What you need to know about coronavirus on Thursday, December 24

What you need to know about coronavirus on Thursday, December 24

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A count, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, shows that about 9.5 million doses were distributed on Wednesday morning and just over one million people were vaccinated – not even close to the Warp Speed ​​goal originally established.
But vaccines may arrive too late for some, as the virus continues to spread throughout the United States. On Wednesday, California became the first state to exceed two million confirmed cases – more than most countries. And a forecast published on Wednesday by the CDC now projects that there will be 378,000 to 419,000 deaths from coronavirus in the United States by January 16.

Health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said vaccines will help put the pandemic behind – but most Americans, who will not be vaccinated until next year, they need to be on the lookout for masks and social distance measures in the coming months – especially during holidays.

We leave tomorrow for Christmas, but we will return with the briefing on Monday, December 28th. Happy holidays to everyone and congratulations to Dr. Fauci, who is 80 years old today.

YOU ASKED. WE ANSWER.

Q: Can people try to cut the line to be vaccinated?

AN: Medical concierge services in California have reported wealthy residents looking to pay thousands to skip the vaccine line. Governor Gavin Newsom has pledged to monitor the situation and ensure that ethical standards are maintained so that “those with influence do not exclude those who most deserve vaccines”.

It is an issue that each state will have to deal with individually, but in the grand scheme of a vaccination campaign across the country, it is not the most worrying concern.

On the one hand, it is an indicator of high demand, which means greater acceptance of the vaccine. On the other hand, those who administer the vaccine have enough to worry about, without being overwhelmed by checking everyone’s identification, occupation or medical history.

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WHAT’S IMPORTANT TODAY

Very allergic populations may participate in new Covid vaccine trials

The frequency of allergic reactions to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is higher than would be expected for other vaccines, said Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific adviser to Operation Warp Speed, on Wednesday.

Slaoui said the last time he was updated on allergic reactions was on Tuesday, when there were six cases, but that data on immunizations against the coronavirus are lagging behind the actual figures. Discussions are ongoing between vaccine manufacturers and the National Institutes of Health to consider conducting clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines in very allergic populations, such as those who need to carry an EpiPen all the time, he added.

Genetics experts fear that coronavirus vaccines may not work as well against the UK variant

Michael Worobey, a biologist at the University of Arizona, saw more than 100,000 different strains of the virus that causes Covid-19. But when he saw the new UK variant, he realized something different: “This is the first variant I saw during the entire pandemic, in which I stepped back and said, ‘Wow’.”

Health officials have minimized the possibility that coronavirus vaccines will not work against the UK strain, but Worobey and other scientists think it is a possibility – and only a possibility – that this new variant may, to a small extent, outperform vaccines . Pfizer and Moderna are testing the vaccine to see if it works against the new variant.

She’s one of the millions of girls who don’t go back to the classroom

Unable to continue her studies remotely due to the lack of electricity in her home in Mombasa, and with her mother’s income from selling vegetables on the cut street, Bella began to exchange sex for money to help supplement the family’s income. Now three months pregnant, the 19-year-old said she would not be able to resume school when Kenya’s schools were fully reopened in January.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates that nearly 24 million children and adolescents, including 11 million girls and young women like Bella, may drop out of education next year due to the economic impact of the pandemic alone. That reality not only threatens to throw back decades of progress made towards gender equality, but it also puts girls around the world at risk of child labor, teenage pregnancy, forced marriage and violence, experts say.

Wombats, snails, ferrets: the animals that cheered us during the pandemic

In 2020, shelters reported so many adoption and adoption requests that some were left without animals for the first time. But it’s not just cats and dogs that are enjoying our attention the most; people adopted less conventional pets, formed ties with wildlife, and developed communities around their local animals.

With many schools and workplaces transferred to the Internet, prolonged blockages and heightened isolation, comfort can come in the form of a kangaroo, wombat, ferret or even a snail. Here are some stories of people who found joy this year in the most unexpected of creatures.
Two of the four wombats who lived with Emily Small in her Melbourne apartment during the blockade.

ON OUR RADAR

  • The United Kingdom has announced a ban on travel to anyone who has been or has been traveling through South Africa in the past 10 days due to an “increased risk of a new coronavirus strain”.
  • A Brazilian researcher said that China’s CoronaVac vaccine is “the safest tested today”, but will not release the trial data.
  • Japan recorded a new record for Covid-19 cases, as experts urge the public to cancel vacation travel.
  • South Korea has signed contracts with pharmaceutical company Janssen Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson to import Covid-19 vaccines.
  • Delta’s CEO presented an employee who fought Covid-19 for months, a first-class trip anywhere in the world.
  • An increasing number of Covid-19 employee packages and fees are causing significant delays at the US Post Office’s processing facilities before Christmas.
  • Actor Kirk Cameron is facing criticism for organizing caroling protests in Southern California over home warrants such as Covid-19 cases in the rise of the state.

TIPS

Do you want to go out with some friends (without a mask) this winter? Make a Covid-19 Bubble

Doctors are asking Americans to lower themselves in their blisters, as Covid-19 cases increase this winter.

Bubbles of social detachment can help you stay safe and healthy when seeing other human beings in person. But they only work if everyone follows the same strict rules.

Here’s what a bubble is, what the basic rules are, how to handle complicated conversations with friends and family, and what happens if someone breaks (or pops) the bubble.

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