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Covid-19 Round-up: Delta, Delta, Delta
Indian 'Delta' variant causes 84% increase in COVID-19 cases in children as hospitals in Texas, Florida and Missouri warn they are at 'breaking point' as the US sees 100,000 daily cases and nearly 500 deaths over a seven-day average  Australian Army hits the streets to enforce the world's strictest lockdown: Soldiers stop people from leaving their homes more than once in Sydney's poor suburbs as part of losing pursuit of 'Zero Covid'
Longer Covid, anyway, which needs to be compared to the rate among Israeli healthcare workers vaccinated against the flu who get breakthrough infections of that. Majority of 39 ’breakthrough’ cases among 1,497 monitored were mild, but research author says persistence of symptoms among minority ’raises concern’.Only 0.5% of all those in the study ended up with Long Covid, if I did the math correctly. To me this suggests that some people’s immune systems simply cannot deal well with the infection, or possibly with infection overall, for reasons not yet understood.
Iceland Experiences Major COVID Spike Despite Having Highly Vaccinated Population Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-08 |
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