Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 18April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Summary:
New US cases of the coronavirus continued to inch a bit higher this week, while deaths attributed to the virus continued to fall. New Covid infections during the week ending April 17th were 2.2% higher than during the week ending April 10th, and up 26.5% from the 7 days ending March 16th (a six month low), but still down 72.6% from the early January peak. US Covid deaths were down 2.5% from the prior week, and down 78.7%
Models point to India s COVID-19 cases peaking in May, but it depends on policy and people
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Are Birth Control Pills 1000 Times More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Than The J&J Vaccine? Posted on
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Birth control pills are 1,000 times more likely to cause blood clots than the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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An April 13 2021 Facebook screenshot of a tweet was part of disordered discourse surrounding a “pause” by the Biden administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for COVID-19. As conspiracy theories about and disinformation about the efficacy of the various vaccines got a fresh boost, others attempted to put the numbers into perspective.
One popular exchange on Twitter on this topic suggested that birth control pills were a thousand times more likely to cause blood clots than this particular vaccine:
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By Chris Kay and Andre Romani, Bloomberg
16 Apr 2021 07:33
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Facing a sudden surge in coronavirus infections, India is once again home to the worldâs second-largest outbreak, overtaking Brazil after the latter moved ahead in March. But behind the bleak statistical jockeying is an epidemiological enigma over why the Latin American country has been far more devastated by the pathogen.
When it comes to the scale of infections, the two nations are similarly matched, with cases hovering near 14 million and hospitals from Mumbai to Sao Paulo under increasing pressure as admissions continue to rise. But itâs the divergence in fatalities that has scientists puzzled. Brazil, home to almost 214 million, has seen more than 361 800 people die from Covid-19, more than double the number of deaths in India, which has a far greater population of 1.4 billion.
Covid Is Deadlier in Brazil Than India and No One Knows Why Covid Is Deadlier in Brazil Than India and No One Knows Why When it comes to the scale of infections, the two nations are similarly matched, with cases hovering around 14 million and hospitals from Mumbai to Sao Paulo under increasing pressure as admissions continue to rise.
A health worker in PPE assists a patient at a makeshift Covid-19 quarantine facility.
Facing a sudden surge in coronavirus infections, India is once again home to the world s second-largest outbreak, overtaking Brazil after the latter moved ahead in March. But behind the bleak statistical jockeying is an epidemiological enigma over why the Latin American country has been far more devastated by the pathogen.
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