UK Resilience

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Sat, 2011-01-22 09:18 — mdmcdonald

The mission of this working group is explore and understand what the U.K. resilience movement is about, and how its knowledge base and guiding principles might be of assistance to Resilience Systems and Resilience Networks around the world.

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Britain’s Gamble on Few Virus Restrictions is being tested by increases in infections, deaths

Fri, 2021-10-22 10:29 — mike kraft

LONDON — For the last four months, Britain has run a grand epidemiological experiment, lifting virtually all coronavirus restrictions, even in the face of a high daily rate of infections. Its leaders justified the approach on the grounds that the country’s rapid rollout of vaccines had weakened the link between infection and serious illness.

Now, with cases, hospital admissions and deaths all rising again; the effect of vaccines beginning to wear off; and winter looming, Britain’s strategy of learning to live with the virus is coming under its stiffest test yet.

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Explanation: What is the ‘delta plus’ variant of the coronavirus?

Fri, 2021-10-22 10:02 — mike kraft

What is the 'delta plus' variant of the coronavirus? What is the “delta plus” variant? It’s a relative of the delta variant, identified by British scientists last month. Because it isn't a variant of interest or concern, it has not yet been officially named after a letter of the Greek alphabet, like the other worrisome variants. AP NEWS

What is the “delta plus” variant?

It’s a relative of the delta variant, identified by British scientists last month.

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Europe was the only region with rise in COVID-19 last week --WHO

Wed, 2021-10-20 10:21 — mike kraft

WHO: Europe the only region with rise in COVID-19 last week LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said there was a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week, the only region in the world where cases increased. In its weekly assessment of the pandemic released late Tuesday, the U.N. AP NEWS

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said there was a 7% rise in new coronavirus cases across Europe last week, the only region in the world where cases increased.

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Children fuel rise in English COVID cases after slow vaccine start

Tue, 2021-10-19 11:37 — mike kraft

Children fuel English COVID case rise after slow vaccine start The spread of COVID-19 among children in England is fuelling a rise in cases nationally and causing concern among some scientists that vaccines are being rolled out in schools too slowly, risking the welfare of children and adults alike. Alistair Smout Reuters

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A new variant spreading in the UK could be 10% more infectious than Delta

Tue, 2021-10-19 10:05 — mike kraft

Scientists are closely tracking a new variant spreading in the UK that could be 10% more infectious than Delta The new variant, AY.4.2, is descendant of the Delta variant. Cases are low outside the UK, and we don't if its mutations change its behaviour. Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce YahooNews

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English school return showed more COVID in children, but cases fell in adults - study

Thu, 2021-10-14 11:12 — mike kraft

English school return spurred COVID in children, but cases fell in adults - study COVID-19 infections in children in England rose in September after schools returned from summer holidays, helping to keep cases high even as there was a fall among adults, a large prevalence study showed on Thursday. Alistair Smout Reuters

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UK report says country's slow COVID lockdown cost thousands of lives

Tue, 2021-10-12 10:01 — mike kraft

Report says UK’s slow virus lockdown cost 1000s of lives

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s failure to impose a lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic cost thousands of unnecessary deaths and ranks among the country’s worst public health blunders, lawmakers concluded Tuesday in the nation’s first comprehensive report on the pandemic.

The deadly delay derived from the failure of British government ministers to question the recommendations of scientific advisers, resulting in a dangerous level of “groupthink” that caused them to dismiss the more aggressive strategies adopted in East and Southeast Asia to limit infections, the report said. ...

ALSO SEE: UK's early response worst public health failure ever, MPs say --BBC

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Real-world U.K. hospital study: filters clean COVID-causing virus from air; new filter designs

Thu, 2021-10-07 17:03 — mike kraft

Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air

Research at a hospital swamped by people with COVID-19 has confirmed that portable air filters effectively remove SARS-CoV-2 particles from the air — the first such evidence in a real-world setting¹. The results suggest that air filters could be used to reduce the risk of patients and medical staff contracting SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals, the study’s authors say....

ALSO SEE: New air purifiers filter at least 90% of COVID-carrying particles

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School absences related to COVID-19 jump sharply in England

Wed, 2021-10-06 12:46 — mike kraft

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More 'complex EU’ leads Europe to diverge from US on coronavirus vaccine booster recomendations

Wed, 2021-10-06 12:23 — mike kraft

‘Complex EU’ leads Europe to diverge from US on coronavirus vaccine booster Europe’s vaccine rollout is slightly different from the US program, and this played into the broader opinion by the EMA. POLITICO

The world's two leading medicines regulators have reached different decisions on a third dose of the BioNTech/Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine — and it’s partly because of the complexity of the EU, according to the European Medicines Agency.

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