“It looks like America is over with the pandemic,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “The virus is not done to us.”
The United States has reported more than 15,000 cases of strain B.1.1.7 Covid-19, sometimes called a variant of the United Kingdom. Royal Oak Hospital in Beaumont Health, Michigan, notes that its patients are getting younger and generally healthier than they were a few months ago.
Fred Romankewiz, 54, who tested positive on Covid the same day he planned the vaccine, is being treated at the hospital and told CNN the virus felt like “doing 10 rounds with Mike Tyson.”
Tina Catron, 44, with no underlying health condition, said, “You feel like you’re drowning a little.” He experienced dangerously low oxygen levels at 82%, well below the normal range of 95% to 100%.
YOU ASKED. WE ANSWERED.
Q. Can I travel after getting vaccinated?
A. Millions of Americans flew this week, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to urge people to avoid non-essential travel, even if you have been completely vaccinated, because most Americans they have not yet received the shot. .
WHAT’S IMPORTANT TODAY
The United States will have enough vaccines for all Americans by the end of next month
More than 40% of adults and more than 75% of seniors in the United States have received at least one dose of vaccine and approximately 23% of adults and 55% of seniors are fully inoculated. A CNN analysis shows that the US vaccinates its people almost five times faster than the world average.
According to reports, North Korea will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics
North Korea, an already isolated nation, decided to break almost all ties with the outside world by 2020 to prevent an influx of coronavirus cases. The country has not reported a major outbreak of Covid-19 and there have been no indications that it had occurred, although experts doubt Pyongyang’s claim that the country has not seen any cases of the virus.
After false starts, this month the Australia-New Zealand bubble begins
Australia has allowed New Zealanders to enter the country without quarantine for several months, and Monday’s announcement will make the deal a two-way corridor. Both countries have reported very few cases and deaths of Covid-19 and have tried to eliminate the virus instead of simply controlling it.
“This is an important step forward in our response to Covid and represents an agreement that I do not think we have seen anywhere else in the world. That is, to safely open international travel to another country following a strategy of elimination and a commitment to prevent the virus, “Ardern said at a news conference.
ON OUR RADAR
- A covert report showing members of the Parisian elite enjoying secret dinners at luxury restaurants in violation of Covid-19 rules has sparked outrage in France and sparked an investigation.
- “I started to feel like myself for the first time in a year” – Jessamyn Smyth is one of Covid’s longtime patients who says her symptoms improved after receiving a vaccine. Researchers are studying there.
- A bar opening event in rural Illinois in February has been linked to 46 cases of Covid-19 and a school closure that affected 650 children.
- California now has the lowest Covid-19 positivity rate in the US.
- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would go to the pub for a pint in the beer garden when England relaxes coronavirus restrictions next Monday.
- Delhi’s union territory in India has imposed a nocturnal curfew with immediate effect as coronavirus cases occur. Several states are also demanding vaccines for younger Indians.
TODAY’S TOP TIPS
With summer just around the corner and with more people getting vaccinated against Covid-19 in many countries, you may be wondering if going to the beach is a safe bet. Even for people who have been completely vaccinated, “nothing will be 100% safe, just as nothing will have a 100% risk,” said Dr. Leana Wen, a CNN medical analyst. The good news is that beaches “are much safer than other environments because they are outdoors,” Wen says.
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“I’m currently alive because of a drug that was developed 30 years ago for another condition.” – Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a researcher working to find drugs already approved for reuse as Covid-19 treatments.