NHS Covid-19 jab letters ‘confusing over 80s’ – BBC News

Dr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.

“You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you’d prefer.

“If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I’m hopeful that if you’re 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,” she said.

Work will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.

The seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.

Source: NHS Covid-19 jab letters ‘confusing over 80s’ – BBC News

Israel’s massive vaccine drive isn’t keeping up with new cases — especially among younger victims

For the first time since the pandemic started, Israel now says more than a quarter of its most serious Covid-19 cases, where hospitalization is required, are in patients under the age of 60.

The Israeli Ministry of Health is placing the blame squarely on a new strain first discovered in the United Kingdom last month.

Dr. Itamar Grotto, the associate director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Health explained: “This is because the new U.K. variant is more infectious, mainly among young people and children.”

Source: Israel’s massive vaccine drive isn’t keeping up with new cases — especially among younger victims

CDC Library: COVID-19 Science Update: 01/08/2021 – problem with faith in vaccines? Covid-19 more dangerous than flu – news

  • From April to December 2020, the percentage of persons who stated they were somewhat or very likely to get vaccinated declined from 74% to 56% in the US (Figure).
    • Significant declines were observed for women and men, all age groups, racial/ethnic groups and educational subgroups.
  • Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were more likely than patients hospitalized with influenza to develop acute respiratory failure or pulmonary embolism, and more likely to require admission to intensive care and invasive mechanical ventilation.

Source: CDC Library: COVID-19 Science Update: 01/08/2021

Wis. teacher says she caught COVID-19 in classroom, leading to husband’s death

Jeanne Hoffman believes she contracted COVID-19 while teaching in-person in the Kenosha Unified School District. Her close friend, Tanya Kitts-Lewinski, says Hoffman used all of her medical leave before returning to the school because her husband was high risk.

Jeanne Hoffman believes she contracted COVID-19 while teaching in-person in the Kenosha Unified School District. She passed it on to her husband, who was at high risk and died.
Jeanne Hoffman believes she contracted COVID-19 while teaching in-person in the Kenosha Unified School District. She passed it on to her husband, who was at high risk and died. (Source: Family photos, WTMJ via CNN)

Within two weeks of her return, Hoffman contracted the virus, which she then passed on to her husband and her mother. Her husband died last Sunday.

Source: Wis. teacher says she caught COVID-19 in classroom, leading to husband’s death

Covid-19: Hancock warns flexing of rules ‘could be fatal’ – BBC News

He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it’s much worse now.

“We’ve seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.”

Data pic showing the UK's latest coronavirus figures

Source: Covid-19: Hancock warns flexing of rules ‘could be fatal’ – BBC News

President Donald Trump to visit Texas to laud border wall (while 3-4 thousand Americans will be dying from Covid-19)

President Donald Trump is expected to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday to highlight his administration’s work on the border wall, the White House said Saturday.

Trump will travel to the town of Alamo in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. He will mark the completion of 400 miles of border wall and his administration’s efforts to reform what the White House described as the nation’s broken immigration system.

While most of the wall went up in areas that had smaller barriers, the government has built hundreds of miles of fencing as high as 30 feet in a short amount of time — most of it this year.

The administration prioritized areas where the wall could be built more quickly, and crews have blasted hills and bulldozed sensitive habitats in national wildlife refuges and on American Indian land to do it.

Source: President Donald Trump to visit Texas to laud border wall