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Netherlands: Five scenarios for the future of the pandemic

The Netherlands has published a new guide to the future of the pandemic, laying out five possible scenarios for its evolution, including a worst-case scenario.… ...More...

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Deaths, Europe, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, Lockdown, Netherlands, Quarantine, Research, Testing, Transmission, Vaccine, Variants

Australia: 12% of the workforce off sick with long Covid

An estimated 31,000 Australian workers are calling in sick every day because of the debilitating symptoms of long COVID.… ...More...

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Australasia, Australia, BA.2, BA.5, Coronavirus, Deaths, Health, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, Lockdown, Long Covid, Omicron, Transmission

BMJ: Stop gaslighting the public over Covid-19

“The government must stop gaslighting the public and be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses to them and the NHS”.… ...More...

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Elderly, England, Health, Healthcare, Herd Immunity, Hospitalization, Infection, Lockdown, London, Long Covid, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Testing, Transmission, UK, Wales

China: Seven day Covid lockdown in Xi’an

The Chinese city of Xi’an has gone into a seven-day lockdown amid spiralling Covid-19 cases centred on a large trading market.… ...More...

July 5, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, China, Coronavirus, Health, Infection, Lockdown, Omicron, Testing, Transmission

Preprint: Introverts have been training for a pandemic their whole lives

Introverts have a mortality advantage in an airborne pandemic.… ...More...

May 28, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Deaths, Health, Healthcare, Herd Immunity, Infection, Lockdown, Quarantine, Transmission

Sue Gray report: Rampant alcohol abuse at the heart of the British government

The Sue Gray report into breaches of the lockdown regulations by Boris Johnson and members of his government has finally been published.… ...More...

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, England, Health, Lockdown, London, Superspreader events, Transmission, UK

China: Beijing moves 1,800 residents into quarantine amid COVID-19 outbreak

Over 1,800 residents from Beijing’s Haidian district have been transferred to Zhangjiakou, one of the host cities of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, for centralized quarantine as the Chinese capital fights an arduous battle against the latest Omicron outbreak that has lasted for a month with over 1,500 infections reported.… ...More...

May 23, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, China, Coronavirus, Health, Infection, Lockdown, Omicron, Transmission

North Korea: Latest update on Covid situation

“About 1,349,000 people have entered the sanitation propaganda, inspection, and treatment business, and all people with fever and abnormal symptoms are found and thoroughly isolated and treated.”… ...More...

May 15, 2022May 16, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Deaths, Health, Hospitalization, Infection, Lockdown, North Korea, Symptoms, Transmission

North Korea: 350,000 Covid cases in two weeks 1 update

North Korea reported the first death from COVID-19 today and said more than 350,000 people got fever* since late April as COVID-19 “explosively spread nationwide.”… ...More...

May 13, 2022May 14, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, BA.2, Coronavirus, Deaths, Health, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, Lockdown, North Korea, Omicron, Symptoms, Transmission

North Korea: Total lockdown announced as Omicron BA.2 identified in Pyongyang

North Korea has announced its first ever Covid-19 cases.… ...More...

May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, Infection, Lockdown, North Korea, Omicron, Symptoms, Transmission

WHO: China’s zero-Covid strategy is unsustainable 1 update

China’s flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, adding that it had told Beijing so and called for a policy shift.… ...More...

May 10, 2022May 11, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Children, China, Deaths, Delta, Elderly, Health, Healthcare, Herd Immunity, Hospitalization, Infection, Lockdown, Omicron, Reinfection, Transmission

Shielding “would not have been a viable public health strategy for COVID-19”

Shielding the vulnerable while allowing infections to spread among the wider population would not have been a viable public health strategy for COVID-19 and is unlikely to be effective for future pandemics.… ...More...