High demand for Covid travel certificates – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

  • 2.5 million Covid certificates have been issued in Sweden since July 2021.
  • The Swedish eHealth Agency are urging people not to apply for a certificate unless they’re planning on travelling abroad.
  • Soon people who’ve recovered from Covid-19 will also be able to apply for a Covid certificate.

Source: High demand for Covid travel certificates – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

Covid-19: How effective are vaccines against the delta variant? | The BMJ

The delta variant is now the dominant form of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK and many other countries. Chris Baraniuk asks how effective the leading vaccines are against this new threat “Two days after my first symptoms, I began to feel seriously ill,” wrote BBC TV presenter Andrew Marr.1 He described how he had previously felt invulnerable having received both of his covid vaccine doses. Nonetheless, he became infected with the virus, which he suspects he caught at the G7 summit in Cornwall. Marr recovered but some have not. Data from Public Health England (PHE) reveal that of all the people who died within 28 days of testing positive for the delta variant between 1 February and 19 July, 49% (224) had had two vaccine doses. Almost all of these people, 220, were aged 50 or older.2 As the statistician David Spiegelhalter notes, in a population where less-than-perfect vaccines have been distributed widely, one would expect to see deaths occurring among vaccinated people as the virus spreads. And so far, in contrast to the winter when far fewer people had received vaccines, the rate of hospital admissions and deaths in the UK is not rising as sharply as cases. Although uncertainty remains,

Source: Covid-19: How effective are vaccines against the delta variant? | The BMJ

IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean

Some of the climate changes will be irreversible for millennia. But some can be slowed and even stopped if countries quickly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, including from burning fossil fuels.

Source: IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean

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I was rather in the mood for some Mamas and Papas music tonight, and I found two that I like and haven’t yet played! No, you don’t get both … I’m saving one for later.

This song, written by Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass, was first recorded by the “5” Royales in 1957 (#81 in the U.S.), then by The Shirelles in 1959, that reached only #83 on the U.S. charts. And then came the Mamas & the Papas version in 1967 that soared to in both the UK and the U.S. Lowman Pauling was the guitarist for the “5” Royales and Ralph Bass was their producer.

This was the first time that Michelle Phillips was given the lead over Cass Elliot.

I was curious, so I checked out both the “5” Royales and The Shirelles versions. I found that I rather liked the “5” Royales version, although the…

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