Covid: UK hits 85m jab milestone amid discount push for young
Cheap travel and takeaways will be offered in a bid to boost vaccine uptake among young people.
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I am not sure SAGE ever discloses that.
Good summary. But no author(s), references or such. Any info on who wrote it?
He's right. These morons are going to get us all killed unless given a compelling reason to refrain from their behaviors that are hurting other people.Showing his frustration with those US citizens who won’t get vaccinated.
Dr Fauci says ‘things are going to get worse’ as Delta coronavirus cases surge in US
‘Things are going to get worse,’ Dr Fauci tells ABC’s This Weekwww.google.co.uk
In interviews with Reuters, disease experts said the three papers suggest a greater risk from the variant, but the study populations are limited and the findings have not yet been reviewed by outside experts. Doctors treating patients infected with Delta described a more rapid onset of COVID-19 symptoms, and in many regions an overall increase serious cases.
But the experts said more work is needed to compare outcomes among larger numbers of individuals in epidemiologic studies to sort out whether one variant causes more severe disease than another.
The majority of hospitalizations and deaths from coronavirus in the United States are occurring in people who have not been vaccinated. But there is evidence that the shots are less effective in people with compromised immune systems, including the elderly.
For vaccinated, otherwise healthy individuals, the odds are that if they contract COVID-19 they will only experience asymptomatic or mild disease, said Dr. Gregory Poland, infectious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic.
"But they can pass it on to family members and others who may not be so lucky," Poland said. "We have to be vaccinated and masked or we will, for the fourth time now, endure another surge and out of that will come worse variants."
Research from China suggesting that the Delta variant replicates much faster and generates 1,000 times more virus in the body compared to the original strain highlights the biggest danger of this new wave, Barron said.
"It is hard to tell if they are more sick because of the Delta variant or if they would have been more sick anyway," she said.
Other doctors said patients infected with Delta appear to become ill more quickly, and in some cases with more severe symptoms, than those they treated earlier in the pandemic.
David Montefiori, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University Medical Center, said the Delta variant is more infectious and leads to faster onset of illness - particularly for the unvaccinated.
"Frankly there's a severity that comes from this variant that is a little more severe," Montefiori said on a webcast last week. "It's not just easier to transmit, it makes you sicker."
Yup! It's a war, after all. We did worse to people among our midst who turned traitor in previous wars. Antivaxxers are traitors, and so was that idiot who ordered that violent deadly coup attempt on January 6. Treat both sets of traitors EXACTLY THE SAME."... are going to get us all killed..." The spokesperson for the White House stated that the Administration is reviewing all scenarios. I am confident that the U.S. will take appropriate action. As President Biden said, 'People are dying that don't have to die.' So, where does he draw the line? Arrest those who refuse vaccination?
Combining AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine with a second dose from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna’s jab provides “good protection”, Denmark’s State Serum Institute said on Monday.
A growing number of countries are looking at switching to different COVID-19 vaccines for second doses, a measure particularly necessary in Denmark after health authorities discontinued inoculations with AstraZeneca’s vaccine in April over rare side-effect concerns.
More than 144,000 Danes, mostly frontline personnel in the health sector and the elderly, received their first jab with AstraZeneca’s vaccine but were subsequently vaccinated with either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna’s shots.
“The study shows that fourteen days after a combined vaccination program, the risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 is reduced by 88% compared to unvaccinated individuals,” the State Serum Institute (SSI) said.
It could not conclude whether the same protection applied to the Delta-variant, which is now the most widespread in Denmark.
It also provided no efficacy data on COVID-19 related deaths or hospitalisations, since none took place following the combined vaccination programme.
Johnson dumps amber watchlist plan as it emerges top adviser has quit
Proposals for tougher quarantine rules for some holidaymakers killed off after cabinet revoltwww.theguardian.com
*Sigh*
Nearly all those dying in the U.K. are unvaccinated. Those who do die and are fully vaccinated I expect are coming from vulnerable groups which obviously isn’t good for those in these sections.
The hairdo horror of that man was only matched by D J Trump. He looks as if he has a mop or rag on his (ugly) head.
Exactly. Don't these people know there's a war on?Oh please. Now we're talking about hairdos? Seriously. There is a health crisis out there. If everyone listened and acted 100% according to the correct guidelines, we would be exiting this right now. That's right. Take a quarantined patient in a hospital. They are infected. Do we just let them run about? No. Of course not. But thanks to the leniency of world governments, with the exception of a country that will not be named, this will end the hard way: More DEATH, followed by more DEATH.
But, by the end of the year, there's hope for an antiviral pill or capsule to appear. The package will have no political party markings on it.
But if the Sars contingency plan, uncovered now after 16 years, had been adapted the UK’s response would have been far more proactive as Covid spread from China to Europe early last year. Many of the measures it highlights later became key flashpoints for the UK’s outbreak and debate over restrictions, from international travel to limiting mass gatherings and protecting healthcare settings.
This step-by-step framework, which works its way through six alert levels – from zero to five – depending on the severity of an outbreak, would have shaped many aspects of Britain’s response to Covid as far back as January 2020.
Indonesia recorded a grim milestone of more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, data from the country’s health ministry showed, with the Southeast Asian nation recently accounting for one in five fatalities globally.
Indonesia has been battling a tide of coronavirus infections and deaths driven by the highly contagious Delta variant for the past month, as the country has quickly become Asia’s coronavirus epicentre.
Launching an ambitious campaign in January to inoculate 208 million people by next year, Southeast Asia’s biggest country has so far vaccinated less than 11% of that target, hampered by supply and logistical issues as well as vaccine hesitancy.
In a bid to speed up the rollout, the health ministry said this week that people without an identity card would also be able to get vaccinated, a move intended to reach the country’s most vulnerable.