COVID-19 News and Discussions

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12 states have met the Biden administration's goal to vaccinate 70% of adults against Covid-19
Source: cnn

20 min ago

Twelve states have now reached the Biden administration’s goal to vaccinate 70% of adults with at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine by July 4, according to data published Tuesday by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

California and Maryland join Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont in reaching that benchmark.

Overall, 296,404,240 total doses of Covid-19 have been reported administered, about 81% of the 366,317,045 total doses delivered.

The CDC did not update its Covid-19 data tracker on Monday, but about 1.5 million doses have been reported administered since Sunday, for a seven-day average of about 1.2 million doses per day.............................................

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/corona ... 3b3e29d210

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Covid-19: More than half of UK adults have had second jab

41 minutes ago

More than half of UK adults have now had both doses of a coronavirus vaccine, official figures show.

The prime minister, who had his own second jab on Thursday, welcomed the "amazing achievement", tweeting: "Now let's finish the job."

A total of 26,422,303 second doses have been given out since the vaccine rollout began nearly six months ago.

It comes a day after Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed three quarters of UK adults have had a first jab.

Three of the four vaccines approved for use in the UK require two doses for maximum protection against Covid-19.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57346760

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US recorded COVID-19 cases, deaths fall to lowest levels since March 2020
Source: The Hill

COVID-19 cases in the United States have fallen to around 15,000 per day, part of a sharp decline in new infections as vaccination numbers increase, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.

The seven-day average of about 15,600 cases per day is the lowest level of new recorded cases in the U.S. since March 2020 - though comparisons to the first month of the pandemic can be tricky given that testing still lagged at that time.

"Our seven-day average is about 15,600 cases per day," Walensky said during a White House press briefing. "This represents a decrease of more than 30 percent from our prior seven-day average and more importantly it is a 94 percent decrease from the peak of COVID-19 cases we reported in January of this year."

"This is the type of news I like to deliver, and certainly these data are encouraging and uplifting as we battle this pandemic," she added.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-re ... li=BBnb7Kz

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Multi-strain vaccine blocks COVID-19 in monkeys

3rd June 2021

A pan-coronavirus mRNA nanoparticle vaccine with activity against all major SARS-CoV-2 variants has been described in the journal Nature, showing 100% effectiveness in macaques.

Read more: https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/202 ... accine.htm

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'China should pay ten trillion dollars to America and the world': Trump claims he saved hundreds of thousands of lives ignoring Fauci and demands answers on 'foolish' funding of Wuhan lab in blistering statement

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... dvice.html

By Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 15:18 EDT, 3 June 2021 | Updated: 15:53 EDT, 3 June 2021

Former President Donald Trump is demanding that China pays ten trillion dollars for its role in the coronavirus pandemic as he added to growing calls for Dr. Anthony Fauci to explain exactly how much he knew about work being done at the Wuhan Institute of virology.

In a statement, Trump derided his scientific adviser by claiming he saved hundreds of thousands of lives by resisting Fauci's guidance on everything from closing borders, developing vaccines and wearing masks.

'Now everyone, even the so-called "enemy,” are beginning to say that President Trump was right about the China Virus coming from the Wuhan Lab,' he said in a second statement sent minutes after the first.

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5,274 new cases in the UK yesterday.

But hey, let's open everything up, nothing to worry about - it's all over.
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Many people with covid-19 have neurological or psychiatric symptoms

4 June 2021

Neurological and psychiatric symptoms such as anosmia and depression are common among people with covid-19 and may be just as likely in people with mild cases, new research suggests.

Evidence from 215 studies of people with covid-19 indicates a wide range of ways in which the condition can affect mental health and the brain.

The studies, from 30 countries, involved a total of 105,638 people with acute symptoms of covid-19 – the initial illness, rather than the longer-term impacts seen in long covid – including data up to July 2020.

“We had expected that neurological and psychiatric symptoms would be more common in severe covid-19 cases, but instead we found that some symptoms appeared to be more common in mild cases,” said Jonathan Rogers at University College London, the lead author of the study.

“It appears that covid-19 affecting mental health and the brain is the norm, rather than the exception.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/22 ... 1622847883

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Great explanation.

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Welcome to our new, dystopian future.



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Eradicating Covid not a reasonable target now, says WHO official

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Eradicating Covid-19 from the world is not currently a “reasonable target”, a World Health Organization Covid-19 official has said.

Dr David Nabarro, a special envoy to the WHO, said people will have to learn to live with the disease, comments which were echoed by Dame Anne Johnson, a professor of infection disease epidemiology at University College London (UCL).

Nabarro told Sky News’ Trevor Phillips on Sunday: “Humanity is going to have to learn how to co-exist with this virus, preventing it from spiking and then surging and causing hotspots of disease, and we’re going to have to be able to do this for the foreseeable future.

“Eradication is not currently a reasonable target for the world.”

He said: “Each time there is a sudden surge, it does stimulate in one’s mind the thought that there might be a new variant appearing. That wouldn’t be surprising.”

He said that will be “the pattern for the future”, adding: “This virus isn’t going away any time soon, there will be variants emerging.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... c930aebd5b