracker
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
United States
Cases, + 277,897 = 20,171,916
Up 7.5% in past 7 days
Hospitalisations, 123,614 (23,133) (7,910)
Deaths, 341,746
CDC trends
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
Official US hospitalizations
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html
https://covidtracking.com
Sequenced 51,000 viruses
SA, B1.3.5.1.
US, New variant B.1.1.7
Colorado
California
Florida
Man in his 20s
No recent travel history
UK
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases
Cases, + 53,258 + 57,725 = 2,599,789
Hospitalised, + 2,434 = 23,823 (ventilated, 1,847)
Previous peak, 12 April = 21,683
Injections versus infections
Vaccinated, 616,933
Deaths, + 613 + 445 = 74,507
Deaths, + 3,270 = 82,624
Vaccination, first dose total, 944,539
Professor Andrew Goddard, president, Royal College of Physicians
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55514363
Hospitals across the UK should prepare for London levels
Case numbers will increase next week
Case numbers were mild compared to where they would be in a week
Doctors were really worried
Almost half of the major hospital trusts in England are dealing with more Covid-19 than at the peak of the first wave
NHS having its busiest winter ever
There’s no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact,
the new variant is also going to have a big impact,
we know that is more infectious, more transmissible,
so I think the large numbers that we’re seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country
London’s Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients
Other sites currently not in use are being readied
Dr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant
When we see the daily figures – we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days
Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire – and we haven’t got much more space in the hospitals left
UK, Schools
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55511662
NEU, All schools in England should shut for two weeks after the Christmas break
As well as London
Rise in cases in secondary school age groups
Mass testing?
France
Hundreds vaccinated
Population, 67 million
Every day, 55 vaccines
Oxford vaccine not in the press
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55513167
Illegal rave, Brittany, 2,500
Very well organised, food stalls
Also people from UK and Spain
Three police injured
Anyone leaving the event urged to self-isolate for seven days
India
Two vaccines approved
Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)
Serum Institute, AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine
Bharat Biotech, Covaxin
Inactivated form of the coronavirus
Phase 1 and 2 complete, phase 3 began in November
No serious side effect
Good antibody response
Mass vaccine distribution drill
Initial 300 million people
Pakistan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistan-coronavirus-vaccine/2020/12/31/b2582d5e-4843-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html
Population, 233 million
Polio, conspiracy theories
Chinese, CanSino trials
Adenovirus vector, Ad5
Phase 2 trials published, August 15,
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31605-6/fulltext
Promising efficacy and safety data
Rolling out in China, before confirmed as safe and effective
One-time injection
Fridge temperatures
Since September, 13,000 of 18,000 volunteers have participated
No serious side effects have been reported
Finish the trials and start distributing by March
Also trialling in Russia, Mexico and Chile.
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