1/9 - “Il est capital d’associer une ambitieuse politique de vaccination de toute la population, à une stratégie complémentaire dite de « suppression » c’est-à-dire visant la circulation minimale du virus sur le territoire.” atlantico.fr/article/decryp…
2/9 - “Avec une couverture vaccinale certes presque 3 fois plus élevée aux USA qu’en Europe (30 contre 12%), mais très inférieure au seuil d’immunité collective, on ne pouvait pas espérer que les USA puissent se trouver en mesure de bloquer une nouvelle vague de contaminations.”
3/9 - “Seuls les pays qui arriveront à réduire substantiellement la circulation du virus devraient pouvoir être en mesure de rouvrir rapidement leur vie sociale et économique, tout en continuant à vacciner massivement leur population.”
4/9 - “Ce sursaut de la pandémie que l’on observe dans de nombreux pays nous montre que nous ne pouvons pas continuer la stratégie qui consiste à espérer « vivre avec » le virus. Cette stratégie insuffisante pour lutter contre ce coronavirus.”
5/9-“La stratégie de suppression peut être considérée comme un premier pas vers le #ZeroCovid et tous les pays d’Europe devraient rapidement s’en inspirer. Les Japonais ou les Sud-Coréens ont choisi ce modèle de suppression, mais aussi en Europe les Finlandais et les Norvégiens.”
6/9 - “Il faudrait donc que la France, après ce troisième confinement n’accepte plus d’enregistrer plus de 5.000 cas par jour sur son territoire, et alors elle pourra espérer retrouver une vie sociale et économique très proche de la normale.”
7/9 - “Les mesures actuelles (fermeture des écoles et mesures de confinement et de restriction de la mobilité des Français) devraient permettre de parvenir à moins de 5.000 cas par jour en l’espace de cinq à six semaines (mais probablement pas en trois ou quatre semaines).”
8/9 - “il faudrait se préparer à mettre en œuvre les 4 piliers de cette stratégie de “suppression”: 1. Contrôle sanitaire très strict aux frontières, 2. Recherche rétrospective (“à la japonaise”) des contacts, 3. Recours plus intensif aux traces digitales, 4. Isolement efficace.”
9/9 -“Si plusieurs pays européens partagent ensemble cette vision, alors ils pourraient s’unir pour créer un espace sécurisé commun à l’intérieur duquel les citoyens pourraient circuler sans risques et que le pass sanitaire pourra appuyer. N’était-ce pas l’objectif de Schengen ?”
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1/6 - “The Indian state of Maharashtra, home to financial capital Mumbai and more than 100m people, introduced sweeping restrictions on the public and businesses as the country’s daily Covid-19 caseload hit a record high.” ft.com/content/5b5443…
2/6 - “India reported 103,000 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, registering the highest number of daily infections globally. It surpassed its previous peak of nearly 100,000 daily cases in September.”
3/6 - “The restrictions in Maharashtra include a night-time curfew and weekend lockdown, while all but essential shops are to close. Most private offices will shut, restaurants only be available for takeaway and public gatherings have been curtailed.”
1/15 - “More than a year after the start of the pandemic, Europe is enduring a grim spring. #COVID19 infections, hosp and deaths are rising in many countries [...] with a more infectious variant, a shortage of vaccines and public weariness with lockdowns.” ft.com/content/d1af35…
2/15 - “In 2 weeks, the number of recorded new cases in France had risen 55% to about 38,000 a day. This 2-week growth compares with a rise of 95% in Belgium and 48% in the Netherlands; in Germany, they have risen 75%. Part of this increase reflects an expansion in testing.”
3/15 - “The latest pandemic surge in Europe, triggered by the spread of the now dominant B.1.1.7 strain of the virus first noted in England, is often called a “third wave”, but observed across the continent as a whole it is more like a confused sea.”
2/22. Portugal (and the United-Kingdom) have both landed in their #COVID19 safety zones, and will stay in them, R-eff=0.94 (and 0.77), with very low levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
In PRT (and the UK), 13% (and 45%) received at least one dose of vaccine.
3/22. Ireland (and Denmark) are slowly landing towards their #COVID19 safety zone, with R-eff=0.93 (and 0.96), at medium levels, and decreasing (plateauing) in mortality, at low (very low) level, for 7 more days.
2/11 - Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is experiencing a rise, at high level, in its #COVID19 epidemic activity (R-eff=1.11), increasing in mortality at high levels, for 7 more days.
Bourgogne-et-Franche-Comté are rising at high level too (1.13), with high mortality.
3/11 - Corsica is plateauing at high levels of activity, in its #COVID19 epidemic activity (R-eff=1.04), with no expected mortality, for 7 more days.
1/9 - “On July 18, 2020, the Western Sydney Public Health Unit was notified of a positive #SARSCoV2 test result for an 18-year-old man. He reported symptom onset of malaise and headache on July 16 and cough and fever on July 17. He was a church chorist.” wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27…
2/9 - “The case-patient had sung from a choir loft, elevated 3.5 m above the congregation, which he entered before and left after the service. He denied touching objects in the church or mixing with the congregation. Video recordings of the services corroborated this history.”
3/9 - “On July 19, the church informed the community about the case-patient, prompting testing among members. On July 20, 2 additional case-patients who reported attendance on July 15 and 16 [were notified]. Neither was known by the primary case-patient.”
1/9 - “Millions of Hindus have gathered on the banks of India’s sacred Ganges river to celebrate the Kumbh Mela, even as health officials warned that the country’s health system was at serious risk from surging #COVID19 cases.” ft.com/content/1b50e4…
2/9 - “Public health experts feared the month-long festival, which is expected to draw tens of millions of pilgrims to the temple town of Haridwar in Uttarakhand province, will accelerate infections. Cases have already risen sharply across the country in recent weeks.”
3/9 - “It’s obviously a matter of great concern,” said K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, a charity. “Any large gathering of people has the potential to be a superspreader event.”