Note the high connectivity to Florida from the midwest, Michigan in particular.
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When we map community clusters: Florida is the same mega cluster as the Midwest.
Areas of the mega cluster are shown in grey shades.
The second figure shows the mobility of each county.
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Miami-Dade, FL has the largest number of cases in the last 14 days of any county in the US: 14,912.
Wayne county in MI: 7,203.
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Bad news: India reported the highest number of cases and fatalities since last year. This happened on the anniversary of the first nationwide lockdown. New rules on contact tracing and isolation announced by Ministry of Home Affairs.
Note: When restrictions were relaxed cases went up. Those who claimed India’s decline from over 90,000 to just over 10,000 new cases per day was due to magic were incorrect.
Stronger lockdowns needed now.
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Taiwan, with quarantines for all arrivals, is launching a first quarantine-free "travel bubble" April 1, with the nation of Palau. Travelers will be able to visit both countries for up to eight days.
"Seven weeks ago, channelling a number of renowned experts, I warned many parts of Canada would experience a third wave if leaders didn’t get off their collective asses and change their failing strategy of yo-yo closures and openings with no regard for exponential growth.
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"Instead I recommended a no-nonsense elimination strategy — the Canadian Shield — with clear targets for reducing transmission devised by a collection of Canadian experts with the goal of banishing this multi-organ disease from our borders.
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Germany adds new travel restrictions on France as “the pandemic in Germany is exploding faster than they thought";
Travel restrictions are also being applied to some areas within France. The greater Paris region is one of the worst affected areas bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez thanked the Navajo people, health care workers, frontline workers and others “Once again, the Navajo Nation is exemplifying what can be accomplished when we listen to the public health experts and work together."
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In Germany, as a new increase in cases accelerates one month after a minimum that was not very low, Chancellor Merkel points to presence of the UK variant as a new pandemic, more lethal, with more and longer transmission.
In the past month, US effective reproduction number (Rt) has risen from 0.78 (historical low), back up above R=1.
Why is Rt rising? We keep relaxing restrictions, and new variants are accelerating transmission even as vaccinations are happening
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This shows up in case counts, where the recent decline in cases has reversed and cases are now growing. With reopening across the country, as well as new variants, growth will accelerate into a “4th wave”
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Vaccinations shouldn't be expected to be a get-out-of-jail-free card in ending the pandemic. New variants not only accelerate transmission, they can undermine immunity of prior infection and vaccination. The best strategy is to aim for elimination using vaccination to help.
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