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luna-rainbow · 3 years

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the general cop out of TFATWS

Saw this fantastic thread pop up today but since this post would be talking about everything else apart from Bucky, I thought I'd start another post.

TFATWS brings up very complex issues and some very dark themes. Unlike Black Widow which by and large does it well, TFATWS does not give these issues the complexity they deserve. It wants to be a political show, but it shirks away from actually giving those issues the gravity and depth they deserve.

1) Racial injustice

My particular issue with the racial injustice theme is that the MCU does not actually align with the real world. I mean half the world has just come out of non-existence, that messes up the social psyche in major ways - so this is not the same as the post-Floyd US we know in the real world. Especially to people living outside the US, we're going to need a little more than a bank and a police scene to show us exactly how racial injustice pervades the MCU America to the point that Sam/Sarah denounces the country multiple times, particularly as it had never been established as an issue before this series (again, only lightly touched on in Black Panther). It is also a missed opportunity to actually educate people outside of the US why racial injustice in the US is a problem that needs the world community's support. Go hard and go deep. Make it without a doubt that Sam could've gotten a loan if he was white - just need a passing comment that someone else in the same situation easily got a loan. Make it clear that in the MCU world, there are also unjust deaths in custody which preferentially affects BIPOC, and this problem has become bigger because the lack of resources has driven up petty crime. Talk about BIPOC being passed over for opportunities, which are going to be massively limited in the post-Blip world. Talk about how people can't get jobs, can't go to college, can't go to school because the colour of their skin pushes them down the list of priorities. Which brings me to...

2) Post-Blip mess

This is criminally glossed over in the series, with a lot of handwaving lines about "the GRC" and "things were better before the Blip". Again, show/tell us the horrors. There won't be enough food and water. There won't be enough housing or accommodation. Don't show us refugees living in clean European mansions. Show us overcrowded, poorly constructed, unhygienic refugee camps (see below picture from Syria). The world's population doubled overnight with no increase in infrastructure. You're going to have a LOT of displaced people literally on the streets. Crime will soar, deaths and illness will soar, and overall dissent will soar.

3) Resource allocation

Even in a world that hasn't had to deal with half the population disappearing then returning within a short time frame, we are having issues with vaccine inequity. Here's a recent JAMA article about this very issue:

Approximately 1.2% of the global vaccine supply has been received by low-income countries and just 14% by lower-middle-income countries, which account for nearly 40% of the world’s population. In contrast, more than half the US adult population is fully vaccinated (...)

Vaccine inequity is driven by insufficient supply and unfair allocation. Powerful high-income countries prepurchased sufficient doses for their entire populations, sometimes twice the number needed. In contrast, COVAX, a global initiative to procure and equitably allocate vaccines, failed to secure enough doses even for its modest goal of covering 20% of lower-income country populations this year. Pfizer, for example, agreed to sell COVAX only 40 million doses, and had delivered just over 1 million by mid-May.

Now extrapolate this across all resources, including food, fuel, medicines, materials, manufacturing machinery etc. For example, recently parts of northern Chinese cities went dark for days in the middle of a freezing winter because the power grid didn't have enough coal to run. This is going to be made so much worse when the population had suddenly doubled. Greedy corporations will want to capitalise on the sudden surge in demand. Large numbers of people will be dying from all of these reasons, and if the GRC is driving the inequity by unfair allocation of resources, people are within their rights to protest or push for change.

4) Police/Government corruption

It's a fine line that separates a terrorist from a revolutionary, and TFATWS shied away from portraying the gritty reality that would have made Karli a real heroine in this post-apocalyptic world. This is a particularly missed opportunity because Karli's story isn't even set in America, and even as someone who doesn't keep up much with world news I know there are ongoing issues of military/government driven brutality going on throughout the world, which would be many times worse post-Blip because the population will become more expendable.

For anyone interested, here's China's forcing sterilisation/contraception in Uighurs. Here's Myanmar military shooting young people posting Tiktoks of pro-democracy songs. Here's China (again) arresting staff at a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong and driving it into closure.

Get into the dark side. Tell us how the GRC is colluding with corrupt governments. Tell us about the slavery that has shot through the roof because human labour is now so cheap. Tell us how governments are banning their own people from having children because of overcrowding concerns, and how the GRC plays into that propaganda. Tell us how corrupt powers try to censor these issues from getting to the media, and how the GRC's musclemen (like Walker) are unknowingly or intentionally used to silence people who are trying to fight for their right to live.

5) "I believe we can do better"

Maybe because I'm more a doer than a talker, but I'm still trying to recover from the cringe caused by that speech. Again, I don't blame Sam for either this speech or his talk with Bucky in episode 5, I can only lay the blame at the writers who clearly weren't interested in any of the practical ramifications of what they're writing.

Firstly, establish what they were doing wrong (see above, and there's lots more that could be added with just a cursive research into world affairs). Second, "The only power I have is that I believe we can do better" is a terribly avoidant reply when someone is pointing out rightfully that the issues are complex. This is a time when people want solutions, not just nebulous ideas. I mean, who doesn't want things to be "better"?? But you haven't established the why or what and now you're just handwaving about the how.

Point out what they're doing wrong. Talk about equity in resource and opportunity allocation. Tell them how their policies are driving crime and death and corruption in lower income countries. Offer to be on the Council as a representative for the layperson. Sure, committees might not seem very superhero-like, but other heroes have sat in on international meetings with politicians with success - Nat, Tony, T'Challa to name a few.

I know it's easy to use the excuse that "they tried to pack too much so they can't address all this" and I agree to an extent. But by taking the handwaving cop-out route with these heavy issues, it undermined several scenes that should have held more emotional weight.

#tfatws critical #tfatws meta #rants #tfatws #the falcon and the winter soldier

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creaturecompanion07 · 3 years

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Dog License In India

The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation passed a proposal to regulate pet ownership in its municipal area on September 13, 2019. An expert committee has been formed to devise pet registration rules and decide the fine amount for people allowing their dog to poop in public spaces. The committee had first suggested `5000 as fees for the registration of pet dogs, which was later brought down to ₹`1000 after the civic body received several complaints by pet owners requesting a reduction in the steep amount.

The committee will first study pet registration charges and laws in different states of the country before starting with the task of formation of by-laws and other modalities for this planned move. The municipal board will also levy fines on pet owners found with unregistered pets. Moreover, the board has decided to penalise pet owners ₹500 every time their dog is found defecating in open areas. Dinesh Chandra Singh, Municipal Commissioner, said that the residents of Ghaziabad will be informed about the rules soon. dog license online india

Creature Companion asked readers and followers to share their views on the issue of dog licensing and registration on our social media handles. Many pet parents came forward to share their thoughts on this vital topic.

Ketan Panchal, Founder K9 Academy shares, “Pet registration is a good idea. It would give your pet an identity and at the same time the pet parent will get more responsibility. As a dog father and a good civilian, you must keep your house and city clean. You must clean after your dog. I always carry potty bags when I take my dog out. I also train many dogs in Ahmedabad. I request everyone to clean after their pets. Society will accept you and your pet with love if you keep the area clean.”

Bhanu Maheshwari, pet parent to male Labrador Jojo, opines, “Having your dog registered with a kennel is one of the first things that should be done. Also, if you have a dog in a complex where other apartment owners consider you and your dog to be a nuisance, having your dog registered acts as an additional support. Moreover, no one likes to step in pet waste and spread it into homes. Even if there is no restriction, cleaning up after your pet is always the right thing to do. It’s the law!”

The funds from registration fees are used to support many noble causes across the globe such as animal shelters, investigations regarding cruelty to animals and emergency animal rescues during natural disasters. Not only this, pet licensing offers numerous benefits such as increasing vaccinations, reunion with lost pets and helps governments to maintain a registry of the pets in their area. Pet registration also helps to reduce the number of incidents pertaining to the defecation by pets in public areas and dog-bites in cities.

Creature Companion strongly supports the concept of responsible pet ownership and recommends that everyone owning a pet in India get their pets registered with their local civic bodies to ensure their safety and support the development of companion animal facilities across the nation.

PET REGISTRATION REGULATIONS INDIFFERENT INDIAN STATES

Today all major metropolitan cities of the country have some laws regarding lincensing of pets. Let’s take a look.

Delhi/NCR- According to Section 399 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, every dog owner should register his/her pet. The canine registration requirements include annual registration charges of `500 along with the dog’s vaccination proof, its picture and an identity proof stating its address and breed information.

Gurgaon- The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has a provision for pet registration, however it is not mandatory. Pet owners can register their dogs and cats by paying a fixed annual charge of `500 and providing requisite medical and neutering certificates.

Noida- Noida is yet to come up with any laws regarding pet registration.

Lucknow- Pet owners have to shell out yearly charges of `500, `300 and `200 for registration of big (Doberman, Labrador, German Shepherd); small (Shih Tzu, Pomeranian, Spitz) and local indie (Indian Pariah) dog breeds respectively. Failing to get your dog registered will lead to a heavy penalty of `5000.

Mumbai- Under Section 14, rule number 22(a) sub-clause 386 of Maharashtra Municipal Provincial Act, every pet owner must obtain a dog license for his/her pet canine. The pet parent needs to submit a valid address proof; a passport size picture of the dog; latest vaccination card with owner’s full name, address, contact number, and name of the vet along with the issuing clinic; and fees of `75 for new registration and `50 as renewal charges.

Bengaluru- Bruhat Bengaluru MahanagaraPalike (BBMP) had issued pet licensing by-laws in 2018, according to which pet dogs had been capped at one per apartment and three per independent house in the metropolitan city. The municipal body had further issued a list of 64 approved breeds for apartments. To get their pets registered, pet owners needed to provide BBMP with updated vaccination records of their pets along with the pet’s details like name, age, breed; and their name and contact details. The license fee was `110 for the initial year. However, the bylaws were withdrawn by the municipal authority after several complaints were received from residents regarding their unsuitability.

Guwahati- Registration of pet dogs over three months of age is mandatory under the GMC Act, failing which erring pet parents are punishable under law. The responsibility for registration falls on the NGO/society, which is allowed to collect `100 as registration fees and `10 as application fees per dog from owners. The NGO/society is then to collect the Metal Tag from GMC Veterinary branch after payment of `60 per dog and get the signed registration certificate from the GMC Veterinary Officer after submitting photograph of pet owner with dog along with duly filled in form A and B of Levy of Tax on Dogs kept within the city of Guwahati Byelaws, 1975.

Pune- Pune Municipal Corporation accepts advanced registration charges of INR 500 for a period of ten years (`50 per year). Owners need to submit three passport size photographs of the pet along with its anti-rabies certificate and owner’s address proof. However, the pet needs to be re-registered at the municipal body’s ward office each year.

Indore – According to registration procedures laid down by the Indore Municipal Corporation, pet owners just need to visit the nearest government veterinary clinic along with their pet and its latest vaccination records and submit a nominal annual amount of `100 to procure a pet license.

Chennai– The health department of Greater Chennai Corporation issues the mandatory dog license to pet parents after collecting a registration fee of `50. The registration comes along with free immunisation for canines at corporation-run pet clinics across the city. Pet parents need to supply the pet’s details including name, colour, breed and age with their full name and contact details. GCC is also planning to take the registration procedure online and considering to revise the annual license charges.

Chandigarh– The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) has issued Chandigarh Registration of Pet Dog Bylaws, 2010 under which it is mandatory for pet owners to register their pets exceeding the age of four months with the civic body. Not more than 2 dogs per family are allowed. Blind persons are exempted from the licensing amount and the registration will remain valid till the pet is alive.

