Will there be a fourth wave of COVID-19?
and last updated 2021-04-01 22:34:36-04 Right now, I m scared, Walensky said during a press briefing on Monday.
What would a fourth wave of COVID look like? In Virginia, cases are down dramatically from January, but appear to have leveled off recently. The number of people being vaccinated continues to grow, especially among the most vulnerable. I am hopeful that we will not see a fourth wave. What s going on is we have two things going in opposite directions, said Dr. Bill Petri from the University of Virginia, referring to vaccinations rising and the British variant of the virus spreading.
Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer, according to a new study of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Covid-19 pandemic caused approximately 375,000 deaths in the US during 2020. The Covid-19 death rate was the highest among Hispanics, the study published on Wednesday, revealed, Xinhua reported. Covid-19 death rates were the lowest among children aged 1 to 4 years and 5 to 14 years, and the highest among those aged over 85 years. Meanwhile, the age-adjusted Covid-19 associated death rate among males was higher than that among females, according to the study.
Savannah skips famed St. Patrick s parade, but party goes on
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1of6St. Patrick s Day revelers in masks wait in line outside to get into a bar in Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Despite its 197-year-old parade being cancelled, Savannah welcomed thousands of tourists for the Irish holiday. Some city officials worried the celebration could start an outbreak of the coronavirus.Russ Bynum/APShow MoreShow Less
2of6Shanna and Tyson Campbell sip drinks in their St. Patrick s Day costumes as they celebrate in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Even with the city s 197-year-old parade canceled, Savannah saw a large number of tourists return for the Irish holiday. Some city officials worried the celebration could cause a coronavirus outbreak.Russ Bynum/APShow MoreShow Less
Public trust is a key ingredient to successful vaccination programmes
A little over 392 million doses of vaccine have been administered globally, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, with India accounting for around 9% of them. In the last week, there have been a flurry of reports from Europe, of blood clots developing in a very small fraction of those vaccinated and leading to a cascade of European countries announcing a temporary halt to their vaccination programmes involving the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine. WHO and the European Medicines Agency have underlined that there is no causal link between vaccines and the occurrence of such clots. In fact, there are less than 40 such occurrences reported so far, and that is much below the background of about 1,000 to 2,000 blood clots every single day in the general population, say studies based on the U.S. population. These organisations advocate that the ongoing vaccination drives continue, even accelerate, as the rate of vaccinati