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US Covid resurgence driven by younger adults
As of October 2020, individuals aged 20-49 were the only groups sustaining COVID-19 transmission with reproduction numbers well above 1 in the US.
Following initial declines, numbers of COVID-19 cases started to rise again halfway through 2020 in the United States and Europe. In September the team published Report 32 as a pre-print, using age-specific mobility data from across the United states and linking these to age-specific COVID-19 mortality. Their findings pointed out that targeting interventions to adults aged 20-49 could facilitate safe reopening of schools and kindergartens.
Mobility and mortality
The peer reviewed publication in Science today by the Imperial College COVID-19 Response team includes new data up to October 2020. The updated analysis of aggregated age-specific mobility data from more than 10 million individuals in the US, shows that 65 of 100 COVID-19 infections still originated from individuals aged 2
Vaccines against 10 diseases prevented 37 million deaths in low- and middle-income countries in the last 20 years
Vaccines against 10 diseases prevented 37 million deaths in low- and middle-income countries in the last 20 years 29 January 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png Share
Vaccine programmes in low- and middle-income countries have prevented 37 million deaths in the last 20 years alone – 36 million of which would have been in children aged under-five, according to new research published today in
The research is the most comprehensive study of the impact of vaccination programmes ever. It was conducted by the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (VIMC) – a multinational collaboration of 16 research groups, including experts from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM
LONDON: Some parts of England are showing a plateau in cases of Covid-19, while the rate of growth across the country as a whole is slowing, a senior epidemiologist has said.Professor Neil Ferguson,.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: “Superb news that we’ve administered over 3 million vaccine doses across the UK.
“Thank you to all who have responded to the call and to the NHS, Armed Forces and volunteers who make it happen.
“It brings real hope, but it’s critical that for now we #StayHome SaveLives.”
Preliminary figures for England showed that 2.91million jabs had been carried out by Wednesday, including 2.49million first doses and 415,000 second doses. This is a rise of 248,177 on Tues-day’s figures which highlights the speeding up of the jabs.
More than a third of people aged over 80 in England have now received at least one of the two jabs needed for full protection.