Becuse the data shows lockdowns worked so much better than no lockdowns....not. If these guys were legit they would acknowledge it all depends on the assumptions they select in their models...There is no way they can prove that lockdowns save lives being that Florida Texas and many other areas did reasonably without multiple lockdowns.
Peru has the world's highest COVID-19 death rate — and people are paying 1,000% markups on black-market oxygen tanks https://www.insider.com/peru-oxygen-covid-death-rate-so-expensive-2021-06
India reports more than 6,000 daily Covid deaths — highest ever in the world https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/10/india-covid-crisis-more-than-6000-deaths-recorded-in-24-hours.html India’s health ministry data showed 6,148 deaths were recorded over a 24-hour period, as daily reported cases remained below 100,000 for the third consecutive day. The fatalities rose after one of India’s poorest states, Bihar, revised its total Covid-19 related death toll on Wednesday from about 5,400 to more than 9,400, accounting for people who died at home or in private hospitals, Reuters reported. India’s daily reported death toll from the coronavirus crisis reached a record high on Thursday, with more than 6,000 people succumbing to the disease. That surpassed a record number of daily fatalities reported by the United States this year. India’s health ministry data showed 6,148 Covid-related deaths were recorded over a 24-hour period, as daily reported cases remained below 100,000 for the third consecutive day. The fatalities rose after one of India’s poorest states, Bihar, revised its total Covid-19 related death toll on Wednesday from about 5,400 to more than 9,400, accounting for people who died at home or in private hospitals, Reuters reported. (More at above url)
The Biden watch More people have died from Covid-19 already this year than in all of 2020, according to official counts
So much for the Russian vaccines... Moscow orders new restrictions as Covid-19 infections soar in the city The mayor ordered a week off for some workplaces and imposed restrictions on many businesses to fight coronavirus infections that have more than doubled. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...ctions-covid-19-infections-soar-city-n1270615 Moscow's mayor on Saturday ordered a week off for some workplaces and imposed restrictions on many businesses to fight coronavirus infections that have more than doubled in the past week. The national coronavirus task force reported 6,701 new confirmed cases in Moscow, compared with 2,936 on June 6. Nationally, the daily tally has spiked by nearly half over the past week, to 13,510. After several weeks of lockdown as the pandemic spread in the spring of 2020, the Russian capital eased restrictions and did not reimpose any during subsequent case increases. But because of the recent sharp rise, “it is impossible not to react to such a situation,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. He ordered enterprises that do not normally work on weekends to remain closed for the next week while continuing to pay employees. Food courts and children's play areas in shopping centers also are to close for a week beginning Sunday, and restaurants and bars must limit their service to takeout from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Earlier in the week, city authorities said enforcement of mask- and glove-wearing requirements on mass transit, in stores and in other public places would be strengthened and that violators could face fines of up to 5,000 rubles ($70). Although Russia was the first country to deploy a coronavirus vaccine, its use has been relatively low; many Russians are reluctant to get vaccinated. President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said 18 million Russians have received the vaccine — about 12% of the population. For the entire pandemic period, the task force has reported nearly 5.2 million infections in the country of about 146 million people, and 126,000 deaths. However, a report from Russian state statistics agency Rosstat on Friday found more than 144,000 virus-related deaths last year alone. The statistics agency, unlike the task force, counts fatalities in which coronavirus infection was present or suspected but is not the main cause of death. The agency’s report found about 340,000 more people died in 2020 than in 2019; it did not give details of the causes of the higher year-on-year death toll. The higher death toll and a lower number of births combined to make an overall population decline of 702,000, about twice the decline in 2019, Rosstat said.
The problems in Moscow keep getting worse... it appears they have their own highly infectious variant. Moscow facing new aggressive coronavirus variant, mayor says https://www.reuters.com/world/mosco...bly-due-infectious-variants-mayor-2021-06-17/ Moscow is facing a new coronavirus variant that is more aggressive and infectious, and the situation in the city is rapidly deteriorating, its mayor said on Thursday. The Russian capital reported 7,704 new infections on Sunday, the most in a single day since Dec. 24. Authorities confirmed 14,723 cases nationwide, the largest one-day total since Feb. 13. The daily figures have remained high this week. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday's caseload would be more than 9,000, which would be the most recorded in Moscow since the pandemic began. Until the beginning of June, daily new infections had been mostly below 3,000 for months. "A new mutation has arrived, a new strain is active. It's more aggressive, it's harder to recover from, it spreads faster. It's much more likely to penetrate a person's immune system," Sobyanin said, according to the RIA news agency. He made the remark as he met people who work in the Moscow restaurant business. In separate comments at a government meeting broadcast on television, Sobyanin said the city was rapidly increasing its number of hospital beds to treat a possible influx of COVID-19 patients. There are currently enough beds available, he said. "This dynamic is fairly unexpected given that more than 60% of Muscovites have either already been ill or been vaccinated - it is a large segment of the population... We of course did not expect an increase (in cases), but a decrease," Sobyanin said. The head of the consumer health watchdog, who was also at the meeting, said the number of coronavirus cases attributed to the Delta variant, which was first identified in India, was rising significantly across the country. Sobyanin did not say which variant he had been referring to. He announced no new restrictions to rein in the outbreak, but said they could be coming. "We are very close to stricter decisions - temporary but stricter - in terms of restrictions," Sobyanin said at the meeting with restaurant business representatives. The Kremlin has expressed dismay over the slow progress in Russia's vaccination programme despite Russia making its Sputnik shot widely available to people in Moscow in December. Moscow authorities on Wednesday ordered workers with public facing roles to get vaccinated against COVID-19. read more Sobyanin said the number of people signing up for the shot had tripled on Thursday, and that he expected the case surge to further spur demand: "I think the number will rise every day."