The registration procedure involves submission of a duly filled-in application form, an undertaking by the dog owner agreeing to adhere to the bylaws, a nominal registration charge of `200 per dog, a vaccination certificate from a registered veterinary practitioner, and two passport size photographs of the pet. After the licensing procedure is complete, a metal badge is issued which the dog has to wear on its collar for verification. Defaulters are penalised with a fine of `500 per dog and/or face impounding of their dogs by the civic authority. The municipal body had proposed amendments to the bylaws in 2018 which included increasing the registration amount to `1000 for pedigree dogs, number of dogs owned per family to 4 (if 2 of them are adopted strays) and subsidised registration fee of `1 for adopted street dogs.

PET LICENSE LAWS ACROSS THE GLOBE

Toronto, Canada- Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 349 makes it mandatory for pet parents to get individual licenses for all dogs and cats owned by them. The pets can be registered online, in person, by phone or mail by filling a simple Pet Registration Application along with the owner’s credit card and the name and contact details of the pets’ vet. ID tags are included as part of the annual license fees, which is $60 for dogs and $50 for cats.

The registration fee is significantly reduced if the animal has been spayed or neutered, and in case the owner is a senior citizen. The pet parent needs to submit proof of the pet’s sterilisation and/or their age to avail these discounts. The registration amount is utilised by the Toronto Animal Services towards shelter and care for homeless animals. Getting a pet license also makes sure that the dog or cat is safely returned to the owner in case of it getting lost by identification through license tags and microchips.

Germany- Most European countries abolished the practice of Dog Tax in the 20th Century, however, the German authorities stubbornly refuse to scrape off this law. Pet parents in Germany are, therefore, required to pay the mandatory Dog Tax (Hundesteuer) according to the number of canines they own. Service dogs are exempt from the Hundesteuer and so are rescue dogs in their first year of adoption.

The registration amount for the first dog in Berlin is 120 EUR per year while registration of each additional dog in the same family costs 180 EUR annually. Re-registration is required every time the owner moves to a new residence. Each state has its own pet registration requirements and fees. Pet owners also need to pick up after their dog and follow the local leash laws.

There is no taxation for cat ownership in the country. However, both dogs and cats need to be licensed. The dog tax and registration fees are utilised towards creation of dog-related services such as dog waste bins. In addition, many states have a mandatory procedure for personal liability insurance which covers all kinds of unexpected damages caused by pet dog(s).

New Zealand- The country has formulated regulations for canine licensing and registration under the Dog Control Act 1996. All dogs over 3 months of age need to be registered with their city or district council. The licensed dogs are required to wear a tag indicating the council, registration number and registration expiry date. Registration charges vary according to council, neuter status, urban/rural accommodation, dangerous/menacing nature and other factors. Registration fees are lower for working dogs while disabled canines are exempted from these costs.

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niccirobertson · 3 years

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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve made a concerted effort to distance myself from just about every news feed and platform that has nothing better to do than report the latest covid statistics. The reason for this is quite honestly, like many people I have had enough. Despite my best efforts, the media bombardment is so pervasive that an update got through, and instead of deleting it, I did the math.

In South Africa at the time of receiving that update there were supposedly 1 039 161 positive cases counted, with 20 033 deaths. I am no maths genius but it wasn’t a stretch to figure out that this was around 2%. I then looked for the data for the United States which is also around 2% and the UK which is around 3%. On average this virus has a mortality rate of 2.5% with the majority of those deaths affecting the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, otherwise known as co-morbidities. Except that the data reflected is questionable.

 When you sift through the conspiracy theories and start talking to credible professionals in the medical industry you begin to see a pattern emerging. Looking at the data of years gone by, pneumonia and flu viruses year on year have also resulted in between a 1% and 2% death rate. So why the hysteria?

 According to the WHO: A pandemic is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”. The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international boundaries and affect a large number of people. This happens every year but the world doesn’t come to a grinding halt because of it.  

According to the British Medical Journal the PCR test is inaccurate, picking up dead and ineffective virus particles that may be found on most people, most of the time. It states that the PCR test, never designed for this kind of testing has an error margin of 97%. That’s insanity no matter how you want to spin it. If the widely accepted method for determining whether or not a person is infected is fundamentally flawed, the resulting data is completely inaccurate.

Added to which, the death statistics are also questionable. They do not define who died because of the virus or with the virus. For example, a colleague’s mother passed away from pancreatic cancer in July, yet the death certificate states covid19 as cause of death. This is not an isolated incident.

The World Health Organisation guidelines state that “COVID-19 should be recorded on the medical certificate of cause of death for ALL decedents where the disease, or is assumed to have caused, or contributed to death, i.e. COVID-19 is the underlying cause of death”. This means no one really knows how many have died directly from a covid infection. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine has shown that one in thirteen (7.8%) deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate did not have the disease as the underlying cause of death, further distorting the data.

The decisions directly related to our lives and livelihoods are based on inaccurate or distorted data and no one is doing anything about it.

Enough about the deliberate distortion of the facts. The question is why is this happening? There is a frenetic urgency to get the world vaccinated. Bill Gates began pushing the vaccination agenda way back in 2013 if not earlier. And naturally people, at least people who can still think for themselves are extremely wary of this vaccine. At the time of writing this, the vaccine has only been available for a couple of weeks, and in this short window the significant adverse effects in those already having received the vaccination is 3% based on recent published information. Higher than the death rate of the virus. If you were to go by statistics alone, the vaccine will kill more people than the virus.

The pharmaceutical companies and their stakeholders are naturally elated that the powers that be are enforcing and coercing people into having to accept this vaccine, creating the illusion that their freedom lies on the other side of a needle. And further perpetuating the myth that drugs are going to save you. Bearing in mind that the manufacturers of this technology are free of any kind of liability arising from death or damage caused by a substance that is being trialed simultaneously on millions of people. In simple terms, if the vaccine harms you or renders you infertile you have no recourse.

Recently a second strain of the virus has emerged, This is nothing new - viruses mutate. This is why there is a different flu strain each season. It has been a year since the first strain emerged and as viruses seem to be excellent timekeepers, its right on schedule for an upgrade. This is further going to throw a spanner into the vaccine works. Will the current vaccine work with the new strain or create other complications? If people have indeed contracted the original virus, will taking the vaccine have immune suppressing effects rendering them more vulnerable to other strains? Pregnant women and women of “child bearing age” have been warned by the NHS not to take the vaccine because it may render them sterile or have deleterious effects on the foetus. But its ok to give this unknown quantity to the elderly or your child? I think not.

What happened to freedom of choice? What happened to autonomy? What happened to informed consent? What happened to common sense?  For me personally, the most disturbing part of this experience is how people I thought of as free thinking, intelligent individuals are simply kowtowing, going with the flow because they don’t want to be seen as outliers. It baffles me how so many people are afraid of voicing an opinion. It wasn’t so long ago that the Nazis used this kind of brainwashing and propaganda to commit genocide. And we are going down this path again with our eyes wide open.  

Back in early 2020 governments the world over were advised by the WHO to impose widespread lockdown measures in order to curb the spread of the virus. The media were so distracted with whether or not the virus came from a bat or a pangolin that no one thought to ask if these counter measures at controlling people was the best option for the economies of the world in the first place. No one gave any thought to the destruction that would ensue. How many people would lose their jobs, livelihoods and minds in the process. Because we trusted the people we vote for to do what is in our best interest.

 The second-largest funder of the WHO is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides 9.8% of the WHO’s funds, effectively calling the shots! After Trump pulled funding, The World Health Organisation is now effectively owned by Microsoft and China. Bloody terrifying thought that is! 

It is now too late to put the genie back in the bottle. For governments to admit that they acted without a full understanding of the facts or unable to foresee the chaos and destruction that would ensue, going back and admitting they were wrong will result in chaos, crippling class actions and people in power being forced to step down. There will be anarchy. Confidence in governments the world over has been severely compromised not to mention the unstable public option of giant pharmaceutical companies.

The puppet masters at the WHO (Gates) is also a major shareholder in Pfizer. Incidentally the Gates foundation funded the development of the Pfizer owned sterilisation contraceptive Sayana, targeting specifically third world countries. At the risk of joining the ranks of the conspiracy theorists, it seems that the company who gave birth to computer viruses has also given birth to a means of enforced sterilisation.

Getting rid of the elderly and ill, controlling those who are young and able though fear and ensuring that those who can have children are stopped in their tracks. The facts really do speak for themselves, but you can connect the dots?

Perhaps people do nothing and say nothing because they feel that their opinions don’t count? They they won’t be heard amongst the noise created by the media and the hysteria? People don’t speak up because they are afraid of what there peers may think of them. And this is why the greatest tragedies throughout human history happen. People who do nothing. People who say nothing. In the face of glaring evidence that the emperor is wearing no clothes, the average person waits for someone else to take action. We are in a mess and in the hands of people who do not have anyones best interest at heart except for themselves and their own agendas.  

So what good can possibly come from this situation? Thankfully some have realised that their health is in their own hands and no one can save them except for themselves. If you take the steps to stay healthy - eat real food, get decent sleep, surround yourself with positive people and exercise - preferably in the sunlight, chances are you won’t even know if you catch a virus because your body is innately geared towards protecting you from getting seriously ill.

 It has hopefully brought to light the logical realisation that if you aren’t feeling well, stay at home. Wash your hands and don’t sneeze on people.

 With luck, more of us will wake up and realise that no vaccine or drug can save you from bad decisions. Giant corporations are not creating vaccines because they care about you, they care about their profits. If they engineered medicine for altruistic purposes they would be non-profits not multibillion dollar organisations. And perhaps more people will realise that governments and government institutions are controlled by the private sector who are the giants they are, because we, the public created them.

We buy their products, whether the product is software, insurance, junk food or drugs. We created these organisations who are controlling the governments who are controlling us - with fear. With hope more people we will start to see the self perpetuating, destructive cycle that we have come to think of as normal, or maybe not.

 My greatest wish for you in 2021 who ever you are, wherever you are, is to wake up and take responsibility for you own health, your own choices and your own autonomy. Speak up when something doesn’t add up and stop feeding the fear.

 https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4916

https://www.icd10monitor.com/false-positives-in-pcr-tests-for-covid-19

https://www.chiropractic.org/informed-consent-and-freedom-of-choice-on-vaccination-issues/ https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/death-certificate-data-covid-19-as-the-underlying-cause-of-death/

https://sif.gatesfoundation.org/investments/pfizer/

https://www.devex.com/news/big-concerns-over-gates-foundation-s-potential-to-become-largest-who-donor-97377

#dontfeedthefear #covid #bill gates #microsoft #vaccine #pfizer #freedom #yourbodyyourchoice #think

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goth-skanking · 3 years

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so far my older sister has said the following about Covid and the prevention measure

It's all a plandemic

It's part of the New World Order - a bit of Antisemitism there

It's part of the great reset

It's just a flu

Something to do with 5G ascension

Doesn't believe in the variants

Doesn't believe the crisis in India is real

Hasn't outwardly said it - but the implication is that people who aren't actively striving towards being super healthy who contracts Covid and is very sick with it probably brought it on themselves

People who get the Vaccines are idiots

Vaccines are made up of aborted fetus cells

Vaccines are made of Chimp DNA

Vaccines are gene therapy

She has repeatedly told my 58-year-old mother she will die if she gets it

This is all something to do with communism somehow...

Medically sterilised Nasal swabs put you at risk of cancer

Masks don't work

Has falsely claimed she's medically exempt from masks

The tests don't work and give false positives

My mate has long Covid and she asked me if he had 'tried a detox to feel better??'

You can't be infected with it twice despite an NHS nurse family friend having it twice!

