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Monday 9 August 2021

US sees 100,000 new cases daily as country faces Delta variant threat while China defeated Delta variant !

 


 Surge in Covid-19 infections and deaths as country faces Delta variant threat


Washington: The US is now averaging 100,000 new Covid-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the Delta variant has spread through the country.

The US was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June. Now the number is 107,143.

It took the US about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January.

Cases bottomed out in June but took about six weeks to go back above 100,000, despite a vaccine that has been given to more than 70% of the adult population.

The seven-day average for daily new deaths also increased, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

It rose over the past two weeks from about 270 deaths per day to nearly 500 a day as of Friday.

The virus is spreading quickly through unvaccinated populations, especially in the South where hospitals have been overrun with patients.

Health officials are fearful that cases will continue to soar if more Americans don’t embrace the vaccine.

“Our models show that if we don’t (vaccinate people), we could be up to several hundred thousand cases a day, similar to our surge in early January,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky said on CNN this week.

The number of Americans hospitalised with the virus has also skyrocketed and it has gotten so bad that many hospitals are scrambling to find beds for patients in far-off locations.

Houston officials say the latest wave of Covid-19 cases is pushing the local health care system to nearly “a breaking point”, resulting in some patients having to be transferred out of the city to get medical care, including one who had to be taken to North Dakota.

Dr David Persse, who is health authority for the Houston Health Department and EMS medical director, said some ambulances were waiting hours to offload patients at Houston area hospitals because no beds were available.

Persse said he feared this would lead to prolonged respond times to 911 medical calls.

“The health care system right now is nearly at a breaking point ... For the next three weeks or so, I see no relief on what’s happening in emergency departments,” Persse said Thursday.

Last weekend, a patient in Houston had to be transferred to North Dakota to get medical care.

An 11-month-old girl with Covid19 and who was having seizures had to be transported on Thursday from Houston to a hospital 274km away in Temple, Texas.

In Missouri, 30 ambulances and more than 60 medical personnel will be stationed across the state to help transport Covid-19 patients to other regions if nearby hospitals are too full to admit them, Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced on Friday.- AP
 
 

US averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day

 

China defeated Delta variant ! China's Success Cannot Be Copied and Pasted


Suppose western countries can recognize Chinese and Indian vaccines and provide enough raw materials to India. In that case, it will be more beneficial to the world than the G7 countries' lip service of delivering 1 billion doses of vaccines to impoverished nations by the end of 2022. 
 
It is noteworthy that the promised donations dropped from 1 billion to 870 million when officially announced in the communique as if lip service also costs something 
 
 

The World's First Inhaled COVID-19 Vaccine Is Coming!

 
  The aerosol inhalation vaccine has similar protective efficacy as the intramuscular vaccine. It has fewer side effects in adults over 18 years of age than the injectable ones. It requires aerosol inhalation only to complete vaccination and obtain triple protection of mucosal immunity, 
 
cellular immunity and humoral immunity. If used as a booster, it can significantly improve the already vaccinated population's multiple immunization effect against the new coronavirus mutation. At the same time, the dose of this vaccine is relatively low, which indirectly increases the yield of the vaccine significantly and can effectively solve the problems of medical waste disposal. As a result, it is more suitable for large-scale vaccination.
 
 
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Friday 16 July 2021

Support Call for Royal Commission on Healthcare !

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Time for New Ways

 
Tan Sri Ismail Merican was the former Director General of Health and President of the Malaysian Medical Council. He was among those who managed the SARS outbreak in 2002. Finally breaking his silence, he shares with us his thoughts on how the pandemic is being handled and real solutions to solve our current crisis.
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are purely personal and do not reflect the views of any organisation.
In partnership with ANN.
 
 
 
https://youtu.be/v_qF5i5Tesc

LETTER  More than a year and a half after the first case of Covid-19 in Malaysia and with endless rounds of movement control order (MCO) of various forms plus multiple knee-jerk fire-fighting measures, it is clear that the Health Ministry is still struggling for a comprehensive solution.

The rakyat has faithfully delivered what was asked of them.

They have taken in stride, the toll, the pain and suffering of the hardship of the pandemic and its purported solution. Yet, we are constantly dismayed and disgusted to read and hear about how our politicians and leaders have failed to deliver their share of what is needed - stable leadership.

Instead, they seemed more engaged in their own political survival and happily dancing in and out of the country. They and their supporters display utter disregard for the rules and regulations which they themselves have set.

The national immunisation programme seems to be set with countless muddles, hurdles and supply issues and has not given the rakyat the assurance that the vaccine is indeed the silver bullet to end this misery.

The current industrial action (CodeBlack) by the junior doctors asking for a resolution to their contract problems with the MOH, signals the breaking of a healthcare system that was once proudly touted to be one of the best in the world.

It is clear that we have not learnt and have not taken action from all the many mistakes made in the past and present.

Instead, problems were swept aside and left unaddressed year after year from the overproduction of doctors to the long-standing issue of healthcare inequity.

We have become an example of how things could have been done in a better way.

Thus when put to the Covid-test, it cannot be denied that our healthcare system has failed, putting us now in the league of the worst-performing nations.

It is time again to support the call for a Royal Commission on Healthcare in Malaysia that was proposed in 2017 at the Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Oration of the Academy of Medicine.

The oration has put on record the facts and figures (ironically sourced from MOH studies itself) to justify why only a royal commission was the way forward to seek holistic solutions for the future of Malaysian healthcare.

The advice seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.

Healthcare is a basic right of the rakyat. Having an equitable, effective and compassionate system is what is expected.

It must be the duty of the government to deliver this at all times especially so in a time of national calamity.

DR STEVEN KW CHOW

President

Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Associations Malaysia

The writer is president of the Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Associations Malaysia.

The views expressed here are those of the author/contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of Malaysiakini.

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