Thanks to Robert for his excellent clinical trial report
WHO official investigating pandemic warns world to ‘manage expectations’ as team leaves quarantine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/27/official-investigating-pandmeic-origins-warns-world-manage-expectations/?WT.mc_id=e_DM1330317&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_GHS_New_Daily&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_GHS_New_Daily20210128&utm_campaign=DM1330317
Now in Wuhan, team of 13
Dutch virologist, Marion Koopmans
I think we really have to manage expectations,
if you look at some of the earlier quests for the origins of outbreaks,
they have taken years to complete.
Wuhan lab staff, first victims of coronavirus?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/16/mike-pompeo-pushes-new-claim-china-hiding-virus-origin/
Chinese virology laboratory, sick, Covid-like illness in autumn 2019
US, State Department, 16th January
undisclosed information
has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019,
before the first identified case,
with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illnesses
Lab had been carrying out research on a bat coronavirus
The CCP has prevented independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing researchers at the WIV
Chinese authorities, virus was a US military biological weapon
Gao Fu, Director of China’s centers for disease control and prevention
Talking to state media
The coronavirus wasn’t found in any animal samples at seafood market in Wuhan, ground zero of the pandemic
December
BBC team
Visited Yunnan to investigate a mystery illness
Killed three mine workers in 2012
Followed
Broken-down lorry
Yunnan, cave systems, jungle, site of major coronavirus research
Emmanuel Macron
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55869476
AstraZeneca vaccine quasi-ineffective in over 65s
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-recommends-astrazeneca-vaccine-for-under-65s-only/a-56371850
Germany
Vaccine commission, STIKO
Oxford AstraZeneca, only to people aged 64 and under
There is currently insufficient data to assess the efficacy of the vaccine for persons aged 65 years and older
Lancet, 18th November
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32466-1/fulltext
In participants who received two doses of vaccine,
median anti-spike SARS-CoV-2 IgG responses 28 days after the boost dose were similar across the three age cohorts
18–55 years (n = 39)
56–69 years (n=26)
more than 70 years (n=47)
By 14 days after the boost dose, 208 (more than 99%) of 209 boosted participants had neutralising antibody responses.
T-cell responses peaked at day 14 after a single standard dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19
Professor John Bell, Oxford University vaccine team
I’m not sure where he got that from
Other studies proved elderly people responded just as well in other age groups
there’s really persuasive evidence that this is a protective vaccine in those populations
European Medicines Agency, Oxford AZ vaccine
Recommended the product for all adults
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-approves-astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine/a-56378814
safe and effective at preventing COVID-19 in people from 18 years of age
European Commission
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-vaccination-doses-per-capita?tab=map&stackMode=absolute®ion=World
EMA authorised Pfizer, 21st December
HMRA, authorised Pfizer, 2nd December
EMA authorised Oxford AZ vaccine, 29th January
HMRA, authorised Oxford AZ vaccine, 30th December
EMA closed, 23rd December to 4th January
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/01/28/astrazeneca-vaccine-site-belgium-raided-request-european-commission/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr
Increasing manufacturing capacity
Braintree, Essex
Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC), Oxfordshire
US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55853003
Late January, California
200 Americans, evacuated from Wuhan
Health officials, US health department, did not wear proper PPE, bad optics
Days later, these officials boarded commercial airlines and flew to other parts of the country
Nursing home deaths
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/nyregion/nursing-home-deaths-cuomo.html#click=https://t.co/OQPU3KXJl6
New York State Attorney General, Letitia James
Current number up to 12,743
Did not include transfers to hospital
Consistent discrepancies
Deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, about a third of deaths
Mr Cuomo, publication
Oxford, AZ, USA
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55853003
AstraZeneca is ready to launch
As soon as FDA approved
US study is fully recruited
Now waiting for enough Covid cases
He says he imagines this will be in February.
20 minutes in NZ
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55853023
Quarantine hotel worker
Inappropriate encounter
20 minutes in a room together
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