Mr. Trump comes out for vaccination

Mr. Trump

Encouraged his supporters to get vaccinated

Vaccine is safe and something that works

It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works

I would, I would recommend it to a lot of people who don’t want to get it

US, 30 million doses of AZ ready to go

China

Launching a digital health passport

Intended to allow easy travel across borders

British Airways

Passengers to register on a smartphone app

Germany

Cases, + 13,435 = 2,594,764

Deaths, + 249 = 73,905

Christian Drosten, virologist

B117, increasingly prevalent in Germany, (75%)

Driving infections, drastically more difficult

April back to December levels

More transmissible but also more dangerous

Paul-Ehrlich-Institute for vaccines and biomedicines

Sinus vein thrombosis in connection with thrombocytopenia and bleeding

Seven affected individuals, three deaths

Affected individuals had ages ranging from about 20 to 50 years

Six of the affected persons had a particular form of cerebral venous thrombosis, called sinus vein thrombosis.

All six individuals were younger to middle-aged women

All cases occurred between 4 and 16 days after vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca.

Statistically significantly higher than the number of cerebral venous thromboses that normally occur in the unvaccinated population

Observed-versus-expected analysis was performed

14-day time window

1.6 million AstraZeneca vaccinations in Germany

About one case would have been expected, and seven cases had been reported

A connection between the reported above-mentioned diseases and the vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca was not implausible

Australia and PNG

Surge in cases in Papua New Guinea (8.7 million)

Ask AstraZeneca and the European Union to release one million COVID-19 vaccine doses

Prime Minister Scott Morrison

We've contracted them.

We've paid for them.

And we want to see those vaccines come here so we can support our nearest neighbour, PNG, to deal with their urgent needs in our region

They're our family, they're our friends. They're our neighbours. They're our partners ...

Virus needed to be controlled in order to stop a new variant from developing

Positivity rate, batch of 500 tests, 50%

Italy

Recently blocked 250,000 vaccines being delivered to Australia

UK vaccinations

BJ (56) to get the AZ soon

The Vaccine Taskforce

Department for Business

Not Department of Health

Secure access to promising vaccine/s for the UK population

Make provision for international distribution of vaccines

Support industrial strategy by establishing a long-term vaccine strategy plan to prepare the UK for future pandemics

Sir Patrick Vallance

Kate Bingham (VTF Chair), appointed May 2020, unpaid

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Strategy, diverse portfolio

Adenoviral vectors, mRNA, adjuvanted proteins, and whole inactivated viral vaccines

Werneth High, in Romiley, Stockport 90 pupils sent home, asymptomatics, picked up with lateral flow tests