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After yesterday’s AstraZeneca jab I’ve got a bit of a sore upper arm, but no grinding ache. Feel generally just a bit languid and meh. I may even get in the garden and continue the War on Overhanging Branches. OTOH that article about the spread of Covid around India thanks to shitty Government messaging and general delusion about where we are with the pandemic could have been filed about Britain. In fact, with Flobalob sooooo eager to ‘Get Back to Normal Pt 3’ and his refusal to upset h...

The U.S. is preparing for the possibility that a booster shot will be needed between nine to 12 months after people are initially vaccinated against COVID-19, a White House official said https://t.co/kOHpRdm672pic.twitter.com/e0CM8TgF2j The U.S. is opening more distance between itself and much of the rest of the world in the race against the coronavirus. The U.S. has administered almost 200 million vaccine doses as other countries struggle with stubbornly high infection rates and deaths. https:...

#Covid19 vaccination programs across the US are going broad right now, following Pres. Bidens instructions. But @DrTomFrieden argues in this thread that more targeted & more agile approaches are needed, because too many high risk people are still unvaxed. https://t.co/gB8J6aFp20 .@jaketapper asks @SecretaryPete why white evangelicals aren’t getting the vaccine, and what his message would be to them: pic.twitter.com/wKTes7OIam ====== Coronavirus lockdowns are being ordered around the world as ...

new domestic confirmed & new domestic asymptomatic cases. There are currently 84 domestic confirmed & 25 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province. Ruili in Dehong Prefecture reported 0 new domestic positive cases. There are currently 84 domestic confirmed & 24 domestic asymptomatic cases there. 3 communities remain at High Risk. 3 residential compounds, 1 factory & 2 villages remain at Medium Risk. Gengma County in Lincang City did not report any new positive cases. There is 1 domestic...

1,510 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 359.117 cases. He also reports eight new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,321 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.38% of resolved cases. There are currently 1,248 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 342,737 patients recovered – 95.44% of the cumulative reported total. Nine new clusters were reported today: Industri Jalan Kebun and Kampung Kelan...

11 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all in Yunnan Province. There are currently 76 domestic confirmed & 25 domestic asymptomatic cases in the Province. Ruili in Dehong Prefecture reported 11 new domestic confirmed (10 moderate & 1 mild, 3 previously asymptomatic) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There are currently 76 domestic confirmed & 24 domestic asymptomatic cases there. Of the newly detected domestic confirmed cases (all moderate), 3 are Chinese nationals &...

Dr Tom Friedman’s tweets, about how vaccinating the more-vulnerable pays off faster, is where the 95% (or 90% or any other %) efficacy and other epidemiology things really pay off. The statistical stuff works in large populations, and reducing the retransmission rate has compound-interest-like effects. He mentions “future generations of spread”, and with 7 or 14 day incubation and transmission period, “one generation” is as little as “one week”. Compound interest at 7% is how hous...

6 new domestic confirmed & 23 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Ruili in Yunnan Province. There are currently 12 domestic confirmed & 26 domestic asymptomatic cases there. Of the 6 new domestic confirmed cases (3 moderate & 3 mild), 2 are Burmese nationals and 4 are Chinese nationals. 10 of the new domestic asymptomatic cases are Burmese nationals & 12 are Chinese nationals. All 309,448 residents in the city have been swabbed as part of the mass testing campaign, w/ 105,530 results obta...

1,219 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 327,253 cases. He also reports two new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,220 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.39% of resolved cases. There are currently 1,346 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 310,958 patients recovered – 95.02% of the cumulative reported total. 12 new clusters were reported today: Subang Dua, Jalan Lada Sulah, and Meranti Jaya in S...

13 new imported confirmed cases, 7 imported asymptomatic cases: Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 6 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria (1 via Cairo) & 1 each from Egypt, Jordan (via Kathmandu) & the Ukraine (via Amsterdam Schiphol), & a US national coming from Nepal; 6 asymptomatic cases, 4 Chinese nationals returning from Jordan (via Kathmandu) & 2 from Nigeria  Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Mali (via Paris CdG), Ja...