Brazil and Russia seeing fresh waves of cases. Brazil counted a record number of new cases of #COVID19 on Thursday, while Russia, with high #DeltaVariant cases, saw its highest tally since late January. Both only 10-11% fully vaccinated. on.mktw.net/3gTGN1E
2) Meanwhile, U.S. vaccine program, meanwhile, has slowed sharply in recent days, as fewer people are making appointments. CDC says 45.4% of the overall population, are fully vaccinated, up only 0.1% from day prior.
3) “But experts are concerned at the low take-up rate in Southern states, in particular, where many are still below 40% of their populations fully vaccinated. The list includes Alabama,, Mississippi and Louisiana.
4) In Ohio, a lottery offering millions of dollars in prize money as an incentive to get a jab has ended, with the rate still below 50%. Got good initial response but “Clearly the impact went down after that second week,” DeWine said Wednesday
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⚠️WEAR MASK EVEN IF VACCINATED—Top @WHO leader urges masks against #DeltaVariant even if 2-dose vaxxed. "Vaccine alone won't stop community transmission. People need to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces—even if you're vaccinated" #COVID19🧵 cnbc.com/2021/06/25/del…
2) "People cannot feel safe just because they had the two doses. They still need to protect themselves," WHO official Dr. Mariangela Simao @mariangelasimao told reporters.
3) The WHO comments come as some countries, including the Us, have largely done away with masks and pandemic-related restrictions as the Covid vaccines have helped drive down the number of new infections and deaths.
BREAKING—Sydney 🇦🇺 just announced a two week lockdown for Greater Sydney because of #DeltaVariant. “If we’re going to do this, we need to do it properly. There’s no point doing a 3-day and then having #COVID19 continue to bubble away in the community.” theguardian.com/australia-news…
2) “at this stage, the best health advice we have is that a 2-week period or until midnight on Friday, July 9, is necessary, in order to make sure that we get to our target of zero community transmission, which has always been our target from the beginning of the pandemic.
3) “Given how transmissible the virus is, given extra exposure venues, we know that even the best contact tracers in the world can’t stay a step ahead unless we put this in and we need to do it properly. So there was no point doing 3-5 days because it wouldn’t have done the job.
Let this sink in—Trump wanted to dump returning US tourists with possible #COVID19 on Guantanamo Bay, same maximum security detention center where US detains suspected terrorists. Trump also thought the US “owned” the island—it’s in Cuba 🇨🇺. Insane. HT @damianpaletta@yabutaleb7
2) Even more sociopathic… he had no empathy for sick #COVID19 patients and risk of Covid once he survived his bout with VIP drugs not available to others. What a tale… read thread 🧵
3) According to the book, Trump also was furious at Azar and CDC for doing testing. Testing! Trump thought not doing testing would allow him a victory.
📍Govt leaders used ‘herd immunity by natural infection’ plan to create Boris Johnson’s 🇬🇧roadmap to purposefully “allow #COVID19 to circulate in younger people”. Dangerously “counter to ethics, common sense & science” says @yaneerbaryam.🧵
By @NafeezAhmed bylinetimes.com/2021/06/24/the…
2) “Continuing COVID-19 transmission until summer 2022 will contribute to more than 35% of overall herd immunity, according to one model commissioned by the Government. Among documents from the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) – previously unreported until now…”
3) “– one presented to the group in February summarised modelling by the University of Warwick and Imperial College London based on scenarios defined by the Cabinet Office.
The document signed off by chairs of SAGE’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling sub-group came
NEW—The #SARSCoV2 that causes #COVID19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday. 🧵 reuters.com/world/china/fi…
2) Researchers from Britain's University of Kent used methods from conservation science to estimate that SARS-CoV-2 first appeared from early October to mid-November 2019, according to a paper published in the PLOS Pathogens journal.
3) The most likely date for the virus's emergence was Nov. 17, 2019, and it had probably already spread globally by January 2020.
…some early cases had no known connection with Huanan, implying that SARS-CoV-2 was already circulating before it reached the market.
Let this sink in—the world’s most 2-dose fully vaccinated country, Israel 🇮🇱, is forced to double-back and reinstate its indoor mask mandate. Why? Several fast outbreaks all triggered by the #DeltaVariant, which spread via “fleeting” exposure. #COVID19 timesofisrael.com/israel-to-rein…
2) “If a child has been abroad and arrives at school the next day, this is wrong. And everyone should say that to him and to his parents,” he said. 👀
3) While a majority of adults in Israel have been vaccinated and the country has one of the highest inoculation rates in the world, Ash said the numbers were still far from the 80% figure he said would mark herd immunity.