Important!
British Columbia, Canada, declared they will restrict travel between health zones: Divide and conquer strategy is key to winning.
Next step: Stop transmission by rapid identification and supported quarantine.
Here is the roadmap:
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covidactiongroup.net/roadmap-to-eli…
British Columbia, Canada, declared they will restrict travel between health zones: Divide and conquer strategy is key to winning.
Next step: Stop transmission by rapid identification and supported quarantine.
Here is the roadmap:
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covidactiongroup.net/roadmap-to-eli…
India's cases and deaths continue to reach all-time highs.
Multiple reports on double mutant variant are inconsistent about its role. Limited sequencing being done. It may well be important. Reports of a tripple mutant variant surfacing.
Vaccines at risk.
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Multiple reports on double mutant variant are inconsistent about its role. Limited sequencing being done. It may well be important. Reports of a tripple mutant variant surfacing.
Vaccines at risk.
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"Rajeshwari Devi, 58, died on Sunday after waiting for two days to get uninterrupted oxygen, an ambulance and a bed in a Covid-19 hospital.
"She kept waiting and gasping but it was too late by the time help arrived.
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"She kept waiting and gasping but it was too late by the time help arrived.
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"She was taken to a hospital emergency room on 16 April after her oxygen saturation level dropped. Her CT scan showed that she had developed chronic pneumonia.
"But without her Covid report the hospital refused to admit her.
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"But without her Covid report the hospital refused to admit her.
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"She spent around 36 hours in emergency room on oxygen support in the northern Indian district of Robertsganj. The staff there told her family they were running out of oxygen and she needed to be moved to a bigger hospital but there was no ambulance or any promise of a bed.
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"The desperate family took her in their car to a hospital where a bed had become available after the intervention of a politician. She had no oxygen support in the car - she died minutes before she could be admitted to hospital.
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"Ashish Agrahari, her son, says his mother "would have had a chance at survival if treatment was given in time".
"Heartbreaking stories such as this are coming in from across India as a second Covid wave wreaks havoc.
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"Heartbreaking stories such as this are coming in from across India as a second Covid wave wreaks havoc.
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"But the county's healthcare system is crumbling amid the surge in cases - doctors say it's hard for them to "see the light at the end of the tunnel this time".
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"Experts say this rapid increase shows that the second wave is spreading much faster across the country. Dr A Fathahudeen, member of Kerala state's Covid taskforce
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"said the rise was not entirely unexpected given that India let its guard down when daily infections in January fell to fewer than 20,000 from a peak of over 90,000 in September.
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"Dr Fathahudeen said there were warning signs in February but "we did not get our act together".
"I said in February that Covid had not gone anywhere and a tsunami would hit us if urgent actions were not taken. Sadly, a tsunami has indeed hit us now," he added.
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"I said in February that Covid had not gone anywhere and a tsunami would hit us if urgent actions were not taken. Sadly, a tsunami has indeed hit us now," he added.
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"A false sense of normalcy crept in and everybody, including people and officials, did not take measures to stop the second wave."
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"Sanjeev Gupta, a photojournalist based in the central Indian city of Bhopal, reached one of the city's crematoriums for what he thought was a usual assignment last week.
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"Mr Gupta says he was moved when a young man asked him to photograph the smoke coming out from the chimney of the electric crematorium.
"He said the smoke represented his mother. It's the most heartbreaking thing I have ever heard."
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"He said the smoke represented his mother. It's the most heartbreaking thing I have ever heard."
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New Zealand is barring travelers who've visited India -- including New Zealand citizens.
By comparison, the US is merely advising that Americans avoid travel to India -- while not placing any formal restrictions.
By comparison, the US is merely advising that Americans avoid travel to India -- while not placing any formal restrictions.
https://twitter.com/SiddiquiMaha/status/1384343599588909062
UK is denying entry to travelers who have visited India in the last 10 days, with exemptions for its own citizens, who may enter the country but must quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days. Such mandatory quarantines are key in any exemptions to a travel ban.
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Notably, however, the UK is applying this restriction *after* letting at least 103 cases of the Indian variant enter the country. There is now community transmission of the new variant in the UK (i.e., several cases have been detected with no links to international travel).
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The critical time to apply travel restrictions is *before* a new variant enters your country, not after. We have known about the Indian variant -- and the country's rapid increase in cases, which may be linked -- for quite some time.
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We recommend all countries immediately impose travel restrictions, including mandatory quarantine, for any travelers arriving from India.
Such restrictions should also apply to other countries where the Indian variant has been found, including the UK.
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Such restrictions should also apply to other countries where the Indian variant has been found, including the UK.
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With 6.37% of the world partially vaccinated, and 2.6% fully vaccinated, we have barely reached any level of population immunity worldwide. We can continue to expect new variants, which will potentially be more infectious and more vaccine-evading than existing ones.
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Thanks to @geekblake for helping prepare today's update.
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