Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #91

[margarita25]

While we usually post these JHU videos daily, I thought it would be interesting to look at them comparatively/collectively, back to back, in a single setting:

Jan.5

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[astheworldfallsdown]

COVID-19: Travellers arriving in England and Scotland will need negative tests to be granted entry

All travellers to England and Scotland from overseas will need to test negative for coronavirus before they are allowed to enter the country, the government has announced.

The test will need to be taken up to 72 hours before their departure - and failure to comply will result in an immediate £500 fine.

Arrivals by boat, plane and train are covered by the new regulations, which also apply to UK nationals.

 

[sds71]

[URL='https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.07.425740v1'] New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two highly contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa...[/URL]
[URL='https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.07.425740v1']The Pfizer study found that the vaccine appeared to work against 15 additional possible virus mutations, but E484K wasn’t among those tested. Dormitzer said it is next on the list.
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[URL="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.07.425740v1"]Neutralization of N501Y mutant SARS-CoV-2 by BNT162b2 vaccine-elicited sera
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Pfizer study suggests vaccine works against virus variant

 

[Skigh]

COVID-19: Travellers arriving in England and Scotland will need negative tests to be granted entry

All travellers to England and Scotland from overseas will need to test negative for coronavirus before they are allowed to enter the country, the government has announced.

The test will need to be taken up to 72 hours before their departure - and failure to comply will result in an immediate £500 fine.

Arrivals by boat, plane and train are covered by the new regulations, which also apply to UK nationals.

This should have been done last April. Even this latest testing does not come into force until next week.

100,000 Brits abroad have five days to get home or face being banned without negative Covid test | Daily Mail Online

 

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[margarita25]

Genomic Evidence of a Sars-Cov-2 Reinfection Case With E484K Spike Mutation in Brazil

 

[dixiegirl1035]

While we usually post these JHU videos daily, I thought it would be interesting to look at them comparatively/collectively, back to back, in a single setting:



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[Skigh]

Mayor Sadiq Khan declares a major incident in London | Daily Mail Online

Mayor Sadiq Khan declares a major incident in London and demands masks are worn in ALL public places as he warns the spread of coronavirus is now 'out of control'

• The number of cases in London is now above 1,000 per 100,000 people
• 477 deaths in hospitals following a positive test for Covid-19 in last three days
• Khan wants masks to be worn routinely outside of the home, including shopping

 

[drama_farmer]

Something to watch for. Post vaccine.
Death of Florida doctor following COVID-19 vaccine under investigation


Dr. Gregory Michael, 56, an OB-GYN at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, died after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke apparently resulting from a lack of platelets.

Miami medical examiners are investigating his death,the Florida Department of Health said in a statement.

In a Facebook post, Michael's wife, Heidi Neckelmann, said he sought emergency care three days after the shot because he had dots on his skin that indicated internal bleeding.

The condition she said led to his stroke, called thrombocytopenia, results from a lower-than-normal number of platelets, which help the blood clot.

I hope that whomever injected the vaccine double checked the vial to make sure they wouldn't accidentally inject the wrong thing.

I wouldn't have thought that possible... Until it did actually happen in a recent case. Imo

 

[dmac55]

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[anneg]

DH and I just made vaccine appointments for Wednesday of next week! So excited. We are in NC. The vaccine clinic is run by the UNC Health system. We are in group 1b: people age 75 and older.

 

[Amonet]

Update on 2 folks I know personally that have been hospitalized.

One went home today, 92% O2 level at checkout while ON oxygen. She had the 5 rounds of Remdesivir and steroids and out she goes. Went home with Oxygen tank. (Yeah, you and I are thinking the same damn thing I bet..they need the bed). She said one of the worst things was how many times a day she heard code blue and the commotion that ensues (or doesn't).

Other family friend still in hospital.

Even aside from the obvious trauma of being in hospital, fighting for breath for days or weeks, fighting for your life...I can't imagine what it would be like to know that people in other beds were dying around you, even one would be traumatising

 

[sds71]

CNN
@SaraMurray
Biden will release all available vaccine doses in break from Trump administration policy of holding back stock for second dose
Exclusive: Biden will release all available vaccine doses in break from Trump administration policy of holding back stock for second dose - CNNPolitics

 

[Cool Cats]

Pfizer vaccine shows signs of efficacy against new coronavirus variants in laboratory study

 

[Skigh]

UK records 1,325 more Covid deaths as count DOUBLES in a week and 68,000 new cases - as SAGE warns R rate could now be as high as 1.4 and up to 150,000 people are catching Covid each day

Up to 150,000 people are catching Covid each day in Britain | Daily Mail Online

This sounds so worrying.

 

[nightowl1975]

CNN
@SaraMurray
Biden will release all available vaccine doses in break from Trump administration policy of holding back stock for second dose
Exclusive: Biden will release all available vaccine doses in break from Trump administration policy of holding back stock for second dose - CNNPolitics

Looks like we’re about to find out if that second dose, and its timing, is critical after all. I’m curious to see how people take this news who were staunch opponents to even the hint of deviating from the two dose schedule. There’s no way we will have enough second doses available in a timely fashion with this plan.

Selfishly, I’m relieved my second dose is scheduled for 1/18, so whatever supply issues we might see going forward with second doses won’t be an issue for me personally.

 

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[10ofRods]

Looks like we’re about to find out if that second dose, and its timing, is critical after all. I’m curious to see how people take this news who were staunch opponents to even the hint of deviating from the two dose schedule. There’s no way we will have enough second doses available in a timely fashion with this plan.

Selfishly, I’m relieved my second dose is scheduled for 1/18, so whatever supply issues we might see going forward with second doses won’t be an issue for me personally.

I don't think you're selfish - I'm glad you're getting in under the wire.

I tend to agree that we won't have enough doses available, although it looks like a 6 week gap is about as effective as a 3-4 week gap. The 3-4 week recommendation was guided by getting people to full immunity faster - now it will take longer, but many people will have enough immunity to avoid a serious case of COVID - we have to get our hospital situation under control immediately. It's a huge deviation from plan, but I get it.

Johnson and Johnson debuts its vaccine in February (I think it's an adenovirus/deactivated type, IIRC) and it requires only one dose. Also, I think Biden will use the Wartime Powers Act to induce rapid production of more Modern and Pfizer (patent issues will be worked out quickly). It's not as if these things are difficult to produce, really.

So hopefully, the CDC can come up with a medically reasonable plan, we can get more vaccines into production phase.

Further, some states will decide to keep to the 2 dose schedule - it'll be up to them. But we're talking millions of people to innoculate...we're still on medical personnel here in California - they've been given their first info on how to get the vaccine - it's going to take a few weeks to do all of the people out in private practice, local clinics, etc.

 

[weepingangel]

Yay!
My 2nd one is Monday - can’t wait to get ‘Er done

no link just heard on the news this morning that the moderna shot will protect for a few years?
I don’t know if thats anything new or significant. Or just random news story blah blah blah

DH and I just made vaccine appointments for Wednesday of next week! So excited. We are in NC. The vaccine clinic is run by the UNC Health system. We are in group 1b: people age 75 and older.

 

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