Nurses are being silenced from telling 'ThE TrUtH' despite people we know who work for the NHS and in Covid wards who politely think she's full of shit

2 million people attended the last anti lockdown march in London!! which is why they spread photos from the anti-Brexit march from a few years ago to prove their numbers.

I could literally go on - it's been fucking exhausting this past year. She just chats so much shit, and it is impossible to debunk everything that comes out of her mouth I've given up I'm not doing that to myself. She whines about the divides caused in our family by covid when It's literally ALL her no one else

#i hate it here

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expatimes · 3 years

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Vaccines are heading to the UK. But will everyone want them? | United Kingdom News

London, United Kingdom - Sara Saigol, a 48-year-old doctor, has lost two members of her family to COVID-19.

For her, there is no question - when the vaccine is made available, she will line up to have it.

“One was a fit and healthy 37-year-old,” she told Al Jazeera. "Not being able to breathe is a horrific way to die."

On Wednesday, the UK became the first country to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for widespread use. It will be rolled out through the National Health Service (NHS) as early as next week; the elderly, residential care home workers, and front-line health and social care workers will be given the drug first.

But with misinformation swirling around online about 5G mobile networks fuelling the virus, claims of vaccine trial volunteers dying after taking the jabs, and conspiracy theories that people will be microchipped as they accept shots, the government now faces the challenging task of battling vaccine hesitancy.

There is also some scepticism over the swift procurement of the vaccine.

According to the London-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), social media companies allow the so-called “anti-vax” movement to spread lies on their platforms.

Since last year, the CCDH says, anti-vaxxers on social media have increased their followings by about eight million people.

Unlike Saigol, 32-year-old journalist Safeera Sarjoo is in two-minds.

"I live with my parents and grandmother who are high-risk individuals so on the face of it, it makes sense to it if it means that I won't be a risk to them", she said.

“But I am sceptical at the speed at which it's been developed and rolled out. I don't feel very informed about it and the risks associated.

“It feels like it's more of a race to who can get it out, and who can lay claim to developing a vaccine. I don't want to be collateral damage over what feels like a competition. "

People take part in a coronavirus anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine, anti-5G and pro-freedom protest near Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Service, in London, Saturday, May 2, 2020 [Matt Dunham/AP]

Last month, a YouGov survey for the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, asked more than 1,000 Londoners how likely or they were to take the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Thirty-nine per cent of ethnic minority respondents said they were likely to have the vaccination, compared with 70 percent of white people. Thirty-seven percent of ethnic minority respondents said they were unlikely to take it, compared with 17 percent of white respondents.

The UK government has access to 357 million doses of vaccines from seven different developers.

But some Britons are concerned over the varying levels of efficacy.

Barrister Zaiban Alam said she would be at the “front of the queue demanding” the vaccine for her and her family.

However, Alam added she was afraid of the risk to her elderly parents, who are from a South Asian background, a community hit particularly hard by the pandemic, if they received the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine.

That drug can protect 70.4 percent of people from becoming ill, and up to 90 percent if a lower first dose is used.

“My dad is very old, fragile and vulnerable. There is no margin for error, ”she said.

People take part in a 'Resist and Act for Freedom' protest against a mandatory coronavirus vaccine, wearing masks, social distancing and a second lockdown, in Trafalgar Square, London [File: Matt Dunham/AP]

Another survey last month by the Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP), a research group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tested how receptive people were to misinformation.

The poll, which surveyed 4,000 people, found 54 percent in the UK would “definitely” accept a COVID-19 vaccine. After exposure to misinformation, the number fell by 6.4 percent.

Professor Heidi Larson, who runs the VCP, said more communication campaigns were needed before the vaccine arrives.

“There should be more local community conversations, especially in communities [and] groups who were most affected by COVID-19, to listen to and hear concerns before the vaccine arrives so healthcare professionals have time to prepare some answers to questions they will surely get when it is time to vaccinate, ”she told Al Jazeera.

'Never-ending' restrictions

Black and Asian people in the UK are twice as likely to become infected compared with white people, while at least 60 percent of UK healthcare workers who have died from COVID-19 have been from ethnic minority backgrounds.

When he saw a call-out in June for ethnic minorities to sign up for vaccine trials with the US-based biotechnology firm Novavax, in Leeds, 27-year-old property consultant Haaris Ahmed signed up.

He received his first dose on October 14, and a booster jab on November 4.

He later developed a fever, flu symptoms, soreness in his arm where he had been injected, and swollen lymph nodes, but negative tested for coronavirus when he went under full observation.

“Like everyone, I'm fed up with restrictions that have been never-ending,” he said. “I'm a firm believer that a successful vaccine or vaccines will be the way that we get out of this crisis and go back to normal.

Haaris Ahmed, a volunteer for a vaccine trial, has faith that the UK will get back to normal with the help of drugs [Courtesy: Haaris Ahmed]

“That's paired with the trust that they're not trying to inject nanobots inside me, or that Bill Gates is secretly trying to sterilise me, according to [conspiracy] theories out there. ”

The vaccine trials have so far shown immunisations are effective in preventing illness. But more research is needed to determine if they prevent someone being contagious and spreading the virus.

The government has attempted to assuage any concerns over the vaccine, but is ramping up efforts amid fears of a backlash from the anti-vaxxers.

During the pandemic, thousands have marched against the government, calling the pandemic a hoax and decrying lockdown measures as a threat to their personal freedoms.

On Sunday, The Guardian reported that the NHS was planning to enlist celebrities and “influencers” with significant numbers of social media followers to convince people to have a vaccine.

On Thursday, a day after the UK announced the landmark decision over the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, health minister Matt Hancock said he would be vaccinated on live TV to prove the drug is safe, the UK's Times reported newspaper.

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reading: week 49

this is my 3rd week of my obs&gynae rotation, so i rotated onto the gynae side having spent 2 weeks on obstetrics and absolutely loved my time there. am i converted to obstetrics? no, but i love the environment and the team. am i converted to anaesthesia? ...maybe. gynae is less my thing - my entire internal monologue all day every day is that quote about "all women do is bleed and suffer”.

spent a lot of time considering communication and how we as doctors speak to patients this week. spent a lot of time discussing how, actually, we forget that we are two people having a conversation - one side knows more about medicine, one side knows more about their life and how this condition impacts them. i think that too many doctors get caught up in ‘this is how to break bad news’ or ‘this is what i need to tell them’, forgetting that we are all humans having conversations. and also some doctors forget that their patients have feelings, and the docs and i had a good bitch about that too lol, comparing our experiences of being patients whilst also being doctors/med students.

~ under the cut ~

op-ed/essays clearing out some of my articles in my saved-for-later folder on fb, as i dislike reading on my phone; hence, some of these are kinda out of date.

✩ Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life - Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian

✩ Glastonbury fence-jumpers: 'It was girls underneath, boys over the top!' - BBC this was just cute + i miss festivals

✩ How Germany remembers the world wars - BBC News

✩ The rape of Berlin - Lucy Ash, BBC News tw: rape

medicine

✩ Researchers say blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms - Nicola Davis, The Guardian research paper below - highly! exciting!

✩ Non-invasive early detection of cancer four years before conventional diagnosis using a blood test - Chen et al., Nature Communications nb: i know v little about genomics or cancer, as they are 2 of my least favourite things in medicine. that said!! this was super interesting!! v exciting - they can’t differentiate btwn cancers but honestly they used machine learning to achieve rly high sensitivity & specificity up to 4y before diagnosis, which is often v much too late - so exciting if they can apply this to a) differentiate different types of cancer and b) extend it to a screening programme that allows patients to be treated. vvv cool, but not without drawbacks of the potential of over-treating, etc!! but still so cool.

✩ NHS blood unit systemically racist, internal report finds - Amelia Gentleman & Denis Campbell, The Guardian

�� Covid: Russia begins vaccinations in Moscow - BBC News

✩ Covid: Boris Johnson urges MPs to back tough tiers for England - BBC News

✩ Covid-19: No plans for 'vaccine passport' - Michael Gove - BBC News lots of chat about vaccines, trials, plans for roll-out amongst doctors & med students alike this week. many tweets consumed on the topic.

✩ Puberty blockers: Under-16s 'unlikely to be able to give informed consent' - BBC News absolutely furious about this. how on EARTH do we allow contraceptives to be given out - with much more serious potential consequences! - under Gillick competency (this is where under-18s can give their own consent for taking medications w/o need for parental consent, which is ordinarily required to treat under-18s in the UK) and NOT puberty blockers! which simply STOP puberty - it’s not hormone replacement therapy, which yes does have risks! and it’s much easier for people to transition, or continue with their biologically-determined puberty, after puberty blockers than to medically/surgically transition after allowing non-gender-affirming puberty to take place. oh my god i’m so furious about this.

✩ Essure: Women in England take legal action against sterilising-device maker - Sophie Hutchinson, BBC News netflix’s documentary the bleeding edge covers essure very well - highly recommend.

refugee issues

✩ E.U. Border Agency Accused of Covering Up Migrant Pushback in Greece - Matina Stevis-Gridneff, The New York Times

✩ Missing Migrants Project - Mediterranean focus - IOM this is a truly excellent resource for anyone looking to grasp the hard numbers of the refugee crisis + also great reference for anyone doing research.

✩ November summary - Aegean Boat Report ABR is a Norwegian non-profit dedicated to monitoring boat traffic in the Aegean Sea + upholding human rights, documenting injustices, and presenting these. they are running a fundraiser atm so please do donate if you can - their work is invaluable and really must continue!

environment

✩ Britain goes coal free as renewables edge out fossil fuels - Justin Rowlatt, BBC a few months old but so exciting!

culture

✩ To Understand Us, Pay Attention to the Outfits - Tanisha C Ford, The Atlantic the woman who did the costume design for ‘us’ also did it for THE MATRIX?!

books

✩ Kafka on the Shore - Murakami finished over the weekend! i love murakami’s style - describing each action the character takes, lists be damned, and the surrealism with light touches of comic relief. i still dislike kafka as i did the first time i read it - for someone supposedly so “introverted” and “introspective”, he really had a lot of misogyny to unpack, which i know is like tied up in the whole oedipus prophecy thing, but it didn’t quite sit right. i still loved oshima, though, and the setting of komura memorial library - my mental image is the same as last time and i just want to live there...also really appreciated hoshino this time! he brings so much levity to the book, even if his ~ epiphany ~ over the archduke’s trio feels a little rushed. overall: enjoyable re-read but will take my time before re-reading a third time.

✩ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn another re-read from sixth form, finished! this book is really incredible - so short yet so evocative and transporting. solzhenitsyn does an excellent job of humanising the story, not simply making it trauma porn, which is the power of this book imo. other thematic analysis: non-existent as i am not an english student!!

✩ Obstetrics & Gynaecology - Impey & Child woo the joy!!!

tv/video

✩ The Source - documentary on ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter

#reading 2020 #weekly

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Coronavirus Updates: Passengers arriving at Delhi Airport from abroad to be quarantined for 14 days

22:20 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Uttar Pradesh Latest Updates

UP govt issues new discharge policy for COVID-19 patients

Uttar Pradesh government issued a new discharge policy for patients who have recovered from COVID-19. Asymptomtic patients staying in home isolation will be considered recovered if they show no symptoms for 10 days, but they will have to stay in home isolation for 7 more days after these 10 days.

Mild asymptomatic patients admitted in COVID facility will be discharged 10 days after their initial testing or 7 days after being admitted (whichever comes later) if they show no symptoms. After being discharged they'll have to be in mandatory home isolation for 8 days.

