Convergent evolution not coevolution ONS, 9th February release
Early signs of vaccination immunity
Percentage of people testing positive in the UK
Decreased but remains high
Week ending 30th January
England
One in 65 people tested positive
Equating to 846,900 people
1.55% of the population.
Week ending 23 January, 1,018,700 people (1.87%) tested positive
Wales
One in 70 (1.40%)
Northern Ireland
One in 65 (1.56%)
Scotland
One in 115 (0.88%)
Deaths, week ending 29th January
Deaths, (England and Wales) + 8,433
Second highest weekly figure of the pandemic (behind week ending 17 April 2020)
Percentage of all deaths, 45.7% (all time high)
Total deaths (certificate) = 111,851
Nearly 75% of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred among people aged 75 years and over.
Symptoms, 1 October 2020 and 30 January 2021
Cough, fatigue and headache the most common symptoms in people testing positive
England, of people who tested positive, 47% reported having any symptoms
(Wales, 55% NI, 38% Scotland, 47%)
Analysis, cycle threshold (Ct), less than 30
UK data
Tracker app data
United Ststes
US B.1.1.7 dashboard
CDC data
Past 7 days
New daily reported cases, down 23.5%
New daily reported deaths, down 15%%
CoViD related hospitalizations, down 14.1% (79,179, 16,129, 5,216)
Test positivity rate, 6.6%
Vaccine doses since 14th December, 44,076,000
Two doses, 10,185,000 (3.12%)
Hungary and Serbia
Global vaccine tracker
UK vaccine tracker
US vaccine tracker
Europe vaccine tracker
World Health Organization
Tuesday, news conference led by Chinese health officials
Coordinated by Chinese officials
Mission to Wuhan, inconclusive
Chinese-WHO team
Coronavirus, most likely jumped from bats to an intermediary species
Virus could have been spreading around the world before it erupted in Wuhan in December 2019
WHO team reiterated that it is possible the virus was carried by frozen food
Emphatically ruled out a lab mishap, after talking to Wuhan lab
China's Global Times
Finally put an American conspiracy theory to rest
WHO visit showcased China's positive, scientific, cooperative attitude
Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control
Other locations in the world, particularly U.S. labs, must be investigated next
historically the United States … launched biological and chemical warfare
A WHO is now expected to move on to Southeast Asia, to explain origins
Peter Daszak, WHO delegation member
EcoHealth Alliance, coordinated U.S. grant funding to the WIV
Richard Ebright, microbiologist (Rutgers University)
Apparent conflict of interest
moved quickly to make available all its databases of genetic sequences and strains
provided lab notes,
records and private interviews with research,
waste removal and janitorial staff
None of that happened or was even requested
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