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Global COVID-19 infection rate approaching highest of pandemic so far

Fri, 2021-04-16 11:02 — mike kraft
WHO chief says COVID-19 infection rate approaching highest of pandemic so far GENEVA (Reuters) -The number of new COVID-19 cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. "Cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing focused on Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the western Pacific region.
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Australia’s pandemic experience offers a potential model for Indigenous health care --experts say EY

Sun, 2021-04-11 20:22 — mike kraft
Australia made a plan to protect Indigenous elders from covid-19. It worked. The pandemic ravaged first-nation communities in many parts of the world. Australia bucked the trend. Rachel Pannett Washington Post
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AstraZeneca vaccine: Status report on which countries are using and which ones are suspending

Thu, 2021-04-01 10:42 — mike kraft
Factbox: Some countries limit AstraZeneca vaccine use amid concern over rare blood clots Some countries are restricting use of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 while others have resumed inoculations, as investigations into reports of rare, and sometimes severe, blood clots continue. Reuters Staff U.S.
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Fourteen countries and European Commission express concern about WHO Covid-19 origin report

Tue, 2021-03-30 19:44 — mike kraft
U.S., 13 countries concerned WHO COVID-19 origin study was delayed, lacked access -statement The United States and 13 other countries expressed concerns on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) report on the origins of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was delayed and lacked access to complete data, according to a joint statement. Reuters Staff U.S.
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OVERVIEW: COVID-19 International briefs

Fri, 2021-03-19 10:59 — mike kraft
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Britain said on Thursday that there were lumps and bumps in the global vaccine supply chain that were causing slower than expected deliveries and scolded the European Union for threatening to slap a ban on vaccine exports. Reuters Staff U.S.

(Reuters) - Nearly a dozen countries resumed use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shots on Friday as EU and British regulators said its benefits outweighed any risks. Reports of rare instances of blood clotting had temporarily halted inoculations.

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OVERVIEW: Briefs on coronavirus international developments

Tue, 2021-03-16 09:21 — mike kraft
Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Sweden, Portugal, Latvia and Slovenia joined a number of the European Union states in suspending AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots over concerns of possible serious side-effects, while the World Health Organization said there was no proven link and people should not panic. Reuters Staff U.S.

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* Coronavirus infections are rising exponentially in Germany, an expert at the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said.

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More governments are setting up own vaccine production facilities to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers

Fri, 2021-03-12 19:41 — mike kraft
As vaccine nationalism deepens, governments pay to bring production home In the German town of Dessau, one of the sites of the Bauhaus art school, an institute was set up in 1921 to mass-produce vaccines that later helped strengthen the German Democratic Republic. Exactly 100 years later, the site is gearing up to be a one-stop shop to produce... Caroline Copley, Andreas Rinke, Allison Martell U.S.
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U.S., India, Japan and Australia develop vaccine pact to supply Asia, counter China

Fri, 2021-03-12 19:26 — mike kraft
U.S., India, Japan and Australia counter China with billion-dose vaccine pact The United States and three of its closest Indo-Pacific partners committed to supplying up to a billion coronavirus vaccine doses across Asia by the end of 2022 at a summit on Friday carefully choreographed to counter China's growing influence. David Brunnstrom, Michael Martina, Jeff Mason U.S.
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COVID DISCUSSION TODAY: 3 PM EST Dr. Fauci and Dr. Kelly

Tue, 2021-03-09 09:35 — mike kraft

The CSIS Global Health Policy Center invites you to join us for an online event:

 

A Conversation With
Dr. Anthony Fauci & Dr. Paul Kelly

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST
 

 

 
A conversation with

 

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Chief Medical Advisor to the President
Executive Office of the President of the United States
 

Dr. Paul Kelly

Chief Medical Officer
Australian Government Department of Health

 

Moderated by

Katherine E. Bliss

Senior Fellow
CSIS Global Health Policy Center

 

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Italy blocks AstraZeneca vaccine shipoment to Australia, using new regulations

Thu, 2021-03-04 12:35 — mike kraft
Covid: Italy 'blocks' AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia The bar on shipping 250,000 doses amid a row with the firm is backed by the EU. BBC News

The Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia.

The decision affects 250,000 doses of the vaccine produced at an AstraZeneca facility in Italy.

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