COVID: German doctors call for 2-week hard lockdown | News | DW | 27.03.2021

Germany’s intensive care doctors have called for a two-week hard lockdown in order to avoid overwhelming the health care system.

A mix of hard lockdown, vaccinations and testing is necessary to “prevent intensive care units from being overflowed,” the head of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Christian Karagiannidis, told the Rheinische Post newspaper.

His comments come as Germany battles a third wave of coronavirus infections.

Karagiannidis called on ministers to put an immediate stop to any planned openings in light of the rapid rise in cases. “I ask politicians not to abandon hospital staff,” he said.

Source: COVID: German doctors call for 2-week hard lockdown | News | DW | 27.03.2021

In Myanmar, rising bloodshed leaves a soldier’s wife caught between protests and military – The Washington Post

At least 91 people were killed in anti-coup demonstrations that coincided with Armed Forces Day on Saturday including three children, according to the news website Myanmar Now, after a warning from the military on state television that protesters could be “shot in the head,” according to state television.

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The U.S. ambassasor to Myanmar, Thomas Vajda, denounced the latest bloodshed as “horrifying.”

Source: In Myanmar, rising bloodshed leaves a soldier’s wife caught between protests and military – The Washington Post

Avian Flu Diary: Preprint: Sudden Rise In COVID-19 Case Fatality Among Young & Middle Aged Adults – Paraná, Brazil

Patients aged 20-29 years experienced a tripling of their CFR, from 0.04% to 0.13%, while those aged 30-39, 40-49, 50-59 experienced approximate CFR doubling. Individuals between 20 and 29 years of age whose diagnosis was made in February 2021 had an over 3-fold higher risk of death compared to those diagnosed in January 2021 (Risk Ratio (RR): 3.15 [95%CI: 1.52-6.53], p<0.01), while those aged 30-39, 40-49, 50-59 years experienced 93% (1.93 [95%CI:1.31-2.85], p<0.01), 110% (RR: 2.10 [95%CI:1.62-2.72], p<0.01), and 80% (RR: 1.80 [95%CI:1.50-2.16], p<0.01) increases in risk of death, respectively.
Notably, the observed CFR increase coincided with the second consecutive month of declining number of diagnosed SARS-CoV-2 cases. Taken together, these preliminary findings suggest significant increases in CFR in young and middle-aged adults after identification of a novel SARS-CoV-2 strain circulating in Brazil, and this should raise public health alarms, including the need for more aggressive local and regional public health interventions and faster vaccination.

Source: Avian Flu Diary: Preprint: Sudden Rise In COVID-19 Case Fatality Among Young & Middle Aged Adults – Paraná, Brazil

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