COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Friday 27th of August:
- World: 214,995,764 confirmed cases and 4,479,629 confirmed deaths.
- UK: Research by Oxford University looking at medical records of 29 million people who had received one vaccine injection and 1.8 million people who naturally caught COVID-19 studied adverse reactions within 28 days of injection/infection and reveals being infected with COVID-19 produces the same side effects but many, many times worse:"It found that for every 10 million people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine:
- an extra 107 would be hospitalised or die from thrombocytopenia, which can cause internal bleeding and haemorrhages, but that was nearly nine times lower than the risk of the same condition following an infection
- an extra 66 would be hospitalised or die from blood clots in the veins, but that was nearly 200 times lower than the risk following an infection
For every 10 million people vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, it found:
- 143 extra strokes would be seen, but that was nearly 12 times lower than the risk following an infection"
- UK: Scotland, and new daily cases rocket more than 1,800 in a day to 6,835 which is a record high.
- UK: Government sources reveal the incumbent administration has chosen 1,000 average deaths a week to be the red line on imposing further restrictions with up to 50k a year being tolerable based on a cost-to-benefit analysis which one presumes didn't include any humanitarian considerations. The Government denied this, saying it had not set an "acceptable level".
- US: Supreme Court moves to block government efforts to extend eviction ban put in place during the pandemic.
- US: Florida Judge overrules State Governor who had banned mask mandates in schools, saying he had overstepped his authority by issuing an executive order banning the mandates.
- China: Study indicates 50% of people naturally infected with COVID-19 still experienced some symptoms after 6 months.
- Israel: Early data (which has not yet been peer reviewed) suggests scope of Delta variant Pfizer vaccine avoidance, saying people were almost six times more likely to contract Delta and seven-fold more likely to have symptomatic disease than those who had previously recovered from natural infection.
- Spain: Production Partner for the Moderna vaccine investigated and ruled okay to continue after preliminary checks, following Japans suspension of the vaccine after discovering foreign matter contamination.
- New Zealand: Extends lockdown as 70 additional infections discovered.
- Denmark: To lift all COVID restrictions by September 10th saying the virus was under control and "no longer a threat to society".
- France: Librarians in several areas strike over Health Pass restrictions.