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Pay to play – Vaccine delays due to payment – Pfizer halts corona vaccine shipments to Israel after failure to pay – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

“Pfizer has halted shipments of coronavirus vaccines to Israel in outrage over the country failing to approve transfer of payment for the last 2.5 million vaccines it supplied to the country, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Senior officials at Pfizer have said they are concerned that the government-in-transition will not pay up and the company does not want to be taken advantage of. They said that they do not understand how such a situation can occur in an organized country.”

Not the best news – not sure if hyperbole or fact – no study pointed out in article – These People Are Now Major COVID Spreaders, Virus Expert Says | Eat This Not That

“A more infectious COVID-19 variant is now being easily spread by a group that had been relatively unaffected by the pandemic—children, said epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, on Sunday. “

“Osterholm noted that in Minnesota in the last two weeks, 749 schools had reported COVID cases. "Anywhere you look where you see this emerging, you see that kids are playing a huge role in the transmission of this," he said. "All the things that we had planned for about kids in schools with this virus are really no longer applicable. We’ve got to take a whole new look at this issue." Last week in neighboring Michigan, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services said that new COVID-19 cases in children younger than 10 rose by 230%, higher than any other age group. Children and young adults aged 10 to 19 saw a 227% rise in cases. “Much of the rise in pediatric cases can be linked to the reopening of schools and youth sports,” CBS News reported.

Osterholm said that B.1.1.7 is 50 to 100 percent more transmissible than previous strains of the coronavirus and causes 50 to 60 percent more severe illness. "The only good news about this," he noted, "is that the current vaccines are effective against this particular variant."

COVID tends to cause only mild illness in children, but those with underlying health conditions are at greater risk for severe illness. And as Osterholm noted, children can spread the disease to older adults who are more susceptible to complications.”

As noted over a week ago there is something going on in India – and likely not good – India reports national record 103,558 new Covid cases in 24 hours | Coronavirus | The Guardian

“India recorded 103,558 new Covid cases on Monday, its biggest ever one-day figure, data from the health ministry showed – taking the national total to 12.59 million cases.

The country added 478 new deaths, raising the toll to 165,101.

India has the world’s third-highest number of cases after the US, with 30 million, and Brazil, with just under 13 million.

Single-day infections have been rising since early February when they fell to below 9,000 after peaking at almost 100,000 in September.

India’s wealthiest state, Maharashtra, home to the financial capital, Mumbai, will impose a weekend lockdown and night curfew on its 110 million people in response to the rise in cases, authorities announced on Sunday.”

India still has long way to go confirmed per capita can easily double from the current level – Brazil continues to lead death

The only good thing for India is the deaths are still low compared to Brazil.

NY leads both confirmation and deaths

Looks like only FL and NY reported or it is very centralized to those two areas.

NM is almost there at herd immunity levels at least on a single dose basis