A single country spreads a variant which takes down an entire continent. A silent decimation: South America’s losing battle against Covid Strained and underfunded health systems, economics and misinformation have all led to a surge in deaths https://www.theguardian.com/global-...8/covid-south-america-paraguay-argentina-peru
Indonesia's COVID-19 situation nears 'catastrophe' - Red Cross Oxygen prices leap in Indonesia's capital as COVID-19 cases surge https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...ation-nears-catastrophe-red-cross-2021-06-29/
Despite ally donations, few Venezuelans get COVID-19 vaccine Some Venezuelans have gotten a shot in the arm thanks to a gift of Cuban-developed COVID-19 vaccines, bringing relief to some residents while simultaneously deepening the mystery around the country’s donation-dependent vaccination campaign https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ally-donations-venezuelans-covid-19-vaccine-78642011 CARACAS, Venezuela -- Some Venezuelans got a COVID-19 shot this week thanks to a donation of Cuban-developed vaccines, bringing relief to some residents desperate to protect themselves while simultaneously deepening the mystery around the country’s donation-dependent vaccination campaign. Thirty-thousand shots of the three-dose Abdala vaccine entered Venezuela’s inoculation effort just days after Nicolás Maduro's government and Cuban authorities reached an agreement under which Havana is expected to deliver 12 million doses in the following months. That deal follows vaccine-donation agreements with other allies, but it remains unclear what the terms of the arrangements are, how many people have received a shot and how well priority groups are being respected. “If we look at the promises with the Russian and Chinese vaccines, there’s a lot of emphasis on the agreements and the numbers, and then the delivery of those vaccines and who gets what in Venezuela becomes much more mysterious,” said Jacqueline Mazza, senior adjunct professor of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University. “Simply put, the numbers just aren’t there. When we put it together, we are still in the same position we are with the handling of the coronavirus in Venezuela: It’s all shrouded in mystery, and clearly, the figures that are not giving us the true story.” Venezuela began the first phase of its vaccination campaign in February by focusing on the health, law enforcement and education sectors. It expanded the effort in late May to anyone 60 years of age and older. Since February 13, at least 380,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine have arrived in Venezuela, representing 3.8% of the 10 million initially agreed to in December. Venezuela in March also received a batch of 500,000 doses of the Vero Cell vaccine donated by the Chinese state company Sinopharm. Two months later, Maduro announced the arrival of 1.3 million vaccines from China without giving details. Those shipments plus the one that arrived from Cuba mean the country has received at least 2,210,000 vaccines. It has only administered 1,466,988 of them and only 223,858 people — .8% of the population — are fully vaccinated, according to data gathered by Johns Hopkins University. Maduro has said he is aiming to vaccinate “at least 70% of the population” by September. But health care workers and teachers are still waiting for their shots, and some Venezuelans have expressed reservations about the lack of information on the Abdala vaccine and the campaign. “I have not been vaccinated yet,” said 32-year-old worker Edwin Quintana. “I don’t really know if the Cuban vaccine has gone through the verification processes of the World Health Organization.” Cuban officials last week said the vaccine has an efficiency of 92.28%. It has not been cleared by the WHO. The union representing health care workers and the National Academy of Medicine of Venezuela this week expressed concerns about the vaccine, which the latter group described as “products of doubtful scientific credibility” and hoped that the WHO and the Pan American Health Organization would weigh in. Beyond the doubts over Venezuela’s agreements with allies, it is also unclear if Venezuela will receive vaccines through a United Nations-led effort. Through the COVAX mechanism, Venezuela expected to receive a supply of about 11.4 million doses from a pool of different vaccines. The government was able to make a down payment, but Maduro last month said $10 million that would have covered the amount required by COVAX was blocked because of international sanctions. Mazza expects years to go by before Venezuela can vaccinate its roughly 30 million population. “How does a country with a collapsed distribution system and totally incapable bureaucracy now administer a vaccine? They’re clearly not, in essence, ramping up to deliver on any scale,” she said. Venezuela has recorded more than 274,000 cases and over 3,100 deaths of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins. At a vaccination site Tuesday in the capital of Caracas, Yoleima Cartaya reasoned that a vaccine, regardless of brand, is better than no vaccine. “I think the best thing is to have it,” Cartaya, 37, said after getting her first shot of the Abdala vaccine. “I feel great.”
No lockdown plans in Russia as virus deaths hit new record Russian authorities have reported a record-breaking 679 new coronavirus deaths, a fourth day in a row with the highest daily death toll in the pandemic, yet the Kremlin has insisted that no plans for another lockdown are being discussed https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/lockdown-plans-russia-virus-deaths-hit-record-78628479