Samples of mild symptomatics will be collected through TrueNat on 8th day of first sample. If negative they'll be discharged 10 days after first sample/10 days after show of symtoms/3 days without fever(whichever is later)&have to be in 7-day home isolation from that date.

21:13 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Maharashtra Latest Updates

Mumbai reports 995 COVID-19 new cases

995 new COVID-19 cases, 905 discharges and 62 deaths have been reported in Mumbai on Tuesday. Total number of cases rises to 1,03,262 including 23,893 active cases, 73,555 discharged patients and 5,814 deaths, said Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

21:03 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Kerala Latest Updates

720 new COVID-19 cases in Kerala today

720 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Kerala on Tuesday. The total number of positive cases in the state is now 13,994 including 8,056 active cases. Number of COVID-19 clusters goes up to 101 in the state. Of them, 18 are large clusters, The Indian Express reported.

20:47 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Railways spends up to Rs 6 lakh on coaches to ensure safety

The Railways has spent an additional Rs 3 lakh per non-AC coach and Rs 6 lakh per AC coach to ensure the safety of passengers during and after the Covid-19 pandemic with these specially designed coaches, a senior official said Tuesday.

The Rail Coach Factory (RCF) Kapurthala has manufactured two such coaches which have amenities like foot-operated washbasins, dispensers and toilet flushes, door handles which are maneuvered with the forearm and handrails coated with anti-microbial copper to prevent the spread of the infection.

These coaches also have fixtures coated with titanium dioxide and the provision for plasma air equipment in AC ducts to sterilise interiors using ionised air.

(PTI)

20:35 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Sharjeel Imam tests COVID-19 positive

Sharjeel Imam has tested positive for COVID-19, ANI reported. Delhi Police Special Cell had applied for his production warrant in Assam as he is lodged at Guwahati Central Jail and he was going to be presented before a Delhi Court on 25 July, but will not be produced now.

20:18 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Maharashtra Latest Updates

COVID-19 tally in Dharavi crosses 2,500

The coronavirus tally in Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi surpassed 2,500 on Tuesday with the addition of 10 new cases, the city civic body said.

According to a senior BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) official, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the slum -dominated area rose to 2,502 with 10 new infections.

He said Dharavi now has 151 active COVID-19 cases, while the number of recovered patients stood at 2,101.

The civic body has, however, stopped sharing figures of COVID-19 deaths, if any, in Dharavi since last month.

Spread over 2.5 square kilometres, Dharavi is considered as one of the largest slums in Asia with a population of over 6.5 lakh.

(PTI)

19:49 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Karnataka Latest Updates

BS Yediyurappa rules out lockdown extension

Lockdown is not the solution for controlling COVID-19 and resource mobilisation is equally important for a government to function, Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday said as he ruled out extension of the week-long shutdown in the city and elsewhere.

Addressing the people of the state, he stressed on maintaining social distancing and wearing masks and said experts have advised 5T strategy — trace, track, test, treat and technology — to control the coronavirus spread.

"We had been successful at the beginning in controlling the COVID, but in recent days especially in Bengaluru the COVID cases have increased....I want to tell the people of the state that for the control of the virus, lockdown was not the solution. The solution is wearing masks and maintaining social distancing," Yediyrappa said.

(PTI)

19:29 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Amarnath Yatra 2020 cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

The annual Amarnath Yatra, the Hindu pilgrimage to a shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, has been cancelled in view of the coronavirus pandemic, reports said on Tuesday.

"Based upon the circumstances, the Board decided with heavy heart that it is not advisable to hold and conduct this year's Shri Amarnathji Yatra and expressed its regret to announce the cancellation of Yatra 2020," the Amarnath Shrine board's statement was quoted by NDTV.

18:55 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Tamil Nadu Latest Updates

4,965 new COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu today

Tamil Nadu recorded 4,965 new COVID-19 cases and 75 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking active cases to 51,344 and death toll to 2,626, the state health department said.

18:18 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Bihar Latest Updates

Rahul Gandhi slams Bihar govt over 'mismanagement' of COVID-19

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday criticised the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government over the "mismanagement" of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said, "The state of the corona pandemic in Bihar is critical and out of control of the state government. Unclaimed bodies lying in the hospital ward expose the 'good governance' of the Bihar government."

17:40 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

NITI Aayog says will make COVID-19 vaccine affordable

Dr VK Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog on Tuesday said, "India's two COVID-19 vaccines are in phase 1 and 2 of trials. Discussions have already begun how will the vaccines be made available to all those who need it."

"The government will leave no stone unturned to ensure people of India and international community have access to an Indian vaccine as early as possible. Every possible facilitation will be ensured making sure trials conducted scientifically and ethically, and we arrive at an affordable option," he added.

17:35 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Centre says evidence shows valved masks are effective protection

Rajesh Bhushan, OSD, Health Ministry on Tuesday said, "...Evidence suggests that with a valved mask the person wearing it is safe but if they are asymptomatic person then propensity of that person infecting others is there. This is an evolving situation."

#WATCH: ...Evidence suggests that with a valved mask the person wearing it is safe but if they are asymptomatic person then propensity of that person infecting others is there. This is an evolving situation: Rajesh Bhushan, OSD, Health Ministry pic.twitter.com/XB3XPxIK7c

— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2020

16:52 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Delhi Latest Updates

77% population of Delhi susceptible to COVID-19, finds survey

Dr. Sujeet Kumar Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday said that spoke about the findings gathered by the sero surveillance conducted in Delhi.

"Sero surveillance was done in Delhi to estimate the prevalence of COVID-19 among the general community of Delhi. Nearly six months into the pandemic, 22.86 percent people are affected and 77 percent of the population is susceptible," he said.

He added, "8 out of 11 districts have sero-prevalence more than 20 percent. In central, northeast, north and Shahdara districts have sero-prevalence of about 27 percent."

16:44 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Centre says 30 states, UTs have positivity rate lower than average

30 states and Union Territories have a positivity rate lower than the national average, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday in a briefing on the COVID-19 situation in the country.

The statement added that the number of COVID-19 deaths per million population in India continues to be among the lowest in the world.

16:24 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Aggressive testing is necessary, says Centre

The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that "aggressive" testing is necessary to reduce the spread of coronavirus in the country.

"Aggressive testing is necessary to bring down COVID-19 positivity rate; the aim is to maintain this level of testing so as to bring down positivity rate below 5 percent," said Rajesh Bhushan, OSD, Health Ministry.

He added that 19 States and Union Territories are performing more than 140 tests per day per million population.

15:52 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Maharashtra Latest Updates

BMC takes action against private hospitals overcharging COVID-19 patients

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Tuesday reportedly "launched a crackdown" on private hospitals in Mumbai for "overcharging" for COVID-19 treatment, News18 reported.

"The civic agency has received 1,115 complaints so far and close to Rs 1.5 crore has been refunded. It is being reported that patients were overcharged by 10.48 percent," the report said.

15:18 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Updates

Phase II trial finds Chinese COVID-19 vaccine is safe, induces immune response

A phase II clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, conducted in China, has found that it is safe and induces an immune response, a study published in The Lancet says.

Scientists, including those from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the trial sought to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine candidate.

They said the results provide data from a wider group of participants than their earlier phase I trial, including a small sub-group of participants aged over 55 years and older.

15:09 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Karnataka Latest Updates

Karnataka CM to address state at 5 pm today

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa will address the people of the state through youtube and facebook live on Tuesday evening, his office said.

Yediyurappa's address to the people of the state comes as about a week-long lockdown in Bengaluru urban and rural areas, aimed at controlling the spike in COVID cases, nears it end. Bengaluru urban and rural areas are currently under "complete lockdown" since 8 pm of 14 July and it will be effective till 5 am on 22 July.

14:40 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Nepal Latest Updates

Nepal to resume domestic, international flights from 17 Aug

Nepal will resume domestic and international flight operations starting from 17 August, over four months after they were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On 20 March, the government had banned all passengers, including Nepalis, from entering the country. Four days later, it imposed a nationwide lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus.

14:35 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

FabiFlu more economical, effective treatment option for COVID-19: Glenmark

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Tuesday said its generic version of antiviral drug Favipiravir, FabiFlu, is more economical and effective than other drugs available in the market approved for emergency use for treatment of COVID-19.

The company was reacting to a letter sent by India's drug regulator DCGI seeking clarifications on the concerns raised and allegations made by a Member of Parliament.

13:59 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Puducherry Latest Updates

Puducherry reports 91 new cases, 1 death today

Puducherry registers 91 new case and one death, reports PTI. With this, the tally in the Union Territory rises to 2,179 and toll is 30. Director of Health and Family Welfare S Mohan Kumar says the morality rate is 1.4%.

13:15 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Odisha Latest Updates

Odisha's toll climbs to 103 with 6 more deaths, 647 new cases reported

The toll due to COVID-19 in Odisha crossed the 100-mark on Tuesday, with six more fatalities taking the total to 103, reports PTI. At least 647 more people have tested positive for the disease, pushing the tally to 18,757, he said. All six fatalities were recorded from as many districts in the state.

13:06 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

India's recovery rate now at 62.7%

As many as 7,24,578 COVID-19 patients have been cured and discharged so far, the Union Health Ministry has said in its latest update. India’s COVID-19 recovery rate now stands at 62.7 percent.

12:58 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Arunachal Pradesh Latest Updates

50 new cases reported in Arunachal; count rises to 790

Fifty more people, including nine Army jawans and six police personnel, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, taking the northeastern state's tally to 790 on Tuesday, reports PTI.

Thirty-four fresh cases were reported in the Capital Complex region, 10 in the border district of Tawang, five in Lower Subansiri and one in West Siang, he said.

12:50 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Rajasthan Latest Updates

Rajasthan's COVID-19 total reaches 30,741, toll rises to 574

Six more people succumbed to COVID-19 in Rajasthan on Tuesday, taking the toll to 574, while 351 fresh cases pushed the state's tally to 30,741, reports PTI. It said 21,494 patients have been discharged so far and the state now has 7,868 active COVID-19 cases.

The fresh cases include 103 in Alwar, 43 in Jalore, 32 in Nagaur, 27 in Ajmer, 23 in Sirohi, 18 in Dausa and 15 in Kota.

12:45 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Maharashtra Latest Updates

COVID-19 total in Aurangabad rises to 11,420

The number of COVID-19 cases in Aurangabad reached 11,420 in the Maharashtra district after 179 more people tested positive for the disease on Tuesday, reports PTI. The new cases included 123 from the city, 46 from rural parts of the district, and 10 from various entry points in Aurangabad, an official said.

12:42 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Delhi Latest Updates

41 arrested for violating norms by partying at Delhi cafe

Forty-one people, including the owner of a cafe, were arrested for allegedly violating social distancing norms by partying at a cafe in outer Delhi's Paschim Vihar area amid the coronavirus pandemic, reports PTI.

A raid was conducted by police on Sunday night after a constable who was patrolling in the area saw vehicles parked outside the cafe and heard loud noises coming from the house, they said.

12:31 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Results of sero-prevalence study shows 23.48% have antibodies

The Centre on Tuesday said that the results of sero-prevalence study show that 23.48% have antibodies, reports ANI. The study also indicated that a large number of infected persons remain asymptomatic

Results of sero-prevalence study show that nearly 6 months into the epidemic, only 23.48% of ppl are affected in Delhi, which has several pockets of dense population.This can be attributed to efforts taken by Govt as well as citizen compliance to COVID appropriate behaviours: GoI https://t.co/kdobGqlWcj

— ANI (@ANI) July 21, 2020

11:02 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Mizoram Latest Updates

11 BSF jawans, one Army personnel test positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram

At least 13 more people, including 11 BSF jawans, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, pushing the total tally in the state to 297, reports PTI.

