Thread by @MonicaGandhi9

With 0 deaths across England from COVID today, I am reminded that on April 22, 2021, England downgraded its epidemic to "endemic" status when an infection no longer is causing morbidity/mortality to justify extreme measures adopted earlier without vax
news.yahoo.com/covid-pandemic…

Now the UK is at 58% 1st dose and we are at about 50% 1st dose because they adopted a 1st dose first strategy so going faster than we - please see World Vaccine tracker here. And UK does a lot of testing & has seen B.1.617 but has not changed 0 death mark
ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinat…

You can see and track cases/hospitalizations/deaths here at Worldometer across regions & this is what UK rate looks like. When hospitalizations/deaths become DECOUPLED from cases with vax, not prudent to track cases as metric of re-opening (or variants)
worldometers.info/coronavirus/co…

Schools opened full-time in March in UK with kids <12 not requiring masks (teachers vax). On May 17, UK stopped masking for older children (12-18) because admissions so low (adult vax); learning enhanced without masks; they used clean metric (had downgraded to endemic on April 22

UK/Europe has had better approach to in-person learning than US all along. Here are numbers in CA. 5 deaths across state with our current first vax rate of 63.9% (covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-pr…). Lowest in-person learning in US
covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboar…