COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (9 Viewers)

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So Bel Edwards lifted the mask mandate for Louisiana but states that businesses may still enforce mask policy government buildings will still require masks.
 
Eeyore said:
m.dw.com

India to allow pilgrimage despite COVID surge – DW – 04/26/2021

Critics have said the annual Amarnath pilgrimage could lead to a devastating wave of the coronavirus in India-administered Kashmir, which has underequipped health care facilities.
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A lot of this being outside will help but this asking for trouble.
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They have been having religious, cultural, and political gatherings (large!) for weeks. Holi was a month ago. Cases were at 60K then. Now they're >200K.

www.aljazeera.com

In Pictures: India celebrates Holi as COVID cases surge

For second consecutive year, people encouraged to stay home to avoid turning the festivities into superspreader events.
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Some good info on the India situation in this article, including discussion of the role of variants.

India’s worries have focused on a homegrown variant called B.1.617. The public, the popular press and many doctors have concluded that it is responsible for the severity of the second wave.

Researchers outside of India say the limited data so far suggests instead that a better-known variant called B.1.1.7 may be a more considerable factor. That variant walloped Britain late last year, hit much of Europe and is now the most common source of new infection in the United States

“While it’s almost certainly true B.1.617 is playing a role, it’s unclear how much it’s contributing directly to the surge and how that compares to other circulating variants, especially B.1.1.7,” said Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.

Beyond the variants, scientists believe there are other, possibly more obvious factors that could be powering India’s deadly second wave.

India has just scraped the surface in terms of vaccinating its population, with less than 2 percent fully vaccinated. Experts also blame lax public behavior after last year’s first wave and missteps by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, such as recently holding large political rallies that may have spread the disease and sent a message to the people that the worst was over.

“There is a lot of jumping to conclusions that B.1.167 is the explanation for what’s happening,” said Jeffrey Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Britain. “These other things are probably more likely to be the explanation.”
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www.nytimes.com

India Blames a Virus Variant as Its Covid-19 Crisis Deepens (Published 2021)

Doctors, the public and the media point to anecdotal evidence of infections even among the vaccinated. Scientists say the data is too thin and cite other reasons behind the country’s second wave.
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Note the vast difference in all age groups between covid related deaths and influenza. Some may be comingled with pneumonia.

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Breaking down covid deaths by age. Focusing on 15-54.

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