A total of 133 samples were tested for the disease on Monday, it said. Barring the Army personnel, all others, including a civilian, are asymptomatic, the statement said.

10:40 (IST)

Coronavirus in Delhi Latest Updates

Delhi reports 954 new cases, recovery rate at 84%

Delhi reported 954 new cases so far, taking the total positive cases to 1,23,747, with 1,04,918 having recovered till now. The recovery rate in the National Capital stands at 84 percent.

10:27 (IST)

Coronavirus in Japan Latest Updates

Downloads of Japan's COVID-19 app reach 7.7 mn

Downloads of Japan’s coronavirus contact-tracing app have slowed since its debut last month, a blow to the government’s aim to use smartphones to head off a second wave of infection.

Just 27 positive cases have been registered through the app, named COCOA for Contact-Confirming Application, even as Tokyo saw new daily cases surge to almost 300 in recent days. Downloads stood at 7.69 million as of Monday, said health ministry official Yasuyuki Sahara. In the first week after its 19 June start, downloads had reached 4.4 million.

09:55 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Govt warns against use of N-95 masks with valved respirator

The Centre has written to all states and union territories warning against the use of N-95 masks with valved respirator by people, saying these don't prevent the virus from spreading out and are "detrimental" to the measures adopted for its containment.

The Director-General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health, in a letter to the Principal Secretaries of health and medical education of states, said it has been observed that there is "inappropriate use" of N-95 masks, particularly those with the valved respirator, by the public other than designated health workers.

09:34 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Russia Latest Updates

Russia’s elite got access to experimental Covid-19 vaccine from April: Report

Scores of members of Russia’s business and political elite have been given early access to an experimental vaccine against Covid-19, according to people familiar with the effort, as the country races to be among the first to develop an inoculation, reports Bloomberg.

Top executives at companies including aluminum giant United Co. Rusal, as well as billionaire tycoons and government officials began getting shots developed by the state-run Gamaleya Institute in Moscow as early as April, the people said. They declined to be identified as the information isn’t public.

09:16 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

India reports over 37,000 new cases, 587 deaths in past 24 hrs

India reports 37,148 new cases, taking the its total count to 11,55,191. The toll rises by 587 to 28,084. Total active cases are now more than 4 lakh.

09:05 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Updates

Over a million doses of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine possible by September: Researcher

Early estimates of the production a million doses of the University of Oxford's experimental COVID-19 vaccine by September could be an underestimate depending on how quickly late-stage trials can be completed, a researcher said on Monday, reports Reuters.

"There might be a million doses manufactured by September: that now seems like a remarkable underestimate, given the scale of what's going on," Adrian Hill of University of Oxford said, referring to the manufacturing capability of partner AstraZeneca.

08:52 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Sikkim Latest Updates

Sikkim to remain under complete lockdown till 27 July

The Sikkim government yesterday announced imposition of a complete lockdown in the state from today till 27 July in view of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases.

Government offices, shops, commercial establishments, institutions, markets and factories will remain closed except where a specific exemption is granted, according to a notification.

08:36 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Serum to apply for local trials on Oxford's vaccine in a week

With the trials of COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University showing encouraging results, Serum Institute of India (SII) on Monday said it will apply for licence from the Indian regulator to start clinical trials of the shot in a week's time.

"The trials have shown promising results and we are extremely happy about it. We will be applying for the licensure trials to the Indian regulator in a week's time. As soon as they grant us permission, we will begin with the trials for the vaccine in India. In addition, we will soon start manufacturing the vaccine in large volumes," SII Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said.

08:03 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Clinical trials of Covaxin to start at Bhubaneswar from tomorrow

Human clinical trials of the country's indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine is set to begin this week at a Bhubaneswar-based institute – one of the 12 centres selected by the ICMR for conducting phase one and two of the process, a senior official said.

The human trials of BBV152 Covid Vaccine or Covaxin will begin on Wednesday in a special laboratory set up at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM (IMS & SUM) Hospital, in accordance with the protocols laid down by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), reports PTI.

07:54 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Indian medical experts hail Oxford trial results for Covid-19 vaccine

Medical experts in India on Monday hailed the results of Oxford University's early-stage human trials for a Covid-19 vaccine, with some saying it's the "most scientifically done" among all such exercises, while others expressing hope that the final trials will "bear fruit".

From clinicians to pathology experts, doctors in the country feel the Oxford trials have been the "most transparent" one by far.

07:52 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

ICMR, Union health ministry advise states on how to enhance testing capacity

The ICMR and the Union health ministry have suggested short and medium term methods to all states and union territories for enhancing their COVID-19 testing capacity.

In a joint letter issued on 17 July, Union health ministry secretary Preeti Sudan and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava said the evolving scenario demands for enhanced testing capabilities to handle any surge in testing demands.

Increasing the testing capacity may be achieved by adding more laboratories for COVID-19 testing and enhancing the existing testing capacity of the approved laboratories, the letter said.

07:49 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Delhi Latest Updates

Hindu Rao hospital nurse tests 'positive' again, NDMC says nothing to worry

A nurse employed at a civic-run dedicated COVID-19 hospital has tested positive again after recovering, but the municipal authorities on Monday claimed there was nothing to worry as it ostensibly is the "dead virus" left in her body from the previous infection.

The hospital, run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), was declared a dedicated coronavirus facility on 14 June.

07:47 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in India Latest Updates

Serum Institute of India eyes licence to manufacture Oxford vaccine

The Serum Institute of India says it will seeking to get the licence to manufacture the vaccine developed at the Oxford University, reports NDTV. Trials will begin in India as soon as the license is procured. The vaccine has been found to be both effective and safe in early trials, according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet.

07:44 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Assam Latest Updates

Assam records 1,093 new cases; infection total crosses 25,000-mark

Assam breached the 25,000-mark in COVID-19 cases with 1,093 fresh cases reported on Monday, while one more person died due to the disease in the state, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

The state, at present, has 7,936 active coronavirus patients, who are being treated in different hospitals and COVID care centres, he said on Twitter.

📌Alert ~ 1093 new #COVID19 ve+ patients in Assam today with 448 cases from Guwahati City. With 20000 + tests carried out today, our daily positivity rate is only 5% ↗️Total cases 25092 ↗️Active cases 7936 ↗️Deaths 58 11:55 PM/July 19/Day's total 1093#AssamCovidCount pic.twitter.com/v6Tog5jy1k

— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) July 20, 2020

07:35 (IST)

Coronavirus Outbreak in Goa Latest Updates

Human trials of Covaxin begin at Goa's Redkar Hospital: Pramod Sawant

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that the human trials of coronavirus vaccine have begun at the state's Redkar Hospital and congratulated the team behind it.

The country's top drug regulator had recently given a green signal for human clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin, which has been developed by the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the ICMR and the National Institute of Virology

Human trials of #Covaxin, an indigenously developed vaccine for #COVID19 has begun at Redkar Hospital in Goa. This is a testimony of India's immense potential in healthcare innovation. My best wishes to the entire team working on #Covaxin. #IndiaFightsCOVID19

— Dr. Pramod Sawant (@DrPramodPSawant) July 20, 2020

Coronavirus LATEST Updates: Sharjeel Imam has tested positive for COVID-19, ANI reported. Delhi Police Special Cell had applied for his production warrant in Assam as he is lodged at Guwahati Central Jail and he was going to be presented before a Delhi Court on 25 July, but will not be produced now.

The annual Amarnath Yatra, the pilgrimage to a shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, has been cancelled in view of the coronavirus pandemic, reports said on Tuesday.

The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that "aggressive" testing is necessary to reduce the spread of coronavirus in the country.

He added that 19 States and Union Territories are performing more than 140 tests per day per million population.

Delhi's sero-prevalence study has discovered that 23.48 percent of the people have been affected by the novel coronavirus in the national capital, which has several pockets of dense population.

The Centre has written to all states and union territories warning against the use of N-95 masks with valved respirator by people, saying these don't prevent the virus from spreading out and are 'detrimental' to the measures adopted for its containment.

India reports 37,148 new cases, taking its total count to 11,55,191. The toll rises by 587 to 28,084. Total active cases are now more than 4 lakh.

The Serum Institute of India says it will seeking to get the licence to manufacture the vaccine developed at the Oxford University, reports NDTV. The vaccine has been found to be both effective and safe in early trials, according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet.

The total number of coronavirus cases crossed 11 lakh with a single-day spike of 40,425 cases on Monday, while the toll rose to 27,497 with 681 new casualties reported. It is the first time the number of new cases registered was above 40,000.

The total tally of 11,18,043 cases includes 3,90,459 active cases and 7,00,087 cured/discharged/migrated patients and the toll. The health ministry said that the recovery rate is now 62.62 percent.

Meanwhile, a vaccine candidate developed at the University of Oxford has shown encouraging results in early human testing and appears to be "safe well-tolerated, and immunogenic", according to a study published in The Lancet on Monday.

Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine produces 'strong antibodies', shows initial study

Trials by the Oxford University involving 1,077 people showed that the injection led to them making antibodies and white blood cells that can fight coronavirus. The vaccine, named 'ChAdOx1 nCoV-19', has been made from a harmless virus called 'chimpanzee cold virus'.

"Our preliminary findings show that the candidate ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine given as a single dose was safe and tolerated, despite a higher reactogenicity profile than the control vaccine, MenACWY," the researchers, led by Pedro M Folegatti and Katiet Ewer, wrote in the study.

"No serious adverse reactions to ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 occurred. The majority of adverse events reported were mild or moderate in severity, and all were self-limiting," the study said.

The clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on humans began in April. The human vaccine trial has been developed by scientists at Oxford University's Jenner Institute.

Reportedly, the scientists also said that they "found their experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a dual immune response in people aged 18 to 55 that lasted at least two months after they were immunised".

The study showed that the vaccine induced strong antibody and T-cell immune responses up to day 56 of the ongoing trial.

“We are seeing good immune response in almost everybody,” said Dr Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University. “What this vaccine does particularly well is trigger both arms of the immune system,” he said.

ICC postpones Men's T20 World Cup due to COVID-19 pandemic

The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the postponement of this year's Men's T20World Cup in Australia due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The T20 World Cup was slated to be played in Australia from 18 October to 15 November this year.

"The IBC Board (the commercial subsidiary of the ICC) agreed to continue to monitor the rapidly changing situation (regarding coronavirus pandemic) and assess all the information available in order to make a considered decision on future hosts to ensure the sport is able to stage safe and successful global events in 2021 and 2022," ICC said in a statement.

"The IBC Board will also continue to evaluate the situation in relation to being able to stage the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2021 in New Zealand in February next year. In the meantime, planning for this event continues as scheduled," the statement added.

ICC Chief Executive Manu Sawhney said their number one priority was to protect the health and safety of everyone involved in the sport.

Delhi seems to have reached COVID-19 peak, says AIIMS chief

Certain areas of Delhi have hit their peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, while certain other areas in the city are yet to reach the peak, said AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria on Monday. He added that there is not much evidence of community transmission happening at the national level.

"Certain areas have hit their peak in COVID-19 cases. Delhi seems to have done so because the cases have declined significantly. Certain areas have yet to reach the peak. They will reach the peak a little later," Guleria said, while addressing a press conference.

The National Capital had witnessed a surge in the cases of novel coronavirus cases over the past one month. However, the number of active cases has seen a dip over the past few weeks.

Bengal govt to enforce lockdown for two days every week

In light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the state, the West Bengal government announced a lockdown in the state for two days every week starting from 23 July.

