International Update, Vaccines and motorcycles

Russia
Cases, 900,745
Deaths, 15,231

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02386-2?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=400aa96402-briefing-dy-20200811&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-400aa96402-44762053

Sputnik moment

Regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine

Less than two months of human testing

Has not yet completed final trials

Sputnik V

Normally about 10 % of clinical trials are successful

Mr. Putin

It is completely safe

I know that it works quite effectively, forms strong immunity, and I repeat, it has passed all the necessary checks

Mass production by the end of the year

Medics and teachers August and September (voluntary)

Mass roll-out in Russia is expected to start in October.

Two doses

Consists of two serotypes of a human adenovirus, each carrying an S-antigen of the new coronavirus

Platform developed over 20 years

Ebola

Brazil

Clinical trials, United Arab Emirates, Philippines

United States

Cases, 5, 141, 879

Deaths, 164, 545

South Dakota, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/11/entertainment/smash-mouth-concert-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-trnd/index.html

250,000 riders from across the country

10 day event

Super-spreader event

Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8sYJEhrlvw

Cherokee county

6 days of school

No mask policy for students

59 confirmed cases

900 quarantined after return to class

Florida

Schools reopening

Masks encouraged

Space as space allows

Under 17s, cases up by 130%

Brazil
Cases, + 52,160 = 3,109,630

Deaths, + 1,274 = 103,026, the health ministry said.


UK

Cases, + 1, 062 (Sunday) + 1,148 (Tuesday) = 312,789

Highest daily total since June 21.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-cases/uk-reports-highest-daily-total-covid-cases-since-june-21-at-1148-idUKKCN2572D7

UK authorities stopped publishing daily updates on the number of deaths from COVID-19 on July 17

ONS

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19roundup/2020-03-26

27 July to 2 August 2020

28,300 people in the community in England had COVID-19 (0.05% of the community population).

Week ending 31 July 2020 (Week 31)

193 deaths in the week involved COVID (2.2% of all deaths in that week)

70% of adults worried

NZ

102 day run

Auckland

4 cases in one family

Family of 7, kids in school, adults at work

Symptomatic for 4 or 5 days

Source unknown

Extensive testing to see how far it has spread

QR codes in use

Phase 3 restrictions

Stay at home

None essential business

Schools partly closed

Masks in public

Some restrictions in the rest of country

South Africa
Cases, 566, 109
Deaths, 10,751

Syria
Cases, 1, 327
Deaths, 53

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