“It looks like America is done with the pandemic,” he said. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy, told the University of Minnesota. “The virus is not done with us.”
The US has reported more than 15,000 cases of the B.1.1.7 Covid-19 strain, sometimes also called the British variant. Beaumont Health’s Royal Oak Hospital in Michigan notes that their patients are getting younger and generally healthier than they were a few months ago.
Fred Romankewiz, 54, who tested positive for Covid on the same day he was scheduled to receive his vaccine, is being treated in hospital and told CNN the virus feels like he did ’10 rounds with Mike Tyson ‘.
Tina Catron, a 44-year-old without underlying health conditions, said: “It feels like you’re suffocating a little bit.” She experienced oxygen levels with a dangerously low 82% – well below the normal range of 95% to 100%.
YOU ASKED. WE ANSWER.
Q. Can I travel after being vaccinated?
A. Millions of Americans took flight this week, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still urges people to avoid unnecessary travel, even if you are fully vaccinated, because the majority of Americans have not yet had their chance not.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TODAY
The US will have enough vaccines for all Americans by next month
More than 40% of adults and more than 75% of seniors in the U.S. received at least one dose of vaccine, and approximately 23% of adults and 55% of seniors were fully vaccinated. A CNN analysis shows that the US vaccinates its people almost five times faster than the global average.
North Korea will apparently not participate in the Olympic Games in Tokyo
North Korea, an already isolated nation, has decided to sever almost all ties with the outside world by 2020 to prevent the influx of cases of coronavirus. The country did not report a major outbreak of Covid-19, and there were no indications that one had occurred, although experts doubt Pyongyang’s claim that the country has not yet seen a single case of the virus.
After false start, the Australian-New Zealand bubble starts this month
Australia has allowed New Zealanders to enter the country without quarantine for several months, and Monday’s announcement will make the arrangement a two-way corridor. Both countries have reported very few cases and deaths over Covid-19 and are trying to eradicate the virus, rather than simply controlling it.
“This is an important step forward in our Covid response and represents an arrangement that I believe I have not seen in any other part of the world. That is, to open international travel safely to another country while we continue to make a strategy of elimination and a commitment to keep the virus out, “Ardern told a news conference.
ON OUR RADAR
- An undercover report showing members of the Paris elite enjoying secret dinners in luxury restaurants that violate Covid-19 rules has sparked outrage in France and led an investigation.
- “I started to feel like myself for the first time in a year.” Jessamyn Smyth is one of the very tall Covid sufferers who says that her symptoms improved after she was vaccinated. Researchers are investigating this.
- A rally for opening a pub in rural Illinois in February is linked to 46 cases of Covid-19 and the closure of the school for 650 children.
- California now has the lowest Covid-19 positivity rate in the US.
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will go to the bar for a pint in the beer garden when England relaxes coronavirus restrictions next month.
- India’s union territory Delhi has introduced a night clock with immediate effect as the cases of coronavirus increase there. Several states are also advocating for vaccinations for younger Indians.
TODAY’S TOP TIPS
With summer around the corner and more people getting Covid-19 vaccines in many countries, you may be wondering if it is not safe to go to the beach. Even for people who have been fully vaccinated, ‘nothing is going to be 100% safe, just as nothing is going to be a 100% risk’, ‘said Dr. Leana Wen, CNN’s medical analyst, said. The good news is that beaches are “much safer than other environments because they are outdoors,” Wen says.
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“I’m actually living today because of a remedy that was developed 30 years ago for a different condition.” – Dr David Fajgenbaum, a researcher working to find already approved medicines to use again as Covid-19 treatments.