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Tracking U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Donations

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Tracking U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Donations Published: Sep 22, 2021 https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/tracking-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-donations/ Facebook   Twitter   LinkedIn   Email   Print There remains a  significant gap in vaccine access  across the world, with only 2% of the population in low-income countries (LICs) receiving at least one vaccine dose, compared to 30% in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), 54% in upper-middle-income countries (UMICs), and nearly two-thirds in high-income countries (HICs). One way to address this gap is for countries that have vaccines to donate them to countries in need, either via the multilateral COVAX mechanism or directly to countries and/or regions via bilateral donations. For its part, the U.S. government has pledged to donate at least 1.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine for global use by 2022 and has been delivering doses to countries around the world since June. 1  To understand more abo...

Spacing Between COVID Vaccine Doses

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https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/marty-makary/94315 Take Another Look at the Spacing Between COVID Vaccine Doses — Growing body of research suggests robust immune response with extended dosing interval by Martin Makary MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief, MedPage Today September 1, 2021 share to facebook share to twitter share to linkedin email article When most Americans showed up to get their first dose of an mRNA vaccine, they were sternly warned that they must schedule a second dose within a month. In my case, I politely explained that I would come back for my second dose at 3 months. T...

Workplace Outbreaks Caused the Deaths in Malaysia

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Read the data below. It should be obvious that workplace clusters contributed directly to most cases, but what is not told is that all other clusters can be traced back to these workplace clusters. Workplace cases: 133,247 Deaths: 370 Community, i.e. non workplace: 58,776 Deaths: 417 Workplace clusters have more than double the cases of community but led to only 370 deaths compared to 417. These community clusters will not occur if not for the workplace clusters, if you are really honest to know to find out. For example, in a case of my acquaintance. In a house of 13 people, the Covid19 case was only detected when a grandfather died. He does not move a lot and so are members in the house, except for a grandson who works for a courier service company, JNT. I have not investigated whether the clusters are recorded. Either community or workplace. Most probably it woll be recorded as community because the confirmed case is in a community. I do not think there is any further investigation a...

Malaysia Hides Covid Cases in Vaccination Centres

KKM hide cases in PPV. There are 2 more cases at PPV in Sabah, but not reported by KKM. Only investigate. We must sue KKM for being reckless. One in Telupid was reported in the news but KKM did not even investigate. Another case in Kota Kinabalu, was posted in facebook, even with test result, but KKM only investigate but so far no news. KKM only denied asking people to get tested, which I suspect was issued by one of KKM staff unofficially. If it can happen to 2 cases in Sabah, imagine the situations in Selangor. I suspect many of them catch Covid at the PPV, but no record of any cluster, just as KKM hid the clusters at factories to the point that Azmin presented the fake data to Parliament. As is normal in Malaysia, authorities never learned that hiding one or two cases means that the cases are widespread and to be safe, we must assume that it happens to all places. All PPV in Malaysia are infected with the Delta variant. Notice that the Delta variant only needs 15 seconds of exposure...

Malaysian Government is Killing Vulnerable Citizens

(It is unclear if Siti Sarah had yet to receive an appointment date for her vaccination but Mr Shahmira said he had already received his first dose.) Malaysian government killed her. Vulnerable people must be vaccinated first, not young people, or even foreign workers. The opposite happens, because the government is more concerned about the economy than the lives of its citizen and it is all senseless and cruel. Young healthy people do not die from Covid, so why on earth should they be vaccinated first? As long as there are old and vulnerable, all spare vaccines and new appointments must be given to the vulnerable. This is certainly not happening ALL THE TIME. I experience it myself. My mother experience it. My mother in law experiences. My pregnant sister in law was not even called for appointment s and I am sure she has requested for it. We even requested from help desk, many times already. So, this is the standard procedures now. Vulnerable people are not given any appointment, not...

Different Occurrence of Symptoms for Delta Variant

(If you’ve not yet been vaccinated, then the symptoms are more recognisable to the traditional original ranking, however we can still observe some changes from when COVID-19 first appeared over a year ago. Headache Sore Throat Runny Nose Fever Persistent cough) This is the order of occurrence. It means that fever is very rare. Not even coughing is common. If you are vaccinated, fever is not even in this top 5 list of common symptoms. Malaysia, and even UK are still using outdated symptoms, not applicable to the Delta variant. https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/new-top-5-covid-symptoms https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/new-top-5-covid-symptoms

Calculating Herd-immunity and Controlling R0 Infectivity

"The numbers look stark on paper. Indonesia’s modeling assumes delta’s reproduction rate is 6.5, meaning every 10 infected people would spread it to 65 others. To reach herd immunity, the country would need to immunise 154% of its population if using Sinovac’s shots, or 128% if using Pfizer’s - an impossibility." Ini betul, cuma aku tidak tahu eficienci vaksin yang di guna. Kalau vaksin 100%, dalam 65 orang, kita cuma perlu vaksin 55 orang dari 65, supaya tinggal 10. Ini 85%. Cuma R0 yang aku tidak tahu. Indonesia ada maklumat nya. R0 bergantung kepada budaya hidup. Boleh di kawal dengan mask atau lockdown. Di US, R0 adalah 5. Sebenarnya boleh. Kita vaksin semua orang frontliners, 100%. Jadi vaksin yang di perlukan mampu mencegah 55 dari 65, jadi 85%. Pfizer boleh buat tapi cuma tahan 2 bulan. Moderna lebih tahan. Jadi kita vaksin vulnerable supaya rendah kematian, tapi guna Moderna atau Pfizer dengan booster setiap 1 bulan, untuk pekerja transport, pelancungan,  supermarket,...