Category: Hospitalization
USA: Covid blizzard in Minnesota – 72,628 vaccine breakthrough cases, 519 deaths
“We are in the middle of a COVID blizzard right now in Minnesota,” state infectious disease director Kris Ehresmann said. More...
Taking antibiotics 2 years before contracting Covid increases the risk of severity
Taking antibiotics in the two years prior to being infected with Covid increases the probability of virus severity by 12%, according to a new Spanish study. More...
Germany: “We do not have a pandemic of the unvaccinated”
Berlin virologist Christian Drosten: “We do not have a pandemic of the unvaccinated, we have a pandemic,” he emphasized. More...
The 2021 winter wave will be the largest Covid wave so far
It looks like the 2021 Covid global winter wave will be a much larger repeat of the 2020 winter wave, with Europe and North America being the biggest contributors of new Covid cases again. More...
South Korea: 50% vaccine breakthrough for new Covid-19 cases
About half of new COVID-19 cases in the South Korea over the past two weeks were breakthrough infections.
UK: Predicting Sars-Cov-2 waves using repeating code snippets
We have been looking at the latest UK Covid chart overnight, and we think we may have spotted a repeating code snippet warning of an imminent new Covid wave for Britain. More...
USA: nearly 59,000 vaccine breakthrough cases, 468 deaths in Massachusetts
Nearly 59,000 fully vaccinated Massachusetts residents have now tested positive for COVID-19 and 468 of them have died. More...
Germany: 44% vaccine breakthrough in over-60’s ICU patients
The intensive care doctor Uwe Janssens told the RND that the number of Covid patients with vaccination breakthroughs in intensive care units would continue to increase. More...
Germany: Covid cases jump 26% in one day, top 50,000 for the first time
The number of new corona infections in Germany has risen sharply – and exceeded 50,000 for the first time in the pandemic. More...
Germany: Bavaria declared a Covid disaster zone
Bavaria has proclaimed a nationwide disaster. Prime Minister Markus Söder declared the disaster due to “the current worrying situation in the corona pandemic. More...