SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Victoria state, which was a coronavirus hotspot until last week, reported two new locally acquired COVID-19 cases on Monday. The new infections follow low single-digit numbers over the weekend and pose little threat to the community as the people were alread...
But the more recent numbers are alarming, particularly on Monday. “Here we go, we’re in the last month of the season and we’ve got a shot to make it through,” Carroll said. “I don’t know after today what’s going to happen, but everybody has to continually be reminded. Stop...
Today, the burden of disease caused by COVID-19 in vaccinated people in the United States is similar to or lower than the average burden of influenza over the last decade, while the risks from COVID-19 to unvaccinated people are significantly higher (Exhibit 2). This comparison should be ...
For the epidemiology data, COVID-19 data in China, USA, Canada, and Australia, are collected at the provincial/state level, while for other countries, data are collected at the country level. In China, the National Health Commission, in collaboration with industry, developed an “intimate cont...
New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, has now reported 628,100 total cases, according to the health ministry. Cases have also spiked in Victoria state, where the health ministry reported 37,169 new cases on Thursday. The Australian national cabinet is set to meet on Thursday to...
The reported death toll rose by 246 to 2,107, according to RKI, the federal government agency and research institute responsible for disease control and prevention. - - - - CANBERRA -- Australia has recorded over 6,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 51 deaths despite continued signs that ...
Dr. Offit explains that it is not the raw event numbers, but the distribution across arms that matter; one could have a significant trial even with few events, “assuming that you have just a handful or fewer people in your vaccine group who were ill.” And again, Offit replies, “I...
She said she has not seen the just-released Senate version of the measure and is still working off the House-passed bill, aspects of which she criticized as “not very beneficial to a state like Alaska that has high revenue loss, low population, and therefore our numbers of unemployed aren...
12. Allegation: Wuhan’s revision of the numbers of confirmed cases and fatalities shows again that China covered up a large number of cases in the early days of COVID-19. Reality Check: The data revision by Wuhan is a common international practice. As a matter of fact, it proves that ...
1) indicates that the lockdown drastically reduces the relative increase in case numbers, as quantified by the growth exponent, decreasing from \(r=0.32\) per day in the beginning of the outbreak to about \(r=0.27\) per day just before the lockdown and down to \(r=0.038\) per day ...