In a press meet, the West Bengal home secretary said, "There will be a two-day complete lockdown every week starting from Thursday. Lockdown will be on Thursday and Saturday this week. This lockdown has been imposed in addition to running a broad-based containment zone approach."

The two days of lockdown will be decided on a weekly basis.

"All views have been taken into account and it has been decided the days for the lockdown will be announced each week. There will be complete lockdown in offices and transport," the official added.

State-wise cases and deaths

Maharashtra reported 176 deaths and 8,240 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. The total count of cases now stands at 3,18,695, including 1,75,029 recovered cases and 1,31,334 active cases.

Meanwhile, Mumbai reported 1,043 new COVID-19 cases, 965 cured patients and 41 deaths. The total number of cases in the city stands at 1,02,267, including 23,865 active cases, 72,650 discharged patients and 5,752 deaths.

A total 4,985 COVID-19 cases and 70 deaths were reported in Tamil Nadu. The total number of cases has risen to 1,75,678, including 51,348 active cases and 2,551 deaths.

Delhi reported 954 new COVID-19 positive cases, 1,784 recovered /discharged/migrated patients and 35 deaths. The total count of cases has risen to 1,23,747 including 1,04,918 recovered/discharged/migrated and 3,663 deaths.

Karnataka reported 3,648 COVID-19 cases and 72 deaths, taking active cases to 42,216 and toll to 1,403. Kerala reported 794 COVID-19 cases on Monday, taking the number of active cases to 7,611. A total of 5,618 patients have been discharged so far in the state.

Punjab reported 411 new COVID-19 positive cases and eight deaths. The total number of cases has risen to 10,510, including 3,130 active cases, 7,118 discharged patients and 262 deaths.

Telangana recorded 1,198 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths. The total count of cases has risen to 46,274, including 11,530 active cases and 422 deaths.

Uttar Pradesh reported 1,924 COVID-19 cases and 46 deaths in the last 24 hours. The active cases stand at 19,137 and the toll has risen to 1,192. A total of 30,831 patients have been discharged so far.

Rajasthan reported 956 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths till 8.30 pm on Monday. The total number of cases has risen to 30,390, including 7,627 active cases and 568 patients have died due to the disease.

A total of 998 COVID-19 cases and 20 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours in Gujarat. The state's count of cases has risen to 49,439, including 11,613 active cases, 35,659 cured/discharged patients and 2,167 deaths.

Manipur's COVID-19 case count has risen to 1,925 with 14 new cases reported today. The number of recovered cases is 1,320 and there are 605 active cases.

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An opportunity to volunteer in a hospital abroad

For most medical students, the highlight of med school is their medical elective. An opportunity to plan a project anywhere in the world doing anything they want to (so long as it benefits their medical training.) Struck by the travel bug aged 17 on a school trip to Belize, I couldn’t wait to go exploring again and it was just brilliant to be able to combine this with volunteering in a hospital in Ghana. I chose Ghana as it would be my first solo adventure so I wanted somewhere relatively safe, friendly and where English was the main lingo. Ghana fit the bill perfectly.

An experience that will stay with me

I expected to have my eyes opened, to be shocked at times, saddened at others, but nothing could prepare me for life volunteering in a rural Ghanaian hospital. Ghana is considered a wealthy country by African standards, so what I saw was probably tame compared with other electives. But for me, the experience was life changing and has left me with memories – both good and bad – that will last a lifetime.

I quickly fell in love with Ghana. It’s delightfully chaotic, always colourful and vibrant. Men stroll past with suitcases balanced on their heads, chickens roam free EVERYWHERE, children dance with insane innate rhythm in the streets and I received daily wedding proposals – for 10 goats you say?!

Volunteering in an urban hospital in Ghana

After 3 weeks of travel and getting my bearings, I started my volunteer project in the city. Working alongside a team of Ghanaian medical students in a teaching hospital to learn as much about tropical medicine in 2 weeks as was insanely possible. Once I arrived at my rural destination, I would not always have the support of a medical team behind me so I needed to learn and learn fast.

Photo’s taken 10 years ago before I learnt about photography!

A Culture Shock

Whilst the hospital where I was based in was large and not dissimilar to a UK hospital in terms of amenities, it was still a huge culture shock. The wards were filthy and when a patient vomited, staff just stepped over it leaving the smell to filter through the entire ward. Patients were left naked, incontinent and confused with absolute zero privacy on a mixed gender ward. Clinic were heavily oversubscribed and patients presented so late there was often little that could be done – such as the patient who had a parotid tumour stretching from his ear to the tip of his shoulder! Senior doctors referred to me as “You! Obruni!” Yes, Obruni means white person. How was this ok in 2008?!

An opportunity to work with talented doctors

Whilst the sanitary conditions and privacy were definitely not up to the standard I had come to expect, what I did realise was just how knowledgeable and talented the doctors were. The medical students would go home at 3 am, after we’d danced the night away, and open their textbooks working until the sun came up. When asked questions on ward rounds they would produce detailed answers that could have been lifted from a book. I however, loitered at the back cringing and hoping they wouldn’t ask me anything!

Volunteering in a rural hospital in Ghana

After my 2 weeks were up, I headed to a village, north of Accra and settled into the little hut that would be home for the next 2 months. It was bug central and we only had freezing cold bucket baths but it was nice to have somewhere to call home after moving about so much prior to this.

Initially, I shadowed one of the three doctors who ran the tiny community hospital, learning loads from them. But after a few days of shadowing, it was my turn to step up and play doctor in the emergency department. At this point I had 1 year left of med school. I was perhaps more knowledgable that the ‘medical officers’ who staffed the emergency department and had just 1 or 2 years of training. But I was the first to admit that there were HUGE gaps in my knowledge. Fortunately, I was there with some other medical students and together we did the very best we could with limited knowledge, limited resources, a pile of textbooks and very occasional contact with the doctors who rarely answered their phones!

Working with a lack of hospital resources

Not only did we have gaps in our medical knowledge to contend with but also lack of facilities and a lack of money to deal with as well. For example, I saw a child who had seizures. Initially I presumed they were actually just febrile convulsions where a young child fits with a fever – pretty common. However after seeing the child have an absence seizure I realised the 3-year-old probably had a form of Epilepsy. Now in the UK, the child would definitely get a CT brain scan for their first real seizure. They would then be observed overnight, closely monitored then followed up in outpatient clinic. If it happened a 2nd time, anti-epileptic treatment would likely get initiated. Here however, there would be no scan. The family couldn’t afford to have their child admitted for observation and quite frankly, it was unlikely there would be space anyway. All we could do was educate the family about first aid and advise them to come back if it happened again. We couldn’t even get hold of the doctors to discuss initiating treatment.The sub standard care we were able to give was incredibly frustrating and something we never really got used to!

Chaos in the operating theatre

We spent some time in theatre which again was a real shocker! Minor (or not-so-minor) operations were conducted in the corridor. Tools were ‘sterilised’ by scrubbing with a toothbrush and sometimes the water supply cut out entirely. The anaethetist had 18 months training and no formal medical qualification. He would often turn off the anesthetics too early to conserve funds. This meant it wasn’t uncommon for a patient to start coming around whilst the last sutures were going in. Staff would just hold them down whilst they thrashed about. It was barbaric and incredibly distressing to see.

A different way of life

It was often difficult to reason with the medical team. After all this was the way they had been doing things forever and they saw no reason to change. Life in general is a lot tougher than back home and the patients seemed to tolerate things without question even when we couldn’t believe our eyes! I remember on labor ward, pleading with a doctor to give a lady a c-section. She’d been pushing for hours with a breech twin and it was clear she was exhausted. The response? “She is fine, she is just LAZY!”

Chaos on the labour ward

After babies were born on the labor ward they would be wrapped in a single thin blanket and placed in buckets at the end of the bed! Our requests for more blankets fell on silent ears. Most distressing of all was the lady who had stillborn twins. She lay in a ward surrounded by women with their babies whilst she gazed silently at the ceiling.

Volunteering with the rural outreach programme

After a few weeks at the base hospital, I headed out with the rural outreach team in an old ambulance each morning, providing care in the most rural deprived areas. In these clinics there were no doctors. There were dedicated midwives, medical officers and sometimes just a disease surveillance officer doing the absolute best they could with minimal training. I would see 30 or so patients a morning with everything from Malaria to typhoid to TB all whilst trying to pass on as much of my limited knowledge as possible to the existing staff. They listened attentively soaking up any knowledge I could impart and together we worked to provide as much care as possible in some heavily deprived areas.

Frustrating cultural and financial barriers

Again we battled with cultural and financial barriers. I remember a 10 year old who came in with malaria. Now there is malaria and then there is Malaria with a capital M. Different strains of it determine how badly affected the person will be, whether they will need hospital admission and whether it could endanger their lives. Now this kid I suspected, had the capital M Malaria. He desperately needed admission. However his sister who he was with could not afford to take the day off work to get him to hospital. I knew from similar cases that the doctors at the hospital would probably make an exception and treat him for free but I had absolutely no way to get him there, There was no ambulance in these parts and try as I might, I don’t think his sister could really comprehend how ill her little brother actually was. After lot’s of arguing and pleading, we did the best we could. We hooked him up to a drip, pumped him full of fluids over a few hours and gave him the oral medication which would treat the milder form of malaria without needing hospital admission. I doubted it would be enough and I only hope they sought further help if and when he deteriorated.

Volunteering in the community

In addition to helping to run the rural clinics, I also got involved with community life – probably my favourite aspect of this volunteer work. This involved doing house visits to little mud huts where a whole family slept in one bed, providing health and nutrition classes to primary school children and sex-ed lessons to the teenagers. We also gave the children quick health checks, gave some immunisations and offered free HIV testing for staff and the teenage students.

Volunteering at the baby clinic

Baby clinic was always fun. I’d get involved giving advice to the mothers, vaccinating the babies and helping to weigh them. The technique being to hang the baby in a one size fits all nappy seat and hope the baby didn’t fall through the leg hole and trying to catch them if they did! I loved being part of the community and helping these women in whatever way I could.

Reflecting on volunteering in a hospital in Ghana

Whilst I was often shocked and appalled by the conditions in these hospitals and rural clinics, one thing I would say is that the staff were incredibly hard-working and dedicated. They did the absolute best they could with very minimal resources. Where they could, they showed compassion and treated patients even when they could not afford it – much to our relief! Attitudes are different, people are tougher, priorities not the same. It was a huge learning curve for me. I developed so much in my short time volunteering there. I went back a more confident, self-assured medical student relieved to be working in the NHS.

Maybe the NHS isn’t so bad?!

Now the NHS is a long way from perfect. Under-funded with waiting lists that no one thinks are acceptable. Don’t even get me started on Jeremy Hunt the UK health minister. But volunteering in a hospital in Ghana really did put things in perspective. Our patients are treated with dignity, allowed privacy and have access to all the investigations and treatments when they need them most and at no cost to them. Patients don’t need to choose if to put food on the table for their family or allow one child to get medical treatment. When they attend to see their GP, they know their doctor will be full qualified and will have had training for a minimum of 8 years. So when I get frustrated with the lack of funding, lack of staff, the huge waiting lists, I think back to my time volunteering in Ghana and feel lucky – sometimes we just don’t know how good we really have it.

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People With Rhesus Negative Blood May Be Aliens

Acid for Blood - Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Studies conducted on rhesus negative blood types show that they are missing the Rhesus factor, a protein substance present in the red blood cells of other humans.

Theories suggest that people with Rhesus negative (RH) blood may be from outside this world.

Others suggest they are fallen angels from the heavens above or they belong to an alien race from somewhere in the vast darkness of space.

What is clear is that those who have with Rhesus (RH) negative blood are different and unique.

A person who has RH negative O blood is able to serve as a donor to any person regardless of their blood type. But if they need blood, only their own type will suffice.

They represent 15% of the human race and are mostly from northern Europe.

The four common blood types of today include A, B, AB and O. The differences between each blood type is dependent on the proteins in the blood, but when it comes to RH negative blood types, which make up about 10 to 15 percent of the population, they don’t have these proteins.

The question that is on the minds of scientists now, is where this group of RH negative blood type people originates from. Looking back about 35,000 years, scientists believe that the blood type is linked to specific tribes and groups. Europeans have the greatest incidence of this blood type, but only 3% of African-Americans have it, and only 1% of Asian people have it.

Some common characteristics of people with this blood type include having a higher IQ, having a lower body temperature, having more awareness (physically and emotionally), having red hair, being sensitive to heat, and having blue, green or hazel colored eyes.

This blood type is shrouded in even more mystery when we look at pregnant women. RH negative women who become pregnant have difficulty delivering a baby with an RH positive blood type, as their bodies naturally attack and try to kill the fetus. Thus, they are given a special sterilized solution. (Anti-D or RHo (D) immunoglobulin)

But, why would the woman’s body attack the offspring it’s been helping give life to?

This is where a relatively new theory comes in and suggests that it’s possible alien life has influenced this blood type. What’s even stranger is that almost every person who has reported being abducted by (or interacted with) aliens has the RH negative blood type.

It’s certainly very possible that aliens visited our planet, as they’ve done for centuries, and somehow tooled around with the genetics of mankind. After all, history from all over the world has shown time and time again, through ancient texts and depictions, that we’ve been visited by beings not of this world.

What do you think about the blood type that is missing a key link to evolutionary humans? Could it be that some of us have alien blood running through our veins?

Angela Bruce

Er, no. Rhesus negative people cannot donate to “anyone, regardless of blood type” ! Only O neg can do that. B- can give to AB+ , AB- , B+ & B- but not O+ or O-; A- can give to AB+ , AB- , A+ & A- but not O+ or O-.

Margaret Worrall

Read it again, he said ‘A person who has RH negative O blood is able to serve as a donor to any person regardless of their blood type. But if they need blood, only their own type will suffice.’

Angela Bruce

It was edited after I made the comment.

Margaret Worrall

Donna Cannon

Ridiculous post! ….Haaaahaha…..!

Xavier McHenry

Not as bad as 90% of the posts about it. lol

Nolan Bad Heart Bull

You have no idea of the knowledge some people have.

Dee Angott

Libby

Dee Angott

You have no idea how in aw I am.

Dee Angott

No. You really don’t. True statement, very!

Penny Mayes

Are we supposed to believe this stuff when so much of it is wrong? RH neg women are not sterilised – my first born was RH positive, her sister RH negative, both now in their 30s with children of their own.

amfrancis2

I was given rogan shots during my first, my second and third pregnancies and after because both 1st and 2nd were positive, but because I was fixed after the 3rd I didn’t need a shot even though she was positive.

kim

I has 17 shots with my second. I almost died! I lost so much blood I passed out. There was so much blood on the bed it looked like a horror movie. I passed out on the toilet. I’m sure it was a lovely sight.

Margaret Worrall

He didn’t mean sterilized the way you took it. It was the wrong word to use. They are given an injection of antibodies to prevent the baby being rejected. It is usually only necessary with the first pregnancy.

Lisa K Gregg

Actually it is during all pregnancies if the spouse if positive blood type or blood type unknown. Also it would be 2 shots, one about half way through just in case the babies blood gets in your blood stream and after delivery they test the baby right away and if the baby is positive you get another shot to make sure if any of the babies blood got in you during birth you don’t develop the anti-bodies. I am 0 Neg and had to have the first shot twice. Both my kids are negative luckily.

Margaret Worrall

I am O neg my partner was O pos. I have four children, I had the shot after my first child was born only. so No it isn’t always with all pregnancies.

Jessie Robinette

Incorrect. It’s the subsequent pregnancies that are at risk, because the mother’s body builds the antibodies due to that initial incompatibility.

kim

I’m Rh neg and I had a miscarriage before my first and second child. I have learned that only O pos men can get me pregnant AND that I am only attracted to O pos men. Weird huh. My kids like to remind me that I was supposed to have 4 kids (mostly when they are being annoying lol).

Angela

i have had the same thing happen to me.All three of my surviving children are o poss, and so is my husband.

kim

I had a suspicion that was what was going on. My son was allergic to my breast milk.

John Merrick

We all know where this propaganda is heading.. kill Whitey.

Expect to see more of this type of garbage as Whites slide into minority status, everywhere they have made their homes.

Xavier McHenry

I’d kill ya for being a redneck retard making the white race look bad with fucktard comments like the one you just made. lol! But that’s about the only place anything is headed to kill white people. Dipshit.

Margaret Worrall

You are the one trying to turn this into propaganda, Stop hatemongering you moron!

Karen Barnes

The article does not properly explain blood cell genetics. O Rh negative blood types are the universal donor. They have no antigens on the surface of their blood cells. This means that antibodies are not formed towards these cells. However A, B and AB and Rhesus positive blood types will cause the O neg type person to mount a response to kill the cells and these types cannot be used for transfusion or the O neg patient will die. In the case of an O Rh neg mum and Rh pos baby the mum’s body begins to create antibodies to the baby as its blood is like any invader. Mums are given an injection of Anti D antibodies which ” mop up” the baby’s cells in her system so that her body doesn’t form antibodies which will remain to attack the next baby. “Blue babies” were common prior to 1966 when this “vaccine” was first used. AB and Rh pos genes are dominant and will manifest in a baby when one parent is positive. As to aliens, they must have had greyhound dogs as pets because they are the canine universal donor!

Margaret Worrall

It wasn’t meant as a genetics lesson, just an explanation of a theory.

Rebecca Wildsmith

Glad you talked about the O Rh neg mum & the problem only arising with the 2nd child, as that was what made me want to comment on. Maybe it was a ‘weird’, ancient form of natural contraception within their blood type? I’m writing stories here! Probably because I’m O Rh neg! I read years ago in a National Geographic magazine that O Negs possibly came from the island of Atlantis. The ‘population’ with the highest level of O Neg people is the Basque Country. I also have Basque blood & green eyes. I found the protein thing very interesting… Is that why I’m often cold?

Barbara Bush

Something many people don’t know is that a Type O (and in my personal case O positive) female can have the same experience when having a baby with type A, B or AB blood as well. When I gave birth to my 3rd son (the second one born with Type A positive) He had to be treated just as a baby with a positive blood type would be treated if born to an Rh negative mom. There is no vaccine or treatment for this specific anomaly. In the days of less modern medicine, I would have lost this child within 3 days of his birth.

Xavier McHenry

I would laugh my ass off over this, but I have to take into account that there is more proof that aliens exist and are doing weird things with us than there is God existing…in fact there is no proof whatsoever that a god exists save in written fear propaganda from the time.

Jacqui Killick

Classified documents have started being released lately confirming first contact, and the Vatican has gone so far as stating that alien theories do not interfere with their beliefs. Makes me wonder if they will then reveal their possession of the giant skeletons in their possession, those excavated in the 1700’s … But when I wonder will the USA finally admit publicly that they have had contact? I have been researching some of the classified information in these past months, thinking that the USA cannot maintain their secrecy for too much longer.

Nolan Bad Heart Bull

I am from Pine Ridge, SD. I am of Lakota Sioux decent and I believe the RH Negative Blood types are of Alien decent…I was told by someone, who I have GREAT RESPECT for, that the Aliens that came long ago (and are still here/around today) are a precursor of us and that they have tried to fix their DNA because they are dying out. The truth of the matter is; The RH Negative blood types are the ones who were and are descendants of those who were abducted by the Aliens that have tried to fix their DNA. Just know they are watching. Legend has it that we are in the Fourth (4th) world. The First (1st) was ruled by Black man, which like nowadays, who prospered and greed became rampant. Then their world was destroyed by Fire. The second (2nd) world was ruled by the Yellow man, same story, prospered and greed set in. The 2nd was destroyed by Ice. The Third (3rd) was ruled by the Red man. Same story, prospered and greed set in and the 3rd was destroyed by water. Now we are in the 4th world, as you may have noticed the prosper and now the greed of people and nations are becoming more and more detrimental to this planet. The Legend has said this 4th world will be destroyed by all the past three worlds; Fire, Ice, and Water not in that order but you can think of melting ice, nuclear weapons, and the afterm athletes of the Nukes being used will be Cold weather possible ice age!!! Get in touch with your inner being and spirit because you might come back after you die.

Janet Witt

You have any ideas how I can get ready.Seems everything I have ever known was just a big fat lie.

TexasOlTimer

My granddaughter saw this article and sent me the link telling me “YOU IS AN ALIEN!” Yup, if the article is right. I always thought I was just strange! 🙂 (and no comments on her grammar – she was just showing that it’s a fun article).

Angela

Hi there i,m a RHS O,i have red hair and hazel eye,s,both my parents had a different blood type to my own. My mother was an O poss, and my father was A poss.So on that alone means that at least one of them would have to be an alien to have me.And before people say that they were,nt my parents. They were.

Mandiii Hammond

You have 2 blood factors in your blood and you get one from each parent. If O is positive and o is negative, your mum would be Oo and your dad would be Ao. You could of been any number if blood types but for you, you got a double negative oo, one from each parent

Jimmy

Trash. Can’t explain the specifics of something? Must be aliens. Probably not the first thing to jump to.

Libby

are you trying to say i am not an alien! 🙁

Nicolette Meyer

Some of my neighbours used to think I was – but they were just b***y racists!

imast

It’s a theory, as clearly stated with “may be” not “must be”. In real science ALL theories should be investigated equally and without prejudice, regardless of what makes you uncomfortable, or we would never learn anything. Did you know the Earth is round and orbits the sun yet? That was crazy not long ago also. Unless you have more to offer than trashy troll comments why bother? You can do that on youtube, imdb, facebook etc.

angie

I am O neg RH neg. I had the shot with my first one while pregnant and never again. Luckily my husband is also RH neg so it wasn’t necessary. I was told I would need it during and after every pregnancy if he was positive as each pregnancy would be more dangerous than the the one before. As for the donor part, a person with O neg Rh neg can donate to anyone with negative blood types, especially the Rh neg groups. O positive Rh positive can donate to anyone with positive blood types, again especially the Rh positive groups. O blood is the universal donor but you still need to be careful with the positive and negative parts and the Rh factor. If you give a Rh neg person a blood transfusion from a Rh positive universal donor, especially a woman, it is risking her chances of being able to have a child. As for the alien part, come on. If they cant figure something out the first thing they say is “Alien related”. Give me a break.

now days are different in pregnancy. ladies are forced to get the shot. I know cause my husband and I are both rh negative and I didn’t have a choice on the shot. I try getting out of it last year and they gave me a choice of getting the shot or I was out on not having an ob doctor. all 4 of my children are rh negative.

Rebecca Wildsmith

Your 4 children could only be Rh negative as both parents are. A child can only be the same blood type as the mother or the father, they can’t be anything else. That’s what I was taught.

jan v

Rebecca Wildsmith

Obviously assumed paternity. Years ago, many ‘parents’ found out a child was not their’s through blood testing.

Dirty_Martini

You should have called a lawyer, because this was sheer medical malpractice. You may end up one day later with an autoimmune disorder, because giving an unnecessary BayRHO or RhoGAM shot suppresses a woman’s immune system for the rest of her life.

Jessie Robinette

The reason you were given the shot as a precaution is because the medical staff will not assume paternity. You and your husband may both be negative, but there is a chance that one’s spouse is not the bio father, and the bio father may be rh +. That is why clinics now often give rh – women the Rhogam shot as a precaution. It could be dangerous for the fetus not to do so, in the event of paternity being different than what is presented. My OBGYN was actually very upfront about this practice. They won’t risk a potential incompatibility issue simply because they’re potentially operating under false paternity info.

jan v

O- can donate to both – and +

Socks McRockin

I think it’s more likely that it was a harmless/benign mutation that took hold in Northern Europe. We have huge amounts of evidence that genetic mutation happens, whereas the evidence for alien life is less established.

jan v

possibly the winters were less harsh on people with lower body temps and that’s why that type survived better in that climate same goes with any different types maybe an AB+ with a higher body temp did better in hotter climes and were naturally more hardy there

Janet Witt

It’s weird I have everything they said Rh people have blue eyes sensitive to heat etc. but I am O- weird.

Laird-Jon

I’ve always thought my wife was strange but now I know she’s only an alien.

Bruce Wayne

Well, damn, why don’t the aliens send me the lottery numbers telepathically?

Manie

Other neurological effects of toxo infection are thought to include neuroticism. Rhesus – is greatest in Europe, where exposure to toxo, from wild cats was (originally) low compared to other geographic regions. In comes the domestic cat and exposure is now much higher. ‘Maybe the reason all the alien abductes are Rh- is actually a manifestation of the negative neurocognitive effects of toxo infection which are significantly greater in Rh- phenotypes. I.e. Your article is a load of total rubbish.

Hamid Kennedy

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runnerin1

I’m A-. The characteristics the article speaks on are spot on.

Truth-Teller

Another Racist propaganda article out here made to make out “African Americans” and any relative thereof as being dumb and Europeans aka White people as the superior intellectual race. This shit is getting sad.. It makes Asians out to have 1% of the “GOD-LIKE” blood type yet again implying they aren’t as intellectual as Europeans…when in all actuality, Every damn thing is made in china and Asian people are masters in mental intellect and projection. Most statistics regarding new inventions and elder inventions..White people have stolen from other races and Claimed it as there own…yet again creating lies to white-wash the entire globe…making europeans out to be something they’re not. This is very sad…when a bunch of self-centered racist journalist, novelist come together to spread untruth.

Bram Rhys Swarr

what the fuck are you on about, blood has nothing to do with intelligence… if statistically accurate data is all it takes to claim racism then its a problem with you.

Libby

yes every darn thing is made in China and it breaks within 5 minutes of getting it home! and that is not being racist it saying they make things on the cheap and their crap. If you see racism in this article then you are more racist than the average racist. Why oh why do people keep showing the racist card all the time even when they are totally wrong. honestly…grw up mun!

Dirty_Martini

Stop race baiting here, and blame it on the Nazis… they discovered Rh negative blood in 1937. And there are many blacks with Rh-Neg blood. President Obama is AB-Negative.

Steven

Just because Asians are making damned near everything does not make them super geniuses. That which they make we whites invented and that makes us special .

Bram Rhys Swarr

don’t we all wish it were aliens, only our primitive, bloodthirsty species could not handle it. see the opening for the episode “In A Mirror, Darkly” in Star Trek Enterprise.

Libby

I always knew i was different……im special…..an alien! hahahahahaha

Ken M

I think its actually spelled racist

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Surette

I was born with RH negative blood and it was killing me so I had to have a complete transfusion when I was about an hr. old. My Rh negative was killing me so How do people survive the first hrs of their lives without deadly consequences?

ratmand

This is freaky because my dad had this blood type. Am I part alien?

jeffsprague1

Ramona Ray

errr I am not a stinkin alien nor am I a lizard sheesh get a grip someone just figure it out please.

Annoyed student

There is no such thing as a rhesus blood antigen group Rhesus is a kind of monkey that was experimented on along with rodents when trying to discover clinically significant blood group antigens The Rh (not short for rhesus!) blood group consists of 3 genes that code for D, then E, e, C, c antigens, and a protein that ensures their correct expression If this gene is missing due to deletion the they are Rh null and cannot express any of the above antigens The author appears to be talking about the D antigen only There are also other clinically significant blood group antigens that may be present on their cell surface which can cause HTR or HDFN other than D! Stop writing absolute nonsense!

Glen Eagles

I’m A RH Negative, guess that makes me an Alien lol

Nicolette Meyer

Are you barmy? I do not believe in Angels, fallen or otherwise. I don’t think I’m an alien either. I adore the sun and often flee Europe for the heat in the winter. I am a brunette with green eyes. Am O Rh -. Unfortunetly can’t donate as am taken medication.

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Discussions have already begun how will the vaccines be made available to all those who need it." "The government will leave no stone unturned to ensure people of India and international community have access to an Indian vaccine as early as possible. Every possible facilitation will be ensured making sure trials conducted scientifically and ethically, and we arrive at an affordable option," he added. The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that "aggressive" testing is necessary to reduce the spread of coronavirus in the country. "Aggressive testing is necessary to bring down COVID-19 positivity rate; the aim is to maintain this level of testing so as to bring down positivity rate below 5 percent," said Rajesh Bhushan, OSD, Health Ministry. He added that 19 States and Union Territories are performing more than 140 tests per day per million population. Delhi's sero-prevalence study has discovered that 23.48 percent of the people have been affected by the novel coronavirus in the national capital, which has several pockets of dense population. The Centre has written to all states and union territories warning against the use of N-95 masks with valved respirator by people, saying these don't prevent the virus from spreading out and are 'detrimental' to the measures adopted for its containment. India reports 37,148 new cases, taking its total count to 11,55,191. The toll rises by 587 to 28,084. Total active cases are now more than 4 lakh. The Serum Institute of India says it will seeking to get the licence to manufacture the vaccine developed at the Oxford University, reports NDTV. The vaccine has been found to be both effective and safe in early trials, according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet. The total number of coronavirus cases crossed 11 lakh with a single-day spike of 40,425 cases on Monday, while the toll rose to 27,497 with 681 new casualties reported. It is the first time the number of new cases registered was above 40,000. The total tally of 11,18,043 cases includes 3,90,459 active cases and 7,00,087 cured/discharged/migrated patients and the toll. The health ministry said that the recovery rate is now 62.62 percent. Meanwhile, a vaccine candidate developed at the University of Oxford has shown encouraging results in early human testing and appears to be "safe well-tolerated, and immunogenic", according to a study published in The Lancet on Monday. Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine produces 'strong antibodies', shows initial study Trials by the Oxford University involving 1,077 people showed that the injection led to them making antibodies and white blood cells that can fight coronavirus. The vaccine, named 'ChAdOx1 nCoV-19', has been made from a harmless virus called 'chimpanzee cold virus'. "Our preliminary findings show that the candidate ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine given as a single dose was safe and tolerated, despite a higher reactogenicity profile than the control vaccine, MenACWY," the researchers, led by Pedro M Folegatti and Katiet Ewer, wrote in the study. "No serious adverse reactions to ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 occurred. The majority of adverse events reported were mild or moderate in severity, and all were self-limiting," the study said. The clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on humans began in April. The human vaccine trial has been developed by scientists at Oxford University's Jenner Institute. Reportedly, the scientists also said that they "found their experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a dual immune response in people aged 18 to 55 that lasted at least two months after they were immunised". The study showed that the vaccine induced strong antibody and T-cell immune responses up to day 56 of the ongoing trial. “We are seeing good immune response in almost everybody,” said Dr Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University. “What this vaccine does particularly well is trigger both arms of the immune system,” he said. ICC postpones Men's T20 World Cup due to COVID-19 pandemic The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the postponement of this year's Men's T20World Cup in Australia due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The T20 World Cup was slated to be played in Australia from 18 October to 15 November this year. "The IBC Board (the commercial subsidiary of the ICC) agreed to continue to monitor the rapidly changing situation (regarding coronavirus pandemic) and assess all the information available in order to make a considered decision on future hosts to ensure the sport is able to stage safe and successful global events in 2021 and 2022," ICC said in a statement. "The IBC Board will also continue to evaluate the situation in relation to being able to stage the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2021 in New Zealand in February next year. In the meantime, planning for this event continues as scheduled," the statement added. ICC Chief Executive Manu Sawhney said their number one priority was to protect the health and safety of everyone involved in the sport. Delhi seems to have reached COVID-19 peak, says AIIMS chief Certain areas of Delhi have hit their peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, while certain other areas in the city are yet to reach the peak, said AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria on Monday. He added that there is not much evidence of community transmission happening at the national level. "Certain areas have hit their peak in COVID-19 cases. Delhi seems to have done so because the cases have declined significantly. Certain areas have yet to reach the peak. They will reach the peak a little later," Guleria said, while addressing a press conference. The National Capital had witnessed a surge in the cases of novel coronavirus cases over the past one month. However, the number of active cases has seen a dip over the past few weeks. Bengal govt to enforce lockdown for two days every week In light of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the state, the West Bengal government announced a lockdown in the state for two days every week starting from 23 July. In a press meet, the West Bengal home secretary said, "There will be a two-day complete lockdown every week starting from Thursday. Lockdown will be on Thursday and Saturday this week. This lockdown has been imposed in addition to running a broad-based containment zone approach." The two days of lockdown will be decided on a weekly basis. "All views have been taken into account and it has been decided the days for the lockdown will be announced each week. There will be complete lockdown in offices and transport," the official added. State-wise cases and deaths Maharashtra reported 176 deaths and 8,240 new COVID-19 cases on Monday. The total count of cases now stands at 3,18,695, including 1,75,029 recovered cases and 1,31,334 active cases. Meanwhile, Mumbai reported 1,043 new COVID-19 cases, 965 cured patients and 41 deaths. The total number of cases in the city stands at 1,02,267, including 23,865 active cases, 72,650 discharged patients and 5,752 deaths. A total 4,985 COVID-19 cases and 70 deaths were reported in Tamil Nadu. The total number of cases has risen to 1,75,678, including 51,348 active cases and 2,551 deaths. Delhi reported 954 new COVID-19 positive cases, 1,784 recovered /discharged/migrated patients and 35 deaths. The total count of cases has risen to 1,23,747 including 1,04,918 recovered/discharged/migrated and 3,663 deaths. Karnataka reported 3,648 COVID-19 cases and 72 deaths, taking active cases to 42,216 and toll to 1,403. Kerala reported 794 COVID-19 cases on Monday, taking the number of active cases to 7,611. A total of 5,618 patients have been discharged so far in the state. Punjab reported 411 new COVID-19 positive cases and eight deaths. The total number of cases has risen to 10,510, including 3,130 active cases, 7,118 discharged patients and 262 deaths. Telangana recorded 1,198 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths. The total count of cases has risen to 46,274, including 11,530 active cases and 422 deaths. Uttar Pradesh reported 1,924 COVID-19 cases and 46 deaths in the last 24 hours. The active cases stand at 19,137 and the toll has risen to 1,192. A total of 30,831 patients have been discharged so far. Rajasthan reported 956 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths till 8.30 pm on Monday. The total number of cases has risen to 30,390, including 7,627 active cases and 568 patients have died due to the disease. A total of 998 COVID-19 cases and 20 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours in Gujarat. The state's count of cases has risen to 49,439, including 11,613 active cases, 35,659 cured/discharged patients and 2,167 deaths. Manipur's COVID-19 case count has risen to 1,925 with 14 new cases reported today. The number of recovered cases is 1,320 and there are 605 active cases. With inputs from